The Alveo Virtual Laboratory is an eResearch project funded under the Australian Government NeCTAR program to build a platform for collaborative eResearch around data representing human communication and the tools that researchers use in their analysis. The human communication science field is broadly defined to encompass the study of language from various perspectives but also […]
Presentation on Alveo for Digital Humanities Australasia 2014
This work by Peter Sefton, Steve Cassidy, Dominique Estival, Jared Berghold & Denis Burnham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This presentation about the HCS Vlab was delivered by Peter Sefton at Digital Humanities Australasia 2014 in Perth […]
Training a Speech Recogniser with HCS vLab
I just received a report from Matt Atcheson, one of our HDR testers at UWA, with the results of some work he’s done on evaluating the HTK integration with the HCS vLab. Matt used my template Python interface to download audio files from the vLab and feed them to the HTK training algorithms to train […]
HCS vLab: Presentation for eResearch Australasia 2013
This is a presentation by Dominique Estival, Steve Cassidy, Peter Sefton, Denis Burnham and Jared Berghold given at the eResearch Australasia 2013 Conference in Brisbane by Peter Sefton. The presentation is built around a demo of Version 2 of the lab by Steve Cassidy. […]
AeRO UX Review: HCS vLab
[This User Experience review of the HCS VLab code is posted with the permission of the Author and AeRO, the group who commissioned the review] Reviewer: Sam Wolski, eResearch Services, Griffith University s.wolski@griffith.edu.au OS: OSX 10.8.2 Browser: Chrome 29.0.1547.65 Test Case(s): Supplied ‘HCS vLab Testing August’ document. Preliminary Comments: The HCS vLab is easily one […]
HCS vLab Version 2.0 Screencast
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Q & A after demo of the HCS vLab at the Annual meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society (ALS) 2013
This page presents the answers to questions raised during the presentation on the HCS vLab at the Annual meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society (ALS 2013) in Melbourne on Friday 04/10/2013. 1) Is it possible to search by audio type and data types, e.g. sentences, words? For instance, in the Mitchell and Delbridge data, that information is in the file […]
Updated Demo Screencast
We’ve moved on a little since the first demo video. This screencast shows some of the new features as of the end of July including the AVOCES corpus, inline text and audio previews of items and the use of item lists. The demo also includes examples of using a simple concordance and frequency search based […]
HCS vLab Version 1.0 Screencast
This is a short screencast showing the capabilities of Version 1.0 of the HCS vLab platform. It includes demos of the web based corpus browsing interface that allows discovery of interesting corpus data and the Galaxy based workflow engine that allows the user to run some simple tools over the data. […]
Researcher Input
In late March and April, the HCSvLab team conducted eight interviews with researchers from a range of disciplines. This was done as a follow up to the survey we conducted earlier in the project. The aim of the interviews was to dig deeper and gain a better understanding of the needs of researchers in relation to the virtual laboratory. […]
