This article describes a new automatic transcription system in the Japanese Parliament which deploys our automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology and has been in official operation since April 2011. The speaker-independent ASR system handles ...
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kouhei Sumi, Jun Ogata, Masataka Goto
IPSJ Journal 52(12) 3363-3373 Dec 2011
We present a novel scheme for indexing "hot spots" in conversational speech content, such as podcasts, based on the reaction of the audience. Specifically, we focus on laughters and non-lexical reactive tokens, which are presumably related with fu...