SLAM: a PC-Based Multi-Level Segmentation Tool

An interactive Segmentation and Labelling Automatic Module (SLAM), especially developed for Windows-based Personal Computers, is described. The system is extremely user-friendly and it was designed with the aim of supporting speech scientists in assessing the very heavy and time-consuming task of segmenting a big amount of speech material such as that caused by the tremendous spread of new and always bigger speech data-bases. The system, which is based on the Multi-Level Segmentation theory, was built using Microsoft C++ and Windows 3.1 SDK software1, and runs preferably on Intel 386/486-based personal computers running DOS 5.00 or higher and equipped with VGA and SuperVGA boards.