Method of navigating in a sound content

• US 8,942,980 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2011
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Le Mer, Pascal, Charlet, Delphine, Denjean, Marc, Gonot, Antoine
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Vivian
• Assistant Examiner(s): TON, DAVID L
• Application Number:
  US13/025,372
• Publication Number:
  US 20110311059A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: 381/1, 381/17, 381/18, 700/94, 715/727, 704/251, 704/E15.001
• US Class Current: 704/251
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/64 Browsing; Visualisation therefor generation of a list or set of audio data G06F16/638
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/025 'Virtual' control panels, e.g. Graphical User Interface [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence

Abstract

A method of navigating in a sound content wherein at least one key word is stored in association with at least two positions representative of said key word in the sound content, and wherein the method comprises: a step of displaying a representation of the sound content; during playback of the sound content, a step of detecting a current extract representative of a key word stored at a first position; a step of determining at least one second extract representative of said key word and a second position as a function of the stored positions; and a step of highlighting the position of the extracts in the representation of the sound content.

The invention also relates to a system adapted to implement the navigation method.

Claims

1. A method of navigating in a given sound content, wherein at least one key word is stored in association with at least two positions representative of said key word in the sound content, and wherein the method comprises the steps:

displaying a representation of the sound content;

during playback of the sound content, detecting that the current playback position corresponds to one of the positions previously stored;

obtaining a keyword stored in association with said current position and at least one second position as a function of the positions stored in association with said keyword; and

highlighting the current playback position and the at least one second position in the representation of the sound content.

2. The navigation method according to claim 1, further comprising:

following reception of a user request, stopping the sound being played back followed by a step of playing back the content from the second position.

3. The navigation method according to claim 1, wherein playback of the currently spoken extract is followed by a step of playing back at least one determined extract.

4. The navigation method according to claim 1, wherein the sound content is represented in the form of a circle, a position on this circle representing a chronological position in the content, and wherein the highlighting step comprises a step of displaying a link between the first position and the second.

5. The navigation method according to claim 1, wherein the content is subdivided into segments and the representation of the content is a segmented representation and the highlighting step includes highlighting the segment containing the currently spoken extract and highlighting at least one segment containing at least one second extract.

6. The navigation method according to claim 5, wherein a represented segment is selectable via a user interface.

12. A non-transitory computer program product comprising instructions for executing the navigation method according to claim 1 when it is loaded into and executed by a processor.

7. A method of navigating in a sound content, wherein at least one key word is stored in association with at least two positions representative of said key word in the sound content, the method comprising:

displaying a representation of the sound content back on a set of loudspeakers spaced apart around a circle;

playing back the sound content on a set of loudspeakers spaced apart around the circle;

during playback of the sound content, detecting a currently spoken extract representative of a key word previously stored at a first position;

determining at least one second extract representative of said key word and a second position as a function of the stored positions;

playing back the currently spoken extract on a first loudspeaker of the set of loudspeakers;

playing back the determined at least one second extract simultaneously on a second loudspeaker of the set, wherein the loudspeakers are selected as a function of the position of the at least one second extract on the circle representing the sound content; and

highlighting the position of the extracts in the representation of the sound content by displaying a link between the first position and the second position.

8. The navigation method according to claim 7, wherein the loudspeakers are virtual loudspeakers of a binaural playback system.

9. The navigation method according to claim 7, wherein the sound level of the signal emitted by the first loudspeaker is greater than the sound level of the signal emitted by the second loudspeaker.

10. A device for navigating in a given sound content, wherein the device comprises:

a memory that stores at least one key word in association with at least two positions representative of said key word in the sound content;

a processor that;

displays a representation of the sound content;

detects that the current playback position corresponds to one of the positions previously stored;

obtains a keyword stored in association with said current position and at least one second position as a function of the positions stored in association with said keyword; and

that highlights the current playback position and the at least one second position in the representation of the sound content.

11. The navigation system comprising a playback device according to claim 10 and at least two loudspeakers.