Speech-based Annotation of Heterogeneous Multimedia Content Using Automatic Speech Recognition

This paper reports on the setup and evaluation of robust speech recognition system parts, geared towards transcript generation for heterogeneous, real-life media collections. The system is deployed for generating speech transcripts for the NIST/TRECVID-2007 test collection, part of a Dutch real-life archive of news-related genres. Performance figures for this type of content are compared to figures for broadcast news test data.

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