Operation LiLi
Using Crowd-Sourced Data and Automatic Alignment to Investigate the Phonetics and Phonology of Less-Resourced Languages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900746 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mathilde Hutin (0000-0002-6411-5478, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique), Marc Allassonnière-Tang (0000-0002-9057-642X, Musée de l'Homme) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 234 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages7030234 |
| OpenAlex | W4295977671 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
Less-resourced languages are usually left out of phonetic studies based on large corpora. We contribute to the recent efforts to fill this gap by assessing how to use open-access, crowd-sourced audio data from Lingua Libre for phonetic research. Lingua Libre is a participative linguistic library developed by Wikimedia France in 2015. It contains more than 670k recordings in approximately 150 languages across nearly 740 speakers. As a proof of concept, we consider the Inventory Size Hypothesis, which predicts that, in a given system, variation in the realization of each vowel will be inversely related to the number of vowel categories. We investigate data from 10 languages with various numbers of vowel categories, i.e., German, Afrikaans, French, Catalan, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Basque. Audio files are extracted from Lingua Libre to be aligned and segmented using the Munich Automatic Segmentation System. Information on the formants of the vowel segments is then extracted to measure how vowels expand in the acoustic space and whether this is correlated with the number of vowel categories in the language. The results provide valuable insight into the question of vowel dispersion and demonstrate the wealth of information that crowd-sourced data has to offer
German · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Phonetics · Realization (probability · Romanian · Speech recognition · Vowel · Computer Science · Mathematics · Music and Audio Processing · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Speech Recognition and Synthesis · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |