Acoustic Indexing for Multimedia Retrieval and Browsing

This paper reviews the Video Mail Retrieval (VMR)projectat Cambridge University and ORL. The VMR project beganin September 1993 with the aim of developing methodsfor retrieving video documents by scarming the audiosoundtrack for keywords. The project has shown, both experimentallyand through the construction of a workingprototype, that speech recognition can be combined withinformation retrieval methods to locate multimedia docu-ments by content. The final version of the VMR systemuses ...