How to use WebMAUS from within ELAN
This only works:
- when you're online
- with mono .wav files of roughly 20 Mb or less
WebMAUS is a web service of BAS (Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals) that can be called by ELAN. It performs forced alignment of text to speech; audio and text are uploaded by ELAN, the processing is then performed on the server and the results are send back to ELAN as new tiers. The alignment is performed on the phone-level.
The user interface contains the following elements:
- Settings panel
- Language of the input: select the language of the speech and the orthographic transcription
- Service name: there is only one service available currently
- Text parameter name: a read-only value determined by the web service
- Signal parameter name: a read-only value determined by the web service
- Input panel
- Input audio file: here the audio file can be selected that will be uploaded. The list contains all wav
files that are linked to the transcription. The WebMAUS processor only accepts mono wave files.
It can take up to an hour to process a file of around 20 Mb.
- Orthographic tier (text): there are two valid ways of selecting the orthographic transcription:
- tier: select one of the tiers in the dropdown list
- file: select a plain text file containing the transcription from the file system
- Orthographic tier (text): this is the same as the file option in the previous Orthographic tier item.
These two Orthographic tier options are mutually exclusive, use only one of them.