Shared resources for robust speech-to-text technology

Abstract This paper ,describes ,ongoing ,efforts at Linguistic ,Data Consortium to create shared resources for improved,speech-totext technology. Under the DARPA EARS program, technology providers are charged with creating STT systems whose outputs are substantially richer and much,more accurate than is currently ,possible. These aggressive program ,goals motivate new,approaches,to corpus,creation and distribution. EARS participants ,require ,multilingual ,broadcast ,and telephone speech data, transcripts and annotations at a much higher volume,than for any previous program. While standard approaches,to resource ,collection ,and ,creation ,are prohibitively expensive for this volume of material, within EARS new ,methods ,have been established to allow ,for the development of vast quantities of audio, transcripts and annotations. New ,distribution methods ,also provide ,for efficient deployment ,of needed ,resources ,to participating research sites as well ,as enabling ,eventual publication to a wider community,of language researchers.