Note: this recognizer runs on a web server, the audio file will be uploaded using HTTP.

How to use the Fine Audio Segmentation recognizer from within ELAN

The Fine Audio Segmentation recognizer written by the Fraunhofer IAIS (Fraunhofer-Institut für Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme) analyzes an audio file to find coherent segments such as utterances. This can help further annotation by providing a draft segmentation of the recording. The output is also useful as input for various other recognizers which can for example classify or group the segments.

AVATecH and AUVIS compatible recognizers have the following categories of settings, input and output elements:

Your default ELAN configuration invokes a CLAM REST web service wrapper on catalog.clarin.eu to have your files analyzed. In other words, your media files and, if applicable, input tiers will be uploaded for processing and ELAN will process the downloaded (tier or other) results as if you had done the processing locally. For use in situations where a web service can not be used (too large files or no internet available) you can also request a copy of the recognizer for local installation on Linux or Windows, protected by USB dongle.

For this and for general support with the use of this recognizer, please contact auvis@mpi.nl or use the ELAN and AUVIS forums on the website of The Language Archive.

CLAM, ELAN and the client-side recognizer proxy are free open source software under the GNU General Public License - however, some of the recognizers can be propietary closed source software. Licenses for academic use are available on request. Use of the web services is free at the moment, but may be limited to the academic community if it becomes necessary.