SPPAS offers open source cross-platform, customizable automatic annotation and analysis solutions for audio and video media.
SPPAS was awarded by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation at the 2022 Open Source Research Software Competition.
Brigitte Bigi is the author of SPPAS: she's a computer scientist, researcher at Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Honourable Mention to the Special Jury Prize
SPPAS produces automatically annotations from a recorded audio and its orthographic transcription and/or from a video.
SPPAS helps for the analysis of annotated files: statistics, requests, view and edit files to annotate manually.
SPPAS converts annotated files from/to a wide range of formats: xra, TextGrid, eaf, trs...
The editor page of the Graphical User Interface allows annotating manually. This interface is already offering an easy and powerful solution to modify labels of annotations. In 2023 release 4.14, it is possible to adjust boundaries of video annotations with a very high precision, in a convenient window displaying a sequence of three video frames.
SPPAS 4.2: The Edit page with an audio file, a video file, the manual orthographic transcription and 2 automatic annotations.
Cued speech keys generator was introduced the first time in version 3.9, August 2021.
Then, a Proof of Concept
(PoC) of an augmented reality system was firstly proposed in version 4.2,
January 2022.
The PoC will be turned into a stable version in 2023, then some models based on the analyses of CLeLfPC will be implemented (statistical distributions analyses, machine learning, ...).
This is part of a project funded by FIRAH.
The SPPAS software tool is reliable: the application performs the features that the documentation described. It can tolerate the user making mistakes or using the software in unexpected ways: in these situations, an error identifier with an error message is displayed. Its performances are good enough for the required uses cases, under the expected load and data volume.
SPPAS is installed on your computer: your corpus won't be transferred on the web. No statistics, no personal data are collected.
Its ongoing maintenance by the author: fixing bugs, keeping its systems operational, investigating failures, checking it on three platforms, modifying it for new use cases, adding new features and last but not least adding new language resources, updating the documentation and the website.
SPPAS is an open source
package.
You can edit the source code of the software tool,
you can modify it, you can re-distribute it, etc.
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Previously, SPPAS was partly supported by the following projects:
ORTOLANG receives state aid under the « Investissements d’avenir » program (ANR–11–EQPX–0032)
Multidimensional analyses and modeling (ANR-12-JCJC-JSH2-006-01)
a Multilingual approach (Campus France - Procore PHC)
In collaboration with PolyU (Campus France - Procore PHC)
a corpus-based study of the nature and functions of Naija in Nigeria (ANR-16-CE27-0007)
the training of language trainers in online environments using videoconferencing (ANR-18-CE28-0011)