Speech Recognition and Scholarly Research: Usability and Sustainability

For years we have been working on speech recognition (ASR) as a tool for scholarly research. The current state-of-the-art can be useful for many scholarly use cases focusing on audiovisual content, but practically applying ASR is often not so straightforward. In the CLARIAH Media Suite, a secured online portal for scholarly research for audiovisual media, we solved the most important hurdles for the practical deployment of ASR by focusing on usability and sustainability aspects