Speech-recognition-assisted selective suppression of silent and filled speech pauses during playback of an audio recording
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1. A method for playback of speech in an audio recording, the method comprising:
- (a) performing full word-level recognition of the speech including recognition of one or more silent pauses or filled pauses;
(b) suppressing playback of one or more filled pauses or silent pauses;
(c) alerting a listener of the audio recording to locations of suppressed filled pauses or silent pauses during playback of the audio recording; and
(d) accepting a user command to disable suppression of one or more filled pauses or silent pauses during playback of the audio recording.
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Abstract
A method for playback of speech in an audio recording. The method comprises performing full word-level recognition of the speech including recognition of silent pauses and filled pauses, suppressing playback of the filled pauses and silent pauses, alerting a listener of the audio recording to locations of suppressed filled pauses and silent pauses during playback of the audio recording, and accepting a user command to disable suppression of any filled pause or silent pause during playback of the audio recording.
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1. A method for playback of speech in an audio recording, the method comprising:
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(a) performing full word-level recognition of the speech including recognition of one or more silent pauses or filled pauses; (b) suppressing playback of one or more filled pauses or silent pauses; (c) alerting a listener of the audio recording to locations of suppressed filled pauses or silent pauses during playback of the audio recording; and (d) accepting a user command to disable suppression of one or more filled pauses or silent pauses during playback of the audio recording. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for controlling playback of filled pauses during playback of speech in audio recordings, the method comprising:
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(a) performing full word-level recognition of the speech including recognition of filled pauses, wherein the act of performing recognition includes recognizing filled pauses as actual filled pauses only if a pattern of occurrence of the recognized filled pauses matches with a pattern of occurrence of filled pauses in speech; and (b) suppressing playback of the actual filled pauses. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An apparatus for playback of speech in an audio recording, the apparatus comprising:
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(a) a speech recognizer to perform full word-level recognition including recognition of silent pauses and filled pauses; (b) software containing instructions to suppress playback of silent pauses and filled pauses; and (c) a user interface to alert a listener of the audio recording to locations of suppressed filled pauses and silent pauses during playback of the audio recording and to allow a user to disable suppression of one ore more filled pauses or silent pauses during playback of the audio recording. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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