31. An apparatus for cross media indexing, registering, and retrieving speech documents, the apparatus comprising: an interface configured to receive a set of documents; a pre-processor configured to transcribe the set of documents and tokenize the transcriptions to create counts for index terms and phonemes; a computing device configured to compute a term-phoneme/document matrix, normalize the term-phoneme/document matrix, and compute a vector space from the normalized term-phoneme/document matrix; a database configured to store the vector space and the counts; a query engine configured to search the vector space for documents closest to a query vector.
32. The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the interface is further configured to receive one or more new documents and wherein the computing device is further configured to add vectors of the one or more new documents to the vector space.