Query-by-example search with discriminative neural acoustic word embeddings

S Settle, K Levin, H Kamper, K Livescu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03818, 2017 - arxiv.org
Query-by-example search often uses dynamic time warping (DTW) for comparing queries
and proposed matching segments. Recent work has shown that comparing speech …

Acoustic span embeddings for multilingual query-by-example search

Y Hu, S Settle, K Livescu - 2021 IEEE Spoken Language …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Query-by-example (QbE) speech search is the task of matching spoken queries to
utterances within a search collection. In low-or zero-resource settings, QbE search is often …

Query-by-example speech search using recurrent neural acoustic word embeddings with temporal context

Y Yuan, CC Leung, L Xie, H Chen, B Ma - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Acoustic word embeddings (AWEs) have been popular in low-resource query-by-example
speech search. They are using vector distances to find the spoken query in search content …

Partial matching and search space reduction for QbE-STD

MC Madhavi, HA Patil - Computer Speech & Language, 2017 - Elsevier
Query-by-Example approach of spoken content retrieval has gained much attention because
of its feasibility in the absence of speech recognition and its applicability in a multilingual …

[PDF][PDF] The NNI Query-by-Example System for MediaEval 2015.

J Hou, CCL Van Tung Pham, CC Leung, L Wang, H Xu… - MediaEval, 2015 - academia.edu
This paper describes the system developed by the NNI team for the Query-by-Example
Search on Speech Task (QUESST) in the MediaEval 2015 evaluation. Our submitted system …

Neural approaches to spoken content embedding

S Settle - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14905, 2023 - arxiv.org
Comparing spoken segments is a central operation to speech processing. Traditional
approaches in this area have favored frame-level dynamic programming algorithms, such as …

[PDF][PDF] Toward High-Performance Language-Independent Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection for MediaEval 2015: Post-Evaluation Analysis.

CC Leung, L Wang, H Xu, J Hou, Van Tung Pham… - …, 2016 - researchgate.net
This paper documents the significant components of a state-ofthe-art language-independent
query-by-example spoken term detection system designed for the Query by Example Search …

Multilingual acoustic word embeddings for zero-resource languages

C Jacobs - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.10543, 2024 - arxiv.org
This research addresses the challenge of developing speech applications for zero-resource
languages that lack labelled data. It specifically uses acoustic word embedding (AWE)--fixed …

Efficient query-by-example spoken document retrieval combining phone multigram representation and dynamic time warping

P Lopez-Otero, J Parapar, A Barreiro - Information Processing & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Query-by-example spoken document retrieval (QbESDR) aims at finding those documents in
a set that include a given spoken query. Current approaches are, in general, not valid for …

Multitask feature learning for low-resource query-by-example spoken term detection

H Chen, CC Leung, L Xie, B Ma… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel technique that learns a low-dimensional feature representation from
unlabeled data of a target language, and labeled data from a nontarget language. The …