World-Wide Media Browser--Multilingual Audio-visual Content Retrieval and Browsing System
Takaaki Hori, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Atsushi Nakamura · NTT technical review · 2009
This article describes the World-Wide Media Browser (WWMB) being developed at NTT Communication Science Laboratories.The aim of this system is to provide users with easy access to a large amount of multilingual audio/visual content via translingual techniques.To achieve this goal, we are integrating our latest research achievements in speech recognition, spoken language processing, utterance retrieval, and machine translation.In this article, we introduce a WWMB prototype that we have developed and review our speech and language technologies.We also report evaluation results for real lecture videos recorded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.