Speech Technology Services for Oral History Research
This work provides tools for oral history researchers to transcribe and structure recordings, but it is incremental as it builds on existing methods like Whisper.
The paper addresses the application of speech technology services, including transcription portals and web services, to process oral history recordings for transcription and structuring, but does not report specific results or numbers.
Oral history is about oral sources of witnesses and commentors on historical events. Speech technology is an important instrument to process such recordings in order to obtain transcription and further enhancements to structure the oral account In this contribution we address the transcription portal and the webservices associated with speech processing at BAS, speech solutions developed at LINDAT, how to do it yourself with Whisper, remaining challenges, and future developments.