The University of Twente (University of Twente) is an “entrepreneurial research university”. Researchers of the Human Media Interaction (HMI) group work on improving access to the spoken word and to multimedia archives in general, through the application of speech and language technology, see HMI Group.
The Human Media Interaction (HMI) speech group uses ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) software to analyze spoken audio recordings. The automatically generated transcription of the words spoken in the audio recording is not always correct. Preferably, for search applications word error rates (WER) should be under 25%; automatically generated indexes should not be released to users if this threshold is not met.
