ICSI Speech Technology Excelled at NIST Evaluations

^{June 5, 2006}
ICSI speech processing technology excelled in the recent National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) evaluations. The ICSI Speaker Diarization system and the ICSI/SRI Speech-to-Text (STT) system performed extremely well in all test conditions that were entered in the NIST evals. More information about this year's evals is available from the NIST 2006 Rich Transcription Eval Site. Although NIST regulations prevent comparing ICSI's results to those of other participating labs, complete results are available from the NIST website:
Speaker Diarization results (.pdf file)
STT results (.pdf file)

Chuck Wooters, Xavier Anguera, and Jose Manuel Pardo worked on ICSI's diarization technology, and along with a team from SRI International, Adam Janin, Andreas Stolcke, Xavier Anguera, Chuck Wooters, Kofi Boakye, Ozgur Cetin, and Joe Frankel worked on STT. This year's performance followed similarly strong showings for diarization and STT in 2004 and 2005.