Automatic recognition of spontaneous speech for access to multilingual oral history archives

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 420-435

  Byrne, William ^a   Doermann, David ^b   Franz, Martin ^c   Gustman, Samuel ^d   Hajič, Jan ^e   Oard, Douglas ^b   Picheny, Michael ^c   Psutka, Josef ^f   Ramabhadran, Bhuvana ^c   Soergel, Dagobert ^b   Ward, Todd ^c   Zhu, Wei Jing ^c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Survivors Shoah Vis Hist Found   (United States)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition (ASR); Information retrieval; Multilingual ASR; Oral history; Spoken document retrieval; Spontaneous speech

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TELEPHONE;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); MULTILINGUAL ASR; ORAL HISTORY; SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; SPONTAEOUS SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 3042820894     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2004.828702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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