| Summary: | "... Was developed by The University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation Institute (USC-SFI), the University of Maryland, IBM and Johns Hopkins University as part of the MALACH (Multilingual Access to Large Spoken ArCHives) Project. It contains approximately 375 hours of interviews from 784 interviewees along with transcripts and other documentation.... Inspired by his experience making Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in 1994 to gather video testimonies from survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust.... The goal of the MALACH project was to develop methods for improved access to large multitnational spoken archives; the focus was advancing the state of the art of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and information retrieval. The characteristics of the USC-SFI collection -- unconstrained, natural speech filled with disfluencies, heavy accents, age-related coarticulations, un-cued speaker and language switching and emotional speech -- were considered well-suited for that task." -- LDC online catalogue.
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