Toward Access to Multi-Perspective Archival Spoken Word Content

Oard, Douglas W.; Hansen, John H. L.; Sangawan, Abhijeet; Toth, Bryan; Kaushik, Lakshmish; Yu, Chengzhu

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49304-6_10

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“…The records stored by the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) were used to digitize the original analog tapes, by designing a new read-head for the SoundScriber player (as shown in Fig. 1) [2,4]. The read-head was developed specifically with the aim of digitizing the 30 channels simultaneously, thus preserving the synchronicity of the data, enabling individual channels from each HR1 and HR2 to be indexed and stored separately.…”

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“…To address and balance all the challenges [1,2,3,11,12,14,15] of the corpus, we try to achieve a similar difficulty distribution for the train, development, and test dataset. The general statistics about the dataset are described in Table 2.…”

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“…Of the six missions that completed the moon landings and brought the astronauts back to Earth, Apollo 11 was the first mission to carry out this operation, and holds special significance in many aspects, including from a technical and operational perspective. During the eight day mission, vast quantities of data such as audio, video, pictures and telemetry were collected [2,3]. Amongst these sources, analysis of audio and text serves as a special point of interest since the audio and text records are a comprehensive collection of complex interactions between all personnel including astronauts, mission control, and backroom staff.…”

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“…Amongst these sources, analysis of audio and text serves as a special point of interest since the audio and text records are a comprehensive collection of complex interactions between all personnel including astronauts, mission control, and backroom staff. These interactions were recorded on analog tape recorders, both to support subsequent engineering analysis and for historical purposes [2,27]. Through the UTD-CRSS Fearless Steps initiative, we were able to get access to these analog tapes.…”

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Fearless Steps: Apollo-11 Corpus Advancements for Speech Technologies from Earth to the Moon

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The Apollo Program is one of the most significant benchmarks for technology and innovation in human history. The previously introduced UTD-CRSS Fearless Steps initiative resulted in the digitization of the original analog audio tapes recorded during the Apollo Space Missions. The entire speech data for the Apollo 11 Mission is now being made publicly available with the release of the Fearless Steps Corpus. This corpus consists of a cumulative 19,000 hours of conversational speech spanning over thirty time-synchronized channels. With over six hundred speakers, the corpus has a rich collection of information which can be beneficial for research and advancement in the speech and language community. Recent efforts on this data have led to the generation of pipeline diarization transcripts for the entire speech corpus. Research has also been done to address speech and natural language tasks such as speech activity detection, speech recognition, and sentiment analysis. This paper provides an overview of the Fearless Steps Corpus and highlights the factors that make the processing of this data a challenging problem. To promote further development of algorithms for naturalistic data, five challenge tasks are also organized. We also describe the challenge tasks with details on a fully transcribed subset of the corpus, and initial results achieved by our systems.

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confidence: 99%