Approaches to reduce the effects of OOV queries on indexed spoken audio

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 899-906

  Logan, Beth ^a,b,d   Van Thong, Jean Mannuel ^a,b,d   Moreno, Pedro J ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audio indexing; Out of vocabulary words; Speech indexing; Spoken document retrieval

Indexed keywords

AUDIO INDEXING; OUT-OF-VOCABULARY WORDS; SPEECH INDEXING; SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PRECISION ENGINEERING; SET THEORY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 26844534218     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2005.854429     Document Type: Article

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