Demonstrators

Radio Oranje

During World War II Queen Wilhelmina read speeches addressed to the Dutch nation via Radio Oranje. These speeches were fully transcribed, and both the recordings and the transcripts have been preserved.

In the Radio Oranje project an interface was developed that allows a user to search the transcripts online and also to directly listen to the corresponding audio fragments. This was made possible by using automatic speech recognition technology. Furthermore, subtitling is shown together with the audio, which makes it easier to understand the historical speeches.

The Radio Oranje project is a collaboration between the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NIBG), and the CHoral and MultimediaN projects from the University of Twente.

The demo, which is in Dutch, can be found here.

Buchenwald

The Buchenwald demonstrator supports access to and search in interviews with Buchenwald survivors.

The demo, which is in Dutch, can be found here.

IIAV

CHoral has created a demonstrator for the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement (IIAV). A collection of interviews with several women that play an important role in the women's movement have been disclosed. The result (in Dutch) can be accessed here.

Brandgrens

The 'Brandgrens Ooggetuigen' search functionality of the Brandgrens website is a joint effort of the Rotterdam Municipal Archives, Zicht.nl and CHoral researchers. The disclosure of the interviews was realised through CHoral's speech technology.