In this paper, the supervised maximum-divergence common component GMM (MD-CCGMM) model was used to the speaker-andenvironment change detection in broadcast news signal. In order to discriminate the speaker-and-environment change in broadcast news, the MD-CCGMM signal model will maximize the likelihood of CCGMM signal modeling and the divergence measure of different audio signal segments simulta...

In Sweden, digital TV services have until very recently not been accessible to most people through the TV set. At the same time, TV channels offer more and more content on the web and the majority of the population has access to high-speed internet connections. A web survey aimed at investigating attitudes and behavior related to on-demand TV was distributed in December 2008 to 52 households in...

A user study of Físchlár-News system was conducted in Spring 2004 with 16 users, each user using the system for a 1-month period. Físchlár-News is an experimental online news archive that incorporates various automatic content-based video indexing techniques and a news story recommender algorithm to process and index the daily 9 o’clock broadcast news from TV and allows its users to browse, sea...

This paper describes topic identi cation for Japanese TV news speech based on the keyword spotting technique. Three thousands of nouns are selected as keywords which contribute to topic identi cation, based on criterion of mutual information and a length of the word. This set of the keywords identi ed the correct topic for 76.3% of articles from newspaper text data. Further, we performed keywor...

The extraction of important sentences is a key technique for automatic summarization. Whereas most research in this area has targeted written language, we are conducting research on spoken language monologues such as presentations and TV news commentary programs. We collected 50 TV news commentary programs, and experimented with the extraction of important sentences from transcriptions. We used...

several studies and researches have been conducted in the world since 1950 to assess and evaluate the media news credibility, and in this regard the researches tried to investigate the media news from different angles. the finding of any such researches and studies quite indicate that the credibility is a multidimensional construct and thus, a reliable and successful survey in this connection i...

One of the biggest challenges we currently face is to keep elderly people immersed in their social environment when they leave their home and enter a retirement home. Many of them feel isolated. The TV stands as their favorite media, and our first experiments showed that listening to vocalized local news and receiving TV messages and photos from family helped in fighting these feelings of isola...

This paper presents a spoken document retrieval system (Hearch) looking like a conventional search tool, which retrieves audio/video segments based on the automatic transcription of speech contents. The system consists of a backend that captures, processes and indexes audio/video resources, and a front-end that allows to search contents, configure various modules and display performance statist...

The effectiveness on the television communication is sustained on the handling of voice, which is the base of fundamental expression of the audio-visual contents. Consequently, the audience attention to the television message as well as understanding and assimilating of it, will depend on a correct and expressive use of voice. These reasons guarantee the necessity to make an empirical investiga...