This paper describes a system for performing alignment of subtitles to audio on multigenre broadc... more This paper describes a system for performing alignment of subtitles to audio on multigenre broadcasts using a lightly supervised approach. Accurate alignment of subtitles plays a substantial role in the daily work of media companies and currently still requires large human effort. Here, a comprehensive approach to performing this task in an automated way using lightly supervised alignment is proposed. The paper explores the different alternatives to speech segmentation, lightly supervised speech recognition and alignment of text streams. The proposed system uses lightly supervised decoding to improve the alignment accuracy by performing language model adaptation using the target subtitles. The system thus built achieves the third best reported result in the alignment of broadcast subtitles in the Multi-Genre Broadcast (MGB) challenge, with an F1 score of 88.8%. This system is available for research and other non-commercial purposes through webASR, the University of Sheffield's cloud-based speech technology web service. Taking as inputs an audio file and untimed subtitles, webASR can produce timed subtitles in multiple formats, including TTML, WebVTT and SRT.
This paper introduced the concepts of TDMoIP in parallel to VoIP. The discussion starts with, wha... more This paper introduced the concepts of TDMoIP in parallel to VoIP. The discussion starts with, what about them (TDMoIP and VoIP), their present need, architecture, issues and challenges faced by them, area of application, benefits, comparison and future vision.
This paper describes a system for performing alignment of subtitles to audio on multigenre broadc... more This paper describes a system for performing alignment of subtitles to audio on multigenre broadcasts using a lightly supervised approach. Accurate alignment of subtitles plays a substantial role in the daily work of media companies and currently still requires large human effort. Here, a comprehensive approach to performing this task in an automated way using lightly supervised alignment is proposed. The paper explores the different alternatives to speech segmentation, lightly supervised speech recognition and alignment of text streams. The proposed system uses lightly supervised decoding to improve the alignment accuracy by performing language model adaptation using the target subtitles. The system thus built achieves the third best reported result in the alignment of broadcast subtitles in the Multi-Genre Broadcast (MGB) challenge, with an F1 score of 88.8%. This system is available for research and other non-commercial purposes through webASR, the University of Sheffield's cloud-based speech technology web service. Taking as inputs an audio file and untimed subtitles, webASR can produce timed subtitles in multiple formats, including TTML, WebVTT and SRT.
This paper introduced the concepts of TDMoIP in parallel to VoIP. The discussion starts with, wha... more This paper introduced the concepts of TDMoIP in parallel to VoIP. The discussion starts with, what about them (TDMoIP and VoIP), their present need, architecture, issues and challenges faced by them, area of application, benefits, comparison and future vision.
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