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Monitoring

A monitored speech recording is a technique where the speaker is required to follow a strict `script' (i.e. reads a text) and a supervisor is present to ensure that the speaker does not deviate from the given `script'. If this is done systematically over the whole corpus you might skip the annotation part of your speech corpus production entirely6.2.

The following is partly taken from [2], p. 129:

``Monitoring is the task of controlling and modifying technical and phonetic characteristics on-line, i.e. during the course of a recording. Validation relates to an off-line (or post hoc) technical or phonetic evaluation of the material recorded. Two on-line monitoring paradigms can be distinguished: one in which any deviation or error is signaled to the experimenter only, and another one in which also the speaker is informed that a particular error has occurred. Some characteristics of recorded speech can only be evaluated after the recording has taken place. In the technical domain such characteristics are the signal-to-noise ratio for the whole material, and an analysis of noises that were recorded with the speech.''


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