Research infrastructure Visible Speech (VISP) is an infrastructure developed to enable the handling of audio recordings of people speaking, in accordance with GDPR and IT security requirements.
The research platform Visible Speech (VISP) provides access to a centralised environment for speech language research that strives to meet both researchers' needs for efficient workflows and legislators' demands for secure data management.
The infrastructure offers the research community a unified environment to perform reproducible speech signal processing in an environment that supports national and international collaborations. The VISP platform offers the most comprehensive set of publicly available speech and voice analysis procedures in the world within its framework. National access to the platform’s tools is ensured through the SWAMID collaboration for academic login to digital resources.
Digital archiving of host projects is also facilitated by a uniform, documented and transparent directory structure for all projects in VISP, which also reduces barriers to making data available in accordance with the FAIR principles.
The infrastructure is available to researchers in all disciplines. National access to the infrastructure’s tools is ensured through the SWAMID collaboration for academic login to virtual resources. The node included in the Språkbanken CLARIN can often participate as a partner and support research projects with expertise.
To access the platform, researchers apply for a project space after approved ethical review. The research infrastructure can undertake processing tasks for material nationally after the necessary agreements regarding data responsibility, etc., have been established; however, for larger storage needs or processing, a user fee may apply.
VISP is funded by the work within Språkbanken CLARIN, which develops and makes available digital methods and resources for processing linguistic material that forms the basis for research.
On these pages, you can read more about CLARIN / SweCLARIN, Språkbanken, and Humlab at Umeå University.
