Star challenge to build the next-generation of multi-media search engines. A US$100,000 cash prize awaits the winners of this world-class competition

The Star challenge is a race to build the next-generation of multi-media search engines. A US$100,000 cash prize awaits the winners of this world-class competition. The objective of the search challenge is to encourage participation from international teams to develop new, interesting and practical search techniques.

The voice search challenge consists of three subtasks, as outlined below:

1. Search by IPA
The query is given in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), the task is to retrieve all segments that contain the query IPA sequence regardless of its spoken languages;
2. Search by example
The query is an utterance spoken by different speakers, the task is to retrieve all segments that contain the query word/phrase/sentence regardless of its spoken languages;
3. Search for recurrent voice segments In the voice archive, certain word/phrase/sentences are repeated more than once in the content. The task is to extract all recurrent segments which are at least 15 seconds in length. No query is given in this case. The number of unique recurrent segments for each document is given.

More at:http://www.thestarchallenge.sg/