Soft indexing of speech content for search in spoken documents

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 458-478

  Chelba, Ciprian ^a   Silva, Jorge ^b,c   Acero, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; METADATA; ONLINE SEARCHING; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNIZER (ASR); DOCUMENTS; POSITION SPECIFIC POSTERIOR LATTICE (PSPL);

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 33847607574     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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