Transcribing Meetings with the AMIDA Systems

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 486-498

  Hain, Thomas ^a   El Hannani, Asmaa ^a   Wan, Vincent ^a   Burget, Lukáš ^b   Grézl, Frantisek ^b   Karafiät, Martin ^b   Dines, John ^c   Garner, Philip N ^c   Lincoln, Mike ^d   Huijbregts, Marijn ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AMI corpus; Juicer; meeting transcription; multiple distant microphone; resource optimisation; rich text

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008520364     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2163395     Document Type: Article

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