Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Searching recorded audio for instances of a keyword is a t ime-consuming activity for humans. Forinstance, it may take hours for a person to listen to recorded audio to find a part of the recorded audio thatthe person was looking for. To date, machine learning algorithms to perform this activity have met withsignificant challenges. This problem may be compounded in the situ ation wherein the searcher speaks afirst language, but desires to search an aud io recording of a second language.”