Identification of soundbite and its speaker name using transcripts of broadcast news speech

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Feifan ^a   Liu, Yang ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Sentence segmentation; Soundbite detection; Speaker name recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BROADCAST NEWS; ENTIRE SYSTEM; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; NAME RECOGNITION; PIPE-LINE SYSTEMS; SENTENCE SEGMENTATION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; TWO-COMPONENT;

ERROR DETECTION; REMELTING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77950351072     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1731035.1731037     Document Type: Article

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