Treemaps to visualise and navigate speech audio

  • Authors:
  • Fahmi Abdulhamid;Stuart Marshall

  • Affiliations:
  • Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Audio recordings are usually treated as one unbreakable and sequential document. Most interfaces only support basic audio navigation controls such as play, pause, forward, and rewind. However, by extracting meaningful information from audio, such as the spoken words and acoustic noise, we have created a Treemap-based interface which makes the task of finding the important information in audio simple. When applied to lecture audio, our interface allows students to easily consume lecture recordings by only listening to the parts they are interested in. A user study shows that our interface can successfully help users to find content in lecture recordings.