Various pages about audio mining

Products and views

• How BBN's audio mining works
• From multimedia retrieval to knowledge management. An article on IEEE Computer, Volume 35 Issue 3, pages 58-66, March 2002
• Compaq's search engine for audio & video segments, includes a nice demo over a huge amount of audio files
• About Dragon Systems' audio indexing and search
• An audio mining tool by ScanSoft
• How to benefit from audio mining, a consultant's report
• Some wild speculations and views into the future

Related research projects

• NGSW National Gallery of the Spoken Word
• OLIVE Multilingual Indexing Tool for Broadcast Material Based on Speech Recognition
• THISL Thematic Indexing of Spoken Language
• ASSAVID Automatic Segmentation and Semantic Annotation of Sports Videos
• MAMI, Musical Audio-Mining, "Query by Humming?"
• M4: MultiModal Meeting Manager
• Meeting Recorder Project
• EARS Effective, Affordable, Reusable Speech-to-Text (another link)
• Towards a Digital Library of Popular Music a paper by Bainbridge, Nevill-Manning, Witten, Smith, McNab, 1999.
• SOM enhanced Jukebox, a project from Vienna University of Technology

Related workshops

• ESCA99, workshop on accessing information in spoken audio
• ISMIR01, symposium on music IR
• SIGIR98, SIGIR99, CBMI99, CBMI01, workshops on multimedia indexing and retrieval
• CRAC workshop 2001, Consistent & Reliable Acoustic Cues for sound analysis
• WASPAA workshop 2001, Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics

Special issues

• Accessing information in spoken audio. Speech Communication, Vol. 32:1-2, September 2000.
• Spoken language processing, Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume: 88 Issue: 8 , Aug. 2000 (another link)
• Automatic transcription of Broadcast News data. Speech Communication, Volume 37, Issue 1-2, May 2002
• Advances in large vocabulary speech recognition. Computer Speech & Language, Vol 16, No. 1, 2002
• Some general reviews on speech recognition issues. IEEE Computer, Volume 35 Issue 3, pages 38-66, March 2002

Some bibliographies

• Accessing Information in Spoken Audio, introduction and publications by Sheffield University
• Spoken language systems, introduction and publications by LIMSI
• Speech and Language Procesing, papers by BBN
• Automatic Transcription of Music, the thesis of Anssi Klapuri