The Meeting Room Project

The meeting room project at the Centre for Language Technology is aimed at building speech technology applications in the context of a meeting room. One of our core goals is to build technology that can be deployed without invasive or complex instrumentation (eg. headsets, large array microphones). We are also interested in the confluence of speech technology and language technology and how both can be applied to make speech technology in the meeting room be a viable and useful resource.

• Data Collection
• Topic Detection in Meeting Dialogs -- Annotator Page
• Resources

People

• Steve Cassidy -- Speech Technology
• Catherine Watson -- Speech Technology, acoustics
• Diego Mollá Aliod -- question answering in audio recordings
• Robert Dale -- information retrieval, dialogue modelling

Publications

The following papers have been published by the project:

Steve Cassidy and Catherine Watson Detecting Backchannel Intrusions in Multi-Party Teleconferences, Proceedings of the 9th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Melbourne, December 2002

Catherine Watson and Steve Cassidy Speaker Change Detection in Multi-Party Meetings, in Proceedings of the Eigth Western Pacific Acoustics Conference, Melbourne, April 2003

Steve Cassidy The Macquarie Speaker Diarisation System for RT04S, presented at ICASP 2004 Meeting Recognition Workshop, Montreal, Canada, May 2004

Claudia Schremmer, Steve Cassidy, Silvia Pfeiffer. Audio Meta Data Generation for the Continuous Media Web. Proceedings of 25th Audio Engineering Society (AES) Conference on Metadata for Audio, pp 288-295, London, UK, June 2004.

Steve Cassidy The Macquarie Speaker Diarisation System for RT04S, presented at ICASP 2004 Meeting Recognition Workshop, Montreal, Canada, May 2004

Cassidy, S. Evaluation of the Macquarie Meeting Room Speaker Diarisation System. Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, December 2004.

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