This paper addresses recent progress in speaker-independent, large vocabulary, continuous speech recognition, which has opened up a wide range of near and mid-term applications. One rapidly expanding application area is the processing of broadcast audio for information access. At LIMSI, broadcast news transcription systems have been developed for English, French, German, Mandarin and Portuguese...

Existing mobile navigators can readily display any static data related to the area surrounding a user. However, their ability to display any dynamic data is limited. In this paper, we enable the viewing of dynamic data on a navigator using wireless data broadcast. The dynamic data are periodically broadcast via base stations of wireless systems, and can be filtered by navigators fetching desire...

In the Broadcast Scheduling Problem (BSP), a finite set of wireless stations are to be scheduled in a time division multiple access frame. The objective is to provide a collision free broadcast schedule which minimizes the total frame length and maximizes the slot utilization within the frame. We present a Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP) for the BSP. GRASP is a two-phase met...

Transcription of broadcast news is an interesting and challenging application for large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR). We present in detail the structure of a manually segmented and annotated corpus including over 160 hours of German broadcast news, and propose it as an evaluation framework of LVCSR systems. We show our own experimental results on the corpus, achieved with a ...

A development environment for applications specified in an extended version of a previously developed coordination model based on associatively broadcast interactions is presented. The previous associative broadcast coordination model is extended to incorporate more complex specifications for interactions including multiple message interactions and fault-tolerance by replication. The runtime sy...

In communication-intensive applications, the information collection policy influences the load balancing decision process and the communication itself, because the collection reduces the bandwidth used by the application. In this paper, we present a study of collection policies used by well-known load balancing system, now in the context of communication-intensive applications and focusing in r...

Article history: Received: 28.11.2014. Received in revised form: 5.3.2015. Accepted: 7.3.2015. This paper proposes a new DFT Architecture that contains three test scan modes. The test data could be interval broadcast to scan chains whenever the data in corresponding locations are compatible. Compared with the conventional broadcast scan architecture, the proposed architecture achieves better co...

This paper describes the process of collecting and recording two new bilingual speech databases in Spanish and Basque. They are designed primarily for speaker diarization in two different application domains: broadcast news audio and recorded meetings. First, both databases have been manually segmented. Next, several diarization experiments have been carried out in order to evaluate them. Our b...

Self-organized collaborative applications in terrains with no infrastructure support for untethered communication are long known to be feasible only with the mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) technology. Supporting collaboration however requires a solution to the consensus problem, using which collaborating users with different initial opinions can decide identically. Efficient consensus solutio...

Video presentation systems currently available provide users with only a few functionality options. With the introduction of an Internet-based back channel, the way is now open for wide-spread interactive video systems. The convergence of the Internet with broadcast services gives rise to a variety of new application types. It extends the opportunity for a client to retrieve additional video co...