The spoken web search task at MediaEval 2011

In this paper, we describe the "Spoken Web Search" Task, which was held as part of the 2011 MediaEval benchmark campaign. The purpose of this task was to perform audio search with audio input in four languages, with very few resources being available in each language. The data was taken from "spoken web" material collected over mobile phone connections by IBM India. We present results from several independent systems, developed by five teams and using different approaches, compare them, and provide analysis and directions for future research. © 2012 IEEE.