The ALERT system: advanced broadcast speech recognition technology for selective dissemination of multimedia information

Author

Rigoll, Gerhard

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Gerhard Mercator Univ., Duisburg, Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

301

Lastpage

306

Abstract

This paper presents a brief description of the ALERT system, which is under development by a consortium working on a research project sponsored by the European Commission. The ALERT system uses advanced speech recognition technology and video processing techniques in order to process large broadcast speech archives and multimedia information resources for the purpose of extracting specific information from such databases and inform selected customers about its contents. It is one of the most ambitious projects currently carried out in the human language technologies (HLT) area (see also http://alert.uni-duisburg.de). The paper describes the objectives of the overall system, its basic system architecture and the scientific approach taken in order to realize the specified demonstrators.

Keywords

information dissemination; multimedia databases; natural languages; research initiatives; speech recognition; video databases; video signal processing; ALERT system; European Commission research project; broadcast speech recognition; human language technologies; multimedia information dissemination; multimedia information resources; video processing; Broadcast technology; Data mining; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Humans; Information resources; Multimedia communication; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Speech processing; Speech recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2001. ASRU '01. IEEE Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7343-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASRU.2001.1034647

Filename

1034647