System and methods for enabling applications of who-is-speaking (WIS) signals
First Claim
1. A system for enabling controlled application of derived who-is-speaking indications related to activity of participants to a live multiparty communications conference or recorded output thereof including:
- a first node hosting a conference bridging switch, software or a combination thereof, having multiple conference input channels;
a second node having data access to at least an output signal port of the conference bridging switch, software, or a combination thereof, and a software application distributed wholly to the first or second node, or in parts to the first and second node, the application used to apply the who is speaking indications to output communications, data files, or data streams, forwarded to one of, a select potion of, or combination of, the conference participants, non-participant third parties, and one or more storage facilities.
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Abstract
A system for enabling controlled application of derived who-is-speaking indications related to activity of participants to a live multiparty communications conference or recorded outputs. The system includes a first node hosting a conference bridging switch, software or a combination thereof, having multiple conference input channels; a second node having data access to at least an output signal port of the conference bridging switch, software, or a combination thereof, and a software application distributed wholly to the first or second node, or in parts to the first and second node. The application is used to apply the who is speaking indications to output communications, data files, or data streams, forwarded to one of, a select potion of, or combination of, the conference participants, non-participant third parties, and one or more storage facilities.
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1. A system for enabling controlled application of derived who-is-speaking indications related to activity of participants to a live multiparty communications conference or recorded output thereof including:
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a first node hosting a conference bridging switch, software or a combination thereof, having multiple conference input channels;
a second node having data access to at least an output signal port of the conference bridging switch, software, or a combination thereof, and a software application distributed wholly to the first or second node, or in parts to the first and second node, the application used to apply the who is speaking indications to output communications, data files, or data streams, forwarded to one of, a select potion of, or combination of, the conference participants, non-participant third parties, and one or more storage facilities. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An audio content transcription and annotation system for rendering annotated text transcription of live or recorded speech from a multiparty conference session enabled by a conference bridging switch, software, or a combination thereof having multiple conference input channels and for annotating the transcribed text files with who-is-speaking data including:
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an input port for receiving the audio content;
a time synchronization module for recording temporal offsets of changes in a channel activity signal relevant to conference session run time;
a channel to speaker association module; and
a text annotation engine;
characterized in that the transcribed text files are annotated according to indication of signal changes over time with relevance to audible words, phrases or segments of the content found within the scope of time periods existing in between the signal changes. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. A method for transcribing and annotating live or recorded speech from a multiparty conference session enabled by a conference bridging switch, software, or a combination thereof having multiple conference input channels, the annotations indicative of who-is-speaking including steps for:
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(a) receiving the speech files for text transcription;
(b) accessing a channel activity signal temporally associated with the speech files;
(c) inserting fields or place holders into the documents during text transcription, the fields or placeholders inserted according to time of occurrence in the document;
(d) retrieving channel-to-speaker association data for each field or placeholder; and
,(e) inserting the annotations into the appropriate fields. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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17. A system for searching conference archives for information relevant to recorded content of a multiparty conference, the record temporally annotated with speaker identification and other information or locators thereto including:
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a first node hosting a search engine and interface;
a second node capable of accessing the first node over a network; and
at least one repository containing the conference records in the form of transcribed text files linked or not linked to appropriate multimedia audio files or audio/video files;
characterized in that information searched may include speaker identifications using content keywords or phrasing as input, instances of repeated content spoken by a speaker using a combination of speaker identification parameters and content keywords or phrasing as input, and rich presence information including statistics using speaker identification as input. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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