Introduction to Speech Processing

This is a collection of pedagogical material within the topic of speech and language technology. The idea is to provide teachers material for their courses, where they can pick and choose material which is appropriate for their own courses and self-study material on-line for anyone interested.

Authors:  Tom Bäckström,  Okko Räsänen,  Abraham Zewoudie,  Pablo Pérez Zarazaga,  Liisa Koivusalo
Updated:  2022-01-27
Source:  https://wiki.aalto.fi/display/ITSP/Introduction+to+Speech+Processing
Keywords:  speech,  language,  communication,  education,  machine-learning,  English

Speech Banana

Speech Banana is a training application for people learning to hear with a cochlear implant or digital hearing aid. It is designed to build the skills needed for understanding everyday speech.

Authors:  Tilak Ratnanather,  Joanne,  Margo,  Rohit,  Lindsey,  Bruce,  Aditya,  Seung Wook,  Inez,  Edric,  Sungho,  Ben,  Mitra
Updated:  2021-06-30
Source:  http://speechbanana.jhu.edu/
Keywords:  speech-recognition,  communication,  cochlear-implants,  auditory-training,  English,  Korean

The Model Talker System

The ModelTalker System converts plain English text to speech. It uses recorded speech (either from a prospective SGD user or from a voice donor chosen by or for the SGD user) to create a unique synthetic voice.

Authors:  H. Timothy Bunnell,  Jason Lilley,  Matthew Buzzell,  Maxwell Schmid,  Bill Moyers,  Derek Freer
Updated:  2020-06-25
Source:  https://www.modeltalker.org/
Keywords:  language,  communication,  speech,  phonology,  morphology,  English

ASL-CDI 2.0

The ASL-CDI 2.0 is an updated American Sign Language adaptation of the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventory. It is an assessment of early vocabulary knowledge in children learning American Sign Language.

Authors:  Naomi Caselli,  Jennie Pyers,  Amy Lieberman
Updated:  2020-04-30
Source:  https://www.aslcdi.org/
Keywords:  vocabulary,  language-development,  communication,  American-Sign-Language,  English

Corpus of Dutch Sign Language

The NGT is a collection data from deaf signers using Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT).

Authors:  Onno Crasborn,  Inge Zwitserlood,  Johan Ros
Updated:  2020-04-30
Source:  https://www.corpusngt.nl/
Keywords:  language,  communication,  Dutch-Sign-Language

BilingBank

BilingBank is a component of TalkBank dedicated to providing corpora for the study of multilingualism.

Authors:  Brian MacWhinney
Updated:  2018-05-04
Source:  https://biling.talkbank.org/
Keywords:  bilingual,  multilingualism,  language,  communication,  English

Nijmegen Corpus of Spanish English

Around 38 hours of high-quality recordings featuring 34 Spanish speakers from Madrid talking in English to two Dutch confederates, in an informal and in a formal setting.

Authors:  Mirjam Ernestus,  Huib Kouwenhoven
Updated:  2018-04-06
Source:  https://mirjamernestus.nl/Ernestus/NCSE/index.php
Keywords:  language,  communication,  speech,  English

Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Lexical Sophistication

TAALES is a tool that measures over 400 classic and new indices of lexical sophistication, and includes indices related to a wide range of sub-constructs.

Authors:  Kristopher Kyle,  Scott Crossley,  Cynthia Berger
Updated:  2018-02-08
Source:  https://www.linguisticanalysistools.org/taales.html
Keywords:  language,  lexicon,  communication,  English

RHDBank

RHDBank is used for the study of language in right hemisphere damage.

Authors:  Brian MacWhinney
Updated:  2017-08-30
Source:  https://rhd.talkbank.org/
Keywords:  language,  communication,  brain,  English,  Spanish

TBIBank

TBIBank is used for the study of language in traumatic brain injury.

Authors:  Brian MacWhinney
Updated:  2017-08-30
Source:  https://tbi.talkbank.org/
Keywords:  language,  communication,  brain-injury,  English