The first part of this year I am concentrating on coming to grips with a new set of tools for managing workflows. Specifically the Galaxy environment and Docker, a platform for deploying self contained virtual environments. The aim of the project is to distribute highly customizable and flexible workflows for interacting with speech and associated labels. This will be mainly be achieved using tools developed in R but the beauty of Galaxy is that you can string together tools from a variety of sources (e.g. Python or C), cobbling them together into a workflow that can be tailored to the needs of the user.

It has been a long time since updates and considering the effort I put in to set up this frame work, I thought I should start this up again. I will try to post some articles/tutorials on the new Emu Speech Database and my experiences with using it for teaching and research.

One of the best things about using EmuR is that it integrates well into my existing R environment and allows the use of modern statistical/visualisation tools.

Stay tuned…