During these two workshops participants learn how to apply automatic speech recognition (ASR) to their own material. Arjan van Hessen, researcher language and speech technology, will discuss the available tools that you can use to achieve an optimal result. During the workshop, Whisper, an open-source speech recognition toolkit from OpenAI, will be used. The language to be recognized can be set as desired.

These are follow-up workshop to the introductory lecture on ASR that Van Hessen gave on March 16. However, you do not need to have attended the lecture to register for these workshops.

The workshops take place on:

• Tuesday 4 april, 9:30 – 12:30 hrs. Location: room 0.21, University Library City Centre (Drift 27, Utrecht)
• Wednesday 12 april: 9:30 – 12:30 hrs. Location: room 0.32, University Library City Centre (Drift 27, Utrecht)

The Centre for Digital Humanities aims to promote digital literacy amongst staff-members. When taking this course, the CDH will automatically settle a DCU compensation of 12 hours with your department, which equals 0,55 DCUs (this is double the actual time investment).