Paleography experts spend many hours transcribing historic documents, and state-of-the-art handwritten text recognition systems are not suitable for performing this task automatically. In this paper we present the modifications on a previously developed interactive framework for transcription of handwritten text. This system, rather than full automation, aimed at assisting the user with the rec...

Phonetics 28 Consonants 28 Voiced and Voiceless Sounds 28 Place of Articulation 29 Familiar Symbols 30 Unfamiliar Symbols 30 Transcribing Sounds (Not Letters) 31 Manner of Articulation 32 A Consonant Chart 33 Glottal Stops and Flaps 33 Vowels 34 Diphthongs 35 American and British Diphthongs 36 Subtle Individual Variation 36 Study Questions 37 Tasks 38 Discussion Topics/Projects 40 Further Readi...

Existing text based CAPTCHAs can only transcribe words in an image that contains ASCII characters. In this paper, we are describing a system called UCAPTCHA, which is intended to transcribe words in an image that contains Unicode characters to text. Such a system will be useful in transcribing scanned documents from many European languages like Spanish, German, French etc.

For automatically transcribing human-performed polyphonic music recorded in the MIDI format, rhythm and tempo are decomposed through probabilistic modeling using Viterbi search in HMM for recognizing the rhythm and EM Algorithm for estimating the tempo. Experimental evaluation are also presented.