14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-14) San Francisco, CA, USA August 1-7, 1999

Spoken Content-Based Audio Navigation (SCAN)

John Choi, Donald Hindle, Julia Hirschberg, Fernando Pereira, Amit Singhal, Steve Whittaker

AT&T Labs – Research, Florham Park, New Jersey, USA

We describe SCAN, a system for retrieving and browsing speech documents from large audio corpora that uses new information retrieval and speech processing techniques to create easily navigable presentations of documents relevant to a user query. Experiments show that the new interface is more effective than simple speechalone interfaces.

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Bibliographic reference.  Choi, John / Hindle, Donald / Hirschberg, Julia / Pereira, Fernando / Singhal, Amit / Whittaker, Steve (1999): "Spoken content-based audio navigation (SCAN)", In ICPhS-14, 1745-1748.