The "Sprekend Nederland" project and its application to accent location
This work addresses accent analysis for linguistic or speech technology applications, but it is incremental as it focuses on data collection and conceptual frameworks rather than novel methods or results.
The paper describes the Sprekend Nederland data collection project and explores its application to Automatic Accent Location, which involves describing a speaker's accent based on their location and history, including discussions on description methods, task implications, and evaluation metrics.
This paper describes the data collection effort that is part of the project Sprekend Nederland (The Netherlands Talking), and discusses its potential use in Automatic Accent Location. We define Automatic Accent Location as the task to describe the accent of a speaker in terms of the location of the speaker and its history. We discuss possible ways of describing accent location, the consequence these have for the task of automatic accent location, and potential evaluation metrics.