Between 1902 and 1917, the Gramophone Company of London sent several of their recording engineers on epic journeys across the southern regions of the Tsarist Russian Empire, where they recorded the various cultures and ethnic groups they encountered. What resulted was an intimate view of pre-Soviet life, from the Caucasus mountains to the deserts of Russian Turkestan, in the form of several thousand commercial gramophone discs.The names of many of the recording artists have passed into legend…See More

This group is for anyone interested in speech-to-text and voice recognition systems. Technologies that can convert the spoken word into text are growing in number, from voice-activated commands for smartphones to the conversion of digital speech archives into readable and searchable text.The particular focus of this group is the conversion of speech archives. It is interested in the competing technologies, cost-effective models for archives and libraries, and the uses of transcribed speech…See More

This group discusses content available on the British Library Sounds website.See More