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Learn about a method to accelerate audio playback for quicker information absorption by discarding less important segments gradually with enhanced speed adjustment. Discover steps like stop words listing, POS tagging to assess utterance content ensuring faster comprehension.
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Speech Summarization for Rapid Playback Charles DuHadway
Searching Audio • Searching audio is painful • Best tool: • Pitch adjusted speedup • Good up to 2x speedup • My idea: • Progressively throw away least informative parts • Allows for arbitrary speedup
Finding the unimportant parts • List of stop words • POS tagging (including disfluencies) • Estimate information content of each utterance:
Results • Original: 1x • Pitch corrected: 2x • My approach: 2x • Pitch corrected: 4x • My approach: 5x • My approach: 10x • My approach: 50x