Spoken book alignment using WFSTs

The framework of this paper is a national project known as IPSOM, whose main goal is to improve the access to digitally stored spoken books, used primarily by the visually impaired community, by providing tools for easily detecting and indexing units (words, sentences, topics). Simultaneously, the project also aims to broaden the usage of multimedia spoken books (for instance in didactic applications, etc.), by providing multimedia interfaces for access and retrieval. Hence, spoken book alignment is a major task.