ISCA Archive Interspeech 2017
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2017

A System for Real Time Collaborative Transcription Correction

Peter Bell, Joachim Fainberg, Catherine Lai, Mark Sinclair

We present a system to enable efficient, collaborative human correction of ASR transcripts, designed to operate in real-time situations, for example, when post-editing live captions generated for news broadcasts. In the system, confusion networks derived from ASR lattices are used to highlight low-confident words and present alternatives to the user for quick correction. The system uses a client-server architecture, whereby information about each manual edit is posted to the server. Such information can be used to dynamically update the one-best ASR output for all utterances currently in the editing pipeline. We propose to make updates in three different ways; by finding a new one-best path through an existing ASR lattice consistent with the correction received; by identifying further instances of out-of-vocabulary terms entered by the user; and by adapting the language model on the fly. Updates are received asynchronously by the client.


Cite as: Bell, P., Fainberg, J., Lai, C., Sinclair, M. (2017) A System for Real Time Collaborative Transcription Correction. Proc. Interspeech 2017, 817-818

@inproceedings{bell17_interspeech,
  author={Peter Bell and Joachim Fainberg and Catherine Lai and Mark Sinclair},
  title={{A System for Real Time Collaborative Transcription Correction}},
  year=2017,
  booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2017},
  pages={817--818}
}