An enquiring system of unknown words in TV news by spontaneous repetition (application of speaker normalization by speaker subspace projection)

Author

Ariki, Y. ; Tagashira, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf., Ryukoku Univ., Ohtsu, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Oct 1996

Firstpage

993

Abstract

We have constructed a system in which we can enquire about unknown words included in TV news speech by repeating them spontaneously. For example, we might hear “Japan would join the PKO” from the TV news, and if “PKO” is an unknown word then we can enquire about it by saying “What is the PKO?” The system recognizes the word “PKO” and explains its meaning. In this system, it estimates a common section between the announcer´s speech and the user´s speech, and recognizes the word corresponding to the common section. We solved the problem of speaker difference in extracting the common sections by speaker subspace projection

Keywords

explanation; glossaries; information retrieval systems; natural language interfaces; speech recognition; speech synthesis; television; TV news speech; announcer´s speech; common section estimation; speaker difference; speaker normalization; speaker subspace projection; spontaneous repetition; unknown word enquiry system; user´s speech; word meaning explanation; word recognition; CD-ROMs; Data mining; Dictionaries; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Informatics; Information retrieval; Keyboards; Power generation economics; Speech recognition; TV broadcasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3555-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607770

Filename

607770