3 accepted papers
Air traffic control (ATC) relies on communication via speech between pilot and air-traffic controller (ATCO). The call-sign, as unique identifier for each flight, is used to address a specific pilot by the ATCO. Extracting the call-sign from the communication is a challenge because of the noisy ATC…
The paper investigates into Query by Example (QbE) - a spoken term detection technique with queries entered by voice. It describes BUT QbE system that achieved the best accuracy in MediaEval QUESST2014 evaluations. This evaluation was challenging because of severe mismatch between queries and uttera…
In this paper, we present the task and describe the main findings of the 2014 “Query-by-Example Speech Search Task” (QUESST) evaluation. The purpose of QUESST was to perform language independent search of spoken queries on spoken documents, while targeting languages or acoustic conditions for which…