H O M E

Purpose

The primary purpose of the Woefzela Android application is to record a list of prompts by a number of different speakers. The resultant output is then intended to be used as training and/or testing data (audio and associated transcriptions) for building Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Systems in the selected language.

Woefzela was developed as part of the NCHLT Project by the Human Language Technology Unit at CSIR Meraka, South Africa.

Requirements

Woefzela requires Android version 2.1-update1 or higher.

The application has been tested on the following devices, but should work on most Android devices:

• HTC Magic running Android 2.1-update1 (CyanogenMod-5.0.8-DS)
• HTC Dream running on Android 2.2 (CyanogenMod-6.0.0-DS-RC1)
• HTC Wildfire A3333 running on Android 2.2.1 (stock)
• Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 running on Android 2.3.3 (stock)

Software dependencies

The application FileManager-1.1.3 is currently a software dependency used via an Intent from within Woefzela. This application may be obtained from http://code.google.com/p/openintents/downloads/detail?name=FileManager-1.1.3.apk.

Installation

Refer to the User Guide tab for download and installation information.

Important Notice

Please note that due to the sensitive information contained in both Fieldworker and Respondent profiles on the SD cards used for recordings, access to this information should be carefully controlled. It is suggested that these profiles be often removed from the SD cards and archived in an access-controlled location.

License Agreement

Copyright (c) 2011 CSIR, Meraka, South Africa Contributors: - The Department of Arts and Culture, The Government of South Africa. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.