Speech Recognition Issues for Dutch Spoken Document Retrieval

In this paper, ongoing work on the development of the speech recognition modules of MMIR environment for Dutch is described. The work on the generation of acoustic models and language models along with their current performance is presented. Some characteristics of the Dutch language and of the target video archives that require special treatment are discussed.

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