A Critical Review of State-Of-The-Art Technologies for Cross-Language Speech Retrieval

Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval

Volume

Papers from the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

Recent developments in monolingual speech retrieval, automatic speech recognition and crosslanguage text retrieval suggest that cross-language speech retrieval deserves some enquiry. To direct work in this new area, it is important to appreciate the possibilities and limitations of the component technologies. This paper gives a critical review of the state-of-the-art of technologies for speech retrieval in cross-language environments and outlines some possible experimental paradigms.