SPPAS: Automatic Annotation of Speech

• Brigitte Bigi
• http://sldr.org/sldr000800/preview/

Install and update

• Install:

  1. Follow carefully instructions of the installation page for dependencies:
     • python 2.7.x
     • wxpython > 3.0
     • julius CSR engine
  2. Download the last package (a zip file)
  3. Unzip on your computer

• Update SPPAS regularly:

  1. Put the old package into the Trash
  2. Download and unpack the new one

GUI usage

• Open the file explorer of your system
• Go to the SPPAS folder location
• Windows: doucle-click on the sppas.bat file
• MacOS / Linux: double-click on the sppas.command file

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GUI usage

• Click on the 'Add File' button
• Explore the samples folder and choose as many audio files as expected
• All files with the same name as the selected audio files will be added into the list
• Click (and/or ctrl+click) on some files in this list
• Choose what you want to do with your selection (a component, automatic annotations, plugin)

GUI usage

Demo

Summary

• Basic concepts
• Selection of annotation software
• Corpus development methodology
• SPPAS

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