SATT: Semi-automatic transcription tool

After collection and proper storage of speech data, transcription is the next essential task for speech researchers and engineers. It´s also very well known to the speech community that speech data transcription is very laborious and time consuming job, though it´s the most important part of building Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. At this juncture, an automated transcription tool is necessary to resolve this problem. This paper presents a Semi-Automatic speech data Transcription Tool (SATT) developed mainly for resource creation purpose of ASR system building. The tool facilitates the manual checking and verification process of speech data transcription. Speech recognition engine is also included as a part of this tool. Detail functionalities with transcription remarks and working steps of the tool are elaborately discussed in this paper. SATT will speed up the transcription process, minimize manual errors, efforts and will create wealthy resources for statistical ASR work in Indian languages.