Book description
Provides an insightful and practical introduction to
crowdsourcing as a means of rapidly processing speech data
Intended for those who want to get started in the domain and learn
how to set up a task, what interfaces are available, how to assess the
work, etc. as well as for those who already have used crowdsourcing
and want to create better tasks and obtain better assessments of the
work of the crowd. It will include screenshots to show examples of
good and poor interfaces; examples of case studies in speech
processing tasks, going through the task creation process, reviewing
options in the interface, in the choice of medium (MTurk or other) and
explaining choices, etc.
- Provides an insightful and practical introduction to crowdsourcing
as a means of rapidly processing speech data.
- Addresses important aspects of this new technique that should be
mastered before attempting a crowdsourcing application.
- Offers speech researchers the hope that they can spend much less
time dealing with the data gathering/annotation bottleneck, leaving
them to focus on the scientific issues.
- Readers will directly benefit from the book's successful examples
of how crowd- sourcing was implemented for speech processing,
discussions of interface and processing choices that worked and
choices that didn't, and guidelines on how to play and record speech
over the internet, how to design tasks, and how to assess workers.
Essential reading for researchers and practitioners in speech
research groups involved in speech processing
