Major progress is being recorded regularly on both the technology and exploitation of
automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken language systems. However, there are still …

In recent years, there has been dramatic progress in both speech and language processing,
in many cases leveraging some of the same underlying methods. This progress and the …

In the last decade, automated captioning services have appeared in mainstream technology
use. Until now, the focus of these services have been on the technical aspects, supporting …

Tanja Schultz and Katrin Kirchhoff have compiled a comprehensive overview of speech
processing from a multilingual perspective. By taking this all-inclusive approach to speech …

The applications of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are proliferating, in part
due to recent significant quality improvements. However, as recent work indicates, even …

We are living in a multilingual world and the diversity in languages which are used to
interact with information access systems has generated a wide variety of challenges to be …

Speech media, that is, digital audio and video containing spoken content, has blossomed in
recent years. Large collections are accruing on the Internet as well as in private and …

In this paper, we present our progress in pretraining Czech monolingual audio transformers
from a large dataset containing more than 80 thousand hours of unlabeled speech, and …

Advances in formulating spoken document retrieval for a new National Gallery of the Spoken
Word (NGSW) are addressed. NGSW is the first large-scale repository of its kind, consisting …

Objective We investigate machine translation (MT) of user search queries in the context of
cross-lingual information retrieval (IR) in the medical domain. The main focus is on …