Spoken content retrieval—beyond cascading speech recognition with text retrieval

L Lee, J Glass, H Lee, C Chan - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spoken content retrieval refers to directly indexing and retrieving spoken content based on
the audio rather than text descriptions. This potentially eliminates the requirement of …

A high-performance Cantonese keyword search system

B Kingsbury, J Cui, X Cui, MJF Gales… - … , Speech and Signal …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a system for keyword search on Cantonese conversational telephony audio,
collected for the IARPA Babel program, that achieves good performance by combining …

Spoken term detection ALBAYZIN 2014 evaluation: overview, systems, results, and discussion

J Tejedor, DT Toledano, P Lopez-Otero… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2015 - Springer
Spoken term detection (STD) aims at retrieving data from a speech repository given a textual
representation of the search term. Nowadays, it is receiving much interest due to the large …

Method and apparatus for expansion of search queries on large vocabulary continuous speech recognition transcripts

M Wasserblat, M Gorodetsky, G Lembersky - US Patent 9,245,523, 2016 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Many organizations, such as commercial organizations, financial
institutions, government agencies or public safety organizations conduct numerous …

The multi-domain international search on speech 2020 albayzin evaluation: Overview, systems, results, discussion and post-evaluation analyses

J Tejedor, DT Toledano, JM Ramirez, AR Montalvo… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The large amount of information stored in audio and video repositories makes search on
speech (SoS) a challenging area that is continuously receiving much interest. Within SoS …

[PDF][PDF] Subword and phonetic search for detecting out-of-vocabulary keywords

D Karakos, R Schwartz - Fifteenth Annual Conference of the …, 2014 - isca-archive.org
We compare several approaches, separately and together, for spotting of out-of-vocabulary
(OOV) keywords, in terms of their ATWV scores. We considered three types of recognition …

System and method for speech trend analytics with objective function and feature constraints

ID Melamed, M Gilbert - US Patent 9,213,978, 2015 - Google Patents
GOL 25/27(2013.01)(57) ABSTRACT GOL 25/72(2013.01) Disclosed herein are systems,
methods, and non-transitory G06O 30/00(2012.01) computer-readable storage media for …

A robust/fast spoken term detection method based on a syllable n-gram index with a distance metric

S Nakagawa, K Iwami, Y Fujii, K Yamamoto - Speech Communication, 2013 - Elsevier
For spoken document retrieval, it is crucial to consider Out-of-vocabulary (OOV) and the mis-
recognition of spoken words. Consequently, sub-word unit based recognition and retrieval …

Comparison of methods for language-dependent and language-independent query-by-example spoken term detection

J Tejedor, M Fapšo, I Szöke, JH Černocký… - ACM Transactions on …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
This article investigates query-by-example (QbE) spoken term detection (STD), in which the
query is not entered as text, but selected in speech data or spoken. Two feature extractors …

Out-of-vocabulary spoken term detection

D Wang - 2010 - era.ed.ac.uk
Spoken term detection (STD) is a fundamental task for multimedia information retrieval. A
major challenge faced by an STD system is the serious performance reduction when …