Recording and storing of speech data

This position-paper accompanies the paper entitled “Recording techniques for capturing natural every-day speech“, which is published in the LREC-2002 proceedings, and puts forward our current thinking for the recording and storage of large amounts of every-day conversational speech. There has been considerable discussion recently regarding the optimal choice of media for recording, and the problems of data compression. This paper reports the stance taken on these matters by the JST/CREST ESP Project. It should be read as an opinion-piece, rather than a report of scientific findings. .