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(45 min) Charles Fox, Heidi Christensen, Thomas Hain » Location: Campbell Recital Hall
The Natural Speech Technology (NST) project is the
UK's flagship research programme for speech recognition research in natural environments. NST is a collaboration between Edinburgh, Cambridge and Sheffield
Universities; public sector institutions the BBC, NHS
and GCHQ; and companies including Nuance, EADS,
Cisco and Toshiba. In contrast to assumptions made
by most current commercial speech recognisers, natural environments include situations such as multiparticipant meetings, where participants may talk over
one another, move around the meeting room, make
non-speech vocalisations, and all in the presence of
noises from office equipment and external sources such
as traffic and people outside the room. To generate
data for such cases, we have set up a meeting room /
recording studio equipped to record 16 channels of audio from real-life meetings, as well as a large computing cluster for audio analysis. These systems run on free,
Linux-based software and this paper gives details of
their implementation as a case study for other users
considering Linux audio for similar large projects.
The schedule is a major guideline. There is no guarantee events will take place at the announced timeslot.