From: Ivan V. <iv...@gm...> - 2014-11-13 13:27:07
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Hi Claude, thank you very much for your answer. I understand,I dont expect automatic audio processing,but automatic help,for example, if a transcriber cuts the segment while there is voice, instead in a silence period, cutting part of the voice, is not possible to get the program to move the segment some milimeters automatically, leaving the separation in a silence period rather than while speakers are talking?. I dont mean to recognize the words, just to help making the transcription better, by detecting sound and silence, or two different channels of voice.Are you one of Transcriber 1.5.1 developers? Thank you again,regards. On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Claude Barras <Cla...@li...> wrote: > Le 06/11/2014 17:25, Ivan Vanney a écrit : > >> Hi dear, im new in this list. I work for a company which uses Transcriber >> 1.5.1 for transcription. We use specific rules like for example, we dont >> transcribe overlapping but apply a [tag] instead, but 100% of accuracy is >> impossible with human transcribers and sometimes a transcribers doesnt >> apply the tag and instead transcribes. >> Is there a way the program may recognize when there are two noises or >> voices automatically?, we would hire a developer to carry this out. >> Thank you,kindest regards. >> >> Hi, > > Transcriber wasn't designed for performing automatic audio processing, but > instead to help human annotation (in order to develop automatic analysis > systems using statistical machine learning) - however nothing prevents from > using an automatic pre-processing and feed it as initial annotation. > > Concerning overlapping speech or noises, it is an interesting but quite > difficult problem, especially if you can't rely on multiple microphones for > beamforming and source separation. It is far from a solved research problem > even if some solution do exists - look eg. at http://bass-db.gforge.inria. > fr/fasst/ . I doubt that currently an automatic detection would perform > better than a human one, but it may help focusing on some sections: I am > interested if ever you have a feedback on that! > > Best regards, > Claude Barras > > |