Browsing archived meeting audio and time-synchronized data.
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Description: In a majority of meetings, speech and audio plays the most important role and therefore most of the meeting archives contain audio and some other data types, synchronized with it. Despite the importance of audio, its inherently sequential nature makes it difficult to be used as the guiding channel for browsing archives. In this thesis we describe the design and implementation of a prototype system for browsing archived meeting audio and other time-synchronized data using partially correct transcript for visualizing audio. We present a transcript based simultaneous-spatial audio browsing technique. This technique has been evaluated and found to be more efficient than the conventional interface for search tasks. It also allows an audio-data guided browsing of the archive. Furthermore, we present techniques for annotation and personalization of slide, audio and transcript data.
Notes: Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-01, page: 0405.

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