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.

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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.