Recording contexts: contextualized audios gathering tool

Abstract

[en] The following project called “Recording Contexts: Contextualized Audios Gathering Tool” is a web application for the gathering of contextualized audio recordings. The main goal of the application is to collect audio recordings from different users through repetition and context-complete exercises previously created inside the application. Recording Contexts has been developed to help the Phonetics Laboratory of the University of Barcelona expand their research on acoustic data. Furthermore, it provides a valuation to those users that carry out the exercises thanks to the execution of a Python process that compares their answer with a previously recorded audio example. The application has been developed using the PHP framework Symfony4 to create the back-end and a group of front-end technologies: CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Moreover, the best methodologies and state-of-the-art web technologies have been applied, always thinking in terms of scalability and modularity so the application can adapt to future necessities and improvements. This document outlines the process of design, analysis, planning and architecture of the proposed application.