Rough n Ready: A Meeting Recorder and Browser Francis Kubala, Sean Colbath, Daben Liu, John Makhoul BBN Technologies, GTE One of the elusive goals of collaborative technology is the ability to automatically record the proceedings of meetings, presentations, or conferences, then capture their gist and browse their contents. Meetings and presentations are natural means of exchanging information wherever people collaborate. But most meetings are not summarized in minutes so their contents are forever lost to anyone who wasn t in attendance. Moreover, the exact contents of the meetings are generally not available to anyone after the event takes place because large repositories of audio-visual data are opaque to browsers and search engines. We are building a meeting recorder and browser that will automatically produce a ROUGH transcription of what was said along with a content-based structural summarization of the audio recording that is READY for browsing. The summarization meta-data will provide a framework for data visualization and serve as an index for efficient navigation of large audio archives. The basis of the structural summarization is the automatic transcription produced by our state-of-the-art large vocabulary speech recognition system (Byblos) which is described in [6]. On top of the transcription,
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