Speech Processing for Audio Indexing

This paper addresses some of the recent trends in speech processing, with a focus on speech-to-text transcription as a means to facilitate access to multimedia information in a multilingual context. A brief overview of automatic speech recognition is given along with indicative performance measures for a range of tasks. Enriched transcriptions, that is enhancing the automatic word transcripts with meta-data derived from the audio data is discussed, followed by some hightlights of recent progress and remaining challenges in speech recognition.

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