Olive

Development of a multilingual indexing tool for broadcast material based on speech recognition

Summary

OLIVE is developing a system which automatically produces indexes from the sound track of a programme (television or radio). This allows archives to be searched by keywords and corresponding visual or soundtrack material to be retrieved. OLIVE broadens the applicability of Pop-Eye, which is using subtitles and video time codes to index broadcast material.

The system will facilitate production of broadcast material which incorporates existing radio and video material, for example, news and documentaries. It will also be a valuable tool for programme researchers designing new programmes and other content providers, such as advertisers. Through the provision of bibliographic material, transcripts and video stills, the system will save time by allowing material to be pre-viewed before it is actually retrieved from an archive.

Official Olive homepage at TNO

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Project Duration and Funding

Olive is funded by the European Commission, DG XIII
Telematics Applications Programme
Language Engineering Sector

Olive started May 1,1998 and wil last until August 31, 2000.

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Contact Information

prof. dr. F.M.G. de Jong
Department of Computer Science/CTIT, University of Twente
Postbus 217
7500 AE ENSCHEDE
Tel.: +31 53 4894193

Last modified 3 September 1998 by Thijs Westerveld