Towards Speech as a Knowledge Resource

Speech is a tantalizing mode of human communication. On one hand, humans understand speech with ease and use speech to express complex ideas, information, and knowledge. On the other hand, automatic speech recognition with computers is still very hard, and extracting knowledge from speech is even harder. Nevertheless, the potential reward for solving this problem drives us to pursue it. Before we can exploit speech as a knowledge resource, however, we must understand the current state of the art in speech recognition and the relevant, successful applications of speech recognition in the related areas of multimedia indexing and search. In this paper we motivate

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: CIKM
• Authors: Eric W. Brown, Savitha Srinivasan, Anni Coden, Dulce B. Ponceleon, James W. Cooper, Arnon Amir, Jan Pieper
• Keywords: Automatic Speech Recognition, CIKM 2001, Humans Understand Speech, Information Management, Speech Recognition