Workshops
Speech & Tech organized a series of workshops, supported by CLARIN, aimed at exploring and developing approaches to working with spoken data across disciplines. The first workshop, held in Oxford in 2016, focused on assessing needs and practices related to opening up spoken archives and led to the formation of the network. Subsequent workshops in Utrecht and Arezzo (2016–2017) concentrated on the development of a transcription workflow for oral history interviews, including digitization, automatic speech recognition and transcription platforms. Later activities, such as the 2018 München workshop, expanded the scope to include annotation and analysis, with particular attention to the challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration and the integration of digital tools into research practices. Workshops were designed to combine hands-on experimentation with methodological reflection, aiming to bridge disciplinary boundaries and varying levels of technical expertise. Planned activities in 2020–2021 were partly interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with some initiatives continuing online. Overall, these workshops, together with related presentations and outputs, contributed to the development, testing and dissemination of tools and methods for the study of spoken data, including the Transcription Portal.
Publications (selection)
Ardolino, F., & Calamai, S. (2022). Isolamento linguistico e strategie comunicative a Ravensbrück: Le testimonianze dall’archivio sonoro di Anna Maria Bruzzone. L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria, 31(2), 59–82.
Calamai, S., Scagliola, S., Ardolino, F., Draxler, C., van Hessen, A., & van den Heuvel, H. (2022). Ravensbrück interviews: How to curate legacy data to make it CLARIN compliant. In M. Monachini & M. Eskevich (Eds.), Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021 (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, Vol. 189). Linköping University Electronic Press. https://doi.org/10.3384/9789179294441
Calamai, S., Beeken, J., van den Heuvel, H., Broekhuizen, M., van Hessen, A., Draxler, C., et al. (2021). Voices from Ravensbrück: Towards the creation of an oral and multilingual resource family. In Proceedings of the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021 (pp. 16–19). CLARIN ERIC.
Draxler, C., van den Heuvel, H., van Hessen, A., Calamai, S., Corti, L., & Scagliola, S. (2020). A CLARIN transcription portal for interview data. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020) (pp. 3346–3352).
van Hessen, A., Calamai, S., van den Heuvel, H., Scagliola, S., Karrouche, N., Beeken, J., Corti, L., & Draxler, C. (2020). Speech, voice, text, and meaning: A multidisciplinary approach to interview data through the use of digital tools. In Companion publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’20 Companion) (pp. 1–3). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3420054
Scagliola, S., Corti, L., Calamai, S., Karrouche, N., Beeken, J., van Hessen, A., Draxler, C., van den Heuvel, H., & Broekhuizen, M. (2019). Cross disciplinary overtures with interview data: Integrating digital practices and tools in the scholarly workflow. In Proceedings of the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019.
Scagliola, S., Corti, L., Calamai, S., Karrouche, N., Beeken, J., van Hessen, A., Draxler, C., van den Heuvel, H., Broekhuizen, M., & Truong, K. (2020). Cross disciplinary overtures with interview data: Integrating digital practices and tools in the scholarly workflow. In K. Simov & M. Eskevich (Eds.), Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019 (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, Vol. 172, pp. 126–136). https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp2020172