Language independent search in MediaEval's Spoken Web Search task
Spoken Web Search allows users to access an audio database with voice queries independent of the language used. It is a novel application of speech technology to specifically help under-developed communities. Low-resource query by example techniques are becoming popular again, and are well suited to solving this problem. Rival and complementary techniques include multi-lingual LVCSR and articulatory feature based modeling. We present a comparative analysis of these techniques as submitted to the MediaEval evaluation series.
spoken web evaluation low-resource speech technology spoken term detection