Improving speech playback using time-compression and speech recognition

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 295-302

  Vemuri, Sunil ^a   DeCamp, Philip ^a   Bender, Walter ^a   Schmandt, Chris ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Speech recognition; Time compressed audio

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STEREOPHONIC RECORDINGS; USER INTERFACES;

AUDIO PLAYBACK; PERSONAL RECORDINGS; SPEECH RECOGNIZERS; TIME-COMPRESSED AUDIO;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 4544349215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/985692.985730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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