The book describes the features and techniques related to audio search on
speech databases. Chapter 1 gives a detailed introduction to audio search, its types,
applications, evolution of techniques, databases, and platforms for benchmarking.
Different evaluation measures are discussed in Chap. 2. Chapter 3 explains various features, their representations and matching techniques for searching speech
databases. Chapters 4 and 5 describe different techniques for keyword spotting and
spoken term detection, respectively.
The book is intended for system developers as well as the academic and research
community