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In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of a phoneme-based approach of spoken document retrieval. We propose improvements in the detection of keywords by expanding the phonetic context around the requests. The evaluation is done using the French ESTER corpus with 193 country names and it shows that expanding the phonetic contexts improves significantly the precision of the baseline system without...