Abstract: Broadcast news play an important role in our lives providing access to news, information and entertainment. The existence of an automatic transcription is an important medium that not only can provide subtitles for inclusion of people with special needs or be an advantage on noisy and populated environments, but also because it enables data search and retrieve capabilities over the multimedia streams. In this work we will describe and evaluate the automatic speech recognition systems developed for two Iberian languages, European Portuguese and Spanish and also for Brazilian Portuguese, African Portuguese and English. The developed systems are fully automatic and capable to subtitling in real-time Broadcast News stream with a very small delay.
Index Terms: Speech Recognition, Broadcast News, Iberian languages, Online processing.