Event

ICSI's Participation in the NIST Rich Transcription 2009 Evaluation

Gerald Friedland

ICSI

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
12:30

The NIST RT evaluation has a track record of setting the bar for the state of the art in technologies that produce rich transcripts (words + metadata) from recordings of human-to-human communication since 2003 by being an open and informal competition between researchers world wide. In 2009, the evaluation focused on speaker diarization, speech recognition, and speaker-attributed speech-to-text technologies in the meeting domain. ICSI has participated in the NIST Rich Transcription evaluation for the past years. This year, ICSI submitted to 8 different speaker diarization tasks and, together with SRI, to 2 speaker attributed speech-to-text tasks. This talk will report on ICSI's participation in the NIST RT'09 evaluation, discuss the results obtained, present post-evaluation experiments, and outline the implied future work.