It has long been recognised that interactivity improves the effectiveness of Information Retrieval systems. Speech is the most natural and interactive medium of communication and ...
The CLEF-2007 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) track included two tasks: to identify topically coherent segments of English interviews in a known-boundary condition, and to...
Access to spoken information presents challenges in educational, work, and public settings for many individuals. Speech Recognition technology offers a potential strategy for incre...
This research focused on the prediction that children in their school setting would learn more from educational multimedia when critical information was presented as spoken instead...
Bruce L. Mann, P. Newhouse, J. Pagram, A. Campbell...
Early speech retrieval experiments focused on news broadcasts, for which adequate Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) accuracy could be obtained. Like newspapers, news broadcasts a...