@article{0e9acd00d439435696097e354b5b9712,
title = "To Undeaf Their Ears: The Spoken Word in a Multimedia World",
abstract = "The importance of spoken word in multimedia environment is discussed. The opinion of the author on the inherent value of preserving the spoken word as a vital element in the cultural heritage is also discussed. Text versions are not able to capture vital data, which give meaning and depth to the words themselves. The main objective of audio-based research is the improvement in accuracy in automatic speech recognition for text searching of audio materials.",
author = "Jerry Goldman",
note = "Funding Information: If you are now convinced that there is power in the spoken word, you must also sense some frustration, because unlike text documents, spoken documents are rigidly linear. You must listen to them to find the parts you want. That might only be a temporary feature, soon solved by improved speech-to-text processing. Thus, the goal of audio-based research is improving accuracy in automatic speech recognition to support text searches of audio materials and playback relevant audio sections. In a new international digital libraries project—cosponsored by the United Kingdom{\textquoteright}s Joint Information Systems Committee and the US National Science Foundation (http:// www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pr_nsfjisc01)— a group of investigators will create an annotation workbench to comment on audio files and then share the resulting metadata with subsequent users. By creating a community of listeners (students, researchers, and citizens) sharing information in a virtual ocean of audio, the hope is to benefit everyone. This approach depends on the warehousing and streaming of authoritative files. Few people have the time or resources to be tethered to the network. How tantalizing to have access to our spoken heritage but lack the connectivity to listen for hours at a time.",
year = "2003",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1109/MMUL.2003.1237545",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
pages = "8--11",
journal = "IEEE Multimedia",
issn = "1070-986X",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
number = "4",
}