RetrievalofMandarinChinese.PDF

Retrieval of Mandarin Chinese Broadcast News via Speech Berlin Chen Graduate Institute of Computer Science Information Engineering National Taiwan Normal University Outline 2 What is spoken document retrieval (SDR) Related work and current progress Mandarin SDR research at NTU and Sinica A prototype system for Mandarin SDR Conclusions and future work Spoken Document Retrieval 3 Main Task Automatically indexing a collection of spoken documents with speech recognition techniques Retrieving relevant documents in response to a text/speech query Why Interesting? Huge quantities of spoken/audio documents are becoming available, such as broadcast news, digital library archives, etc. Speech is currently a difficult media to browse and search through Possible use of speech as a new data type for retrieval in the future Speech provides a better user interface in wireless environments Scenario for Information Retrieval 4 speech Text-to- information Speech text Synthesis information Public Services/ Information/ Knowledge h