A simple and efficient method to align very long speech signals to acoustically imperfect transcriptions

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 1838-1841

  Bordel, Germán ^a   Nieto, Silvia ^a   Penagarikano, Mikel ^a   Rodríguez Fuentes, Luis Javier ^a   Varona, Amparo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic video subtitling; Multilingual speech; Multimedia information retrieval; Speech to text alignment

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL COSTS; AUTOMATIC VIDEO SUBTITLING; COMPLEX SCHEMES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PLENARY SESSIONS; SIMPLE APPROACH; SPEECH RECOGNIZER;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 84878532221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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