Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Speech signal processing – Recognition
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-09
2005-08-09
Lerner, Martin (Department: 2654)
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Speech signal processing
Recognition
C704S254000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06928407
ABSTRACT:
A system and associated method automatically discover salient segments in a speech transcript and focus on the segmentation of an audio/video source into topically cohesive segments based on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) transcriptions. The word n-grams are extracted from the speech transcript using a three-phase segmentation algorithm based on the following sequence or combination of boundary-based and content-based methods: a boundary-based method; a rate of arrival of feature method; and a content-based method. In the first two segmentation passes, the temporal proximity and the rate of arrival of features are analyzed to compute an initial segmentation. In the third segmentation pass, changes in the set of content-bearing words used by adjacent segments are detected, to validate the initial segments for merging them, to prevent over-segmentation.
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Ponceleon Dulce Beatriz
Srinivasan Savitha
Kassatly Samuel A.
Lerner Martin
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