Speech for Multimedia Information Retrieval

Alexander G. Hauptmann, Michael J. Witbrock,
Alexander I. Rudnicky and Stephen Reed,
Carnegie Mellon University,
School of Computer Science
5000 Forbes Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Phone: (412)268-1448

E-mail: alex@cs.cmu.edu

We describe the Informedia@+(tm) News-on-Demand system. News-on-Demand is an innovative example of indexing and searching broadcast video and audio material by text content. The fully-automatic system monitors TV news and allows selective retrieval of news items based on spoken queries. The user then plays the appropriate video "paragraph". The system runs on a Pentium PC using MPEG-I video compression and the Sphinx-II continuous speech recognition system

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