Equipment and facilities of the Modern Greek Dialect Research Laboratory
The Laboratory is equipped with computers, special software to process sound and speech, digital recorders and a library. It has recorded and digitised material featuring various modern Greek dialects which have been subject to research by staff members of the Linguistics Section.
The equipment of the Research Laboratory includes:
- Ten portable solid state professional digital recorders (eight Marantz PMD 660 + two Marantz PMD 670)
- Two laptops and seven external hard discs of 250 GB each for safe back-up of the recordings during the field work
- Video camera and high-tech digital camera
- Professional book scanner (i2S Copibook) capable of digitising old manuscripts and photographs
- Two sound-proof cabins, supported by professional studio recording hardware and software, for optimum recordings under laboratory conditions
- Equipment to digitise old -analogue- audio recordings
- A local network of a server and nine PCs
- Library with unpublished manuscripts written in dialectal form, and other printed material
- Archive with oral material compiled during research programmes (approx. 350 hours of recorded narratives)
- Voice recognition software
- Digital processing software
