Introduction

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Objectives

SCRIBE’s primary objective is to develop a Norwegian speech-to-text transcription system for multi-party conversations in realistic recording conditions.

In order to attain the project goal, research and technology development beyond the state-of-the-art is needed within several key areas. These include language universal issues, as well as issues specifically related to the Norwegian language.

Secondary Objectives

We will develop models that are robust to disfluencies that are typical in spontaneous conversational speech, that can cope with turn taking and take advantage of the context in the dialog.
The models will also support the use of spoken dialects and different orthographies (Bokmål, Nynorsk, or dialect specific).
We will define evaluation metrics that predict the quality of the transcription based on semantics rather than merely word error rate.
Finally, we will contribute to the theoretical and methodological development of machine learning with sparse data.

We are grateful for funding from The Research Council of Norway within the IKTPLUSS initiative.