SpeechSkimmer: Interactively skimming recorded speech

UIST 1993 - Proceedings of the 6th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 1993, Pages 187-196

  Arons, Barry ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Browsing; Interactive listening; Non speech audio; Speech as data; Speech detection; Speech skimming; Speech user interfaces; Time compression

Indexed keywords

AUDIO RECORDINGS; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BROWSING; INTERACTIVE LISTENING; NON-SPEECH AUDIO; SPEECH DETECTION; SPEECH SKIMMING; SPEECH USER INTERFACES; TIME COMPRESSION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 85003876001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/168642.168661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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