A system for automatic alignment of broadcast media captions using weighted finite-state transducers

2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2015 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 675-680

  Bell, Peter ^a   Renals, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alignment; broadcast media; MGB Challenge

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; TRANSDUCERS;

AUDIO QUALITY; AUTOMATIC ALIGNMENT; BROADCAST MEDIA; F-SCORE; MGB CHALLENGE; TIME ALIGNMENT; WEIGHTED FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84964514365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2015.7404861     Document Type: Conference Paper

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