We have recently extended the capabilities of BBN's large vocabulary discrete-utterance speech recognition system (BYBLOS) to operate on raw audio recordings of radio news programming. The recordings are given to the system as large monolithic waveforms without any additional sideinformation. Our goal is to transcribe all speech in the input with the highest accuracy possible. The problem is ve...

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In this paper we propose an automatic system for transcribing makam music of Turkey. We document the specific traits of this music that deviate from properties that were targeted by transcription tools so far and we compile a dataset of makam recordings along with aligned microtonal ground-truth. An existing multi-pitch detection algorithm is adapted for transcribing music in 20 cent resolution...

Transcriber is a tool for manual annotation of large speech files. It was originally designed for the broadcast news transcription task. The annotation file format was derived from previous formats used for this task, and many related features were hard-coded. In this paper we present a generalization of the tool based on the annotation graph formalism, and on a more modular design. This will a...

While significant improvements have been made over the last 5 years in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of large read-speech corpora such as the ARPA Wall Street Journal-based CSR corpus (WSJ) for American English and the BREF corpus for French, these tasks remain relatively artificial. In this paper we report on our development work in moving from laboratory read speech data to r...

The packaging of DNA into chromatin limits sequence accessibility, which affects all DNA-based processes including transcription. Indeed, the fundamental unit of chromatin, the nucleosome, presents a strong barrier to transcription in vitro. Since the discovery of the nucleosome barrier, the question of how the RNA polymerase II (Pol II) machinery overcomes nucleosomes at high speeds in vivo ha...

We investigate the problem of manually correcting errors from an automatic speech transcript in a cost-sensitive fashion. This is done by specifying a fixed time budget, and then automatically choosing location and size of segments for correction such that the number of corrected errors is maximized. The core components, as suggested by previous research [1], are a utility model that estimates ...