High speed spoken term detection by combination of n-gram array of a syllable lattice and LVCSR result for NTCIR-SpokenDoc.
Keisuke Iwami, Seiichi Nakagawa · NTCIR · 2011
For spoken document retrieval, it is very important to consider Out-of-Vocabulary (OOV) and mis-recognition of spoken words. Therefore, sub-word unit based recognition and retrieval methods have been proposed. This paper describes a Japanese spoken document retrieval system that is robust for considering OOV words and mis-recognition of subunits. Additionally our system combines Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognizer(LVCSR) and a sub-word unit recognition system for In-Vocabulary(IV) words. We used individual syllables as sub-word unit in continuous speech recognition and an n-gram sequence of syllables in a recognized syllable-based lattice. We propose an n-gram indexing/retrieval method with distance in the syllable lattice for attacking OOV, recognition errors, and high speed retrieval. We applied this method to academic lecture presentation database of 44 hours, and 0.645(F-measure) of the OOV words was obtained in less than 2.5 milliseconds per query.