Audible, Inc.

Pooja Chitrakar

Timothy Krein

Yiming Zhao

Devices and methods are provided for extracting content from audio files. The device may determine starting and ending quotation marks in a text file, and a string between the starting and ending quotation marks. The device may determine that a verb is near the starting quotation mark or the ending quotation mark. The device may determine, based on the verb, that the string is attributed to a character name in the text file. The device may determine a first time in a first audio file including an audio representation of the text file, and may determine a second time in the first audio file, wherein the first time is before the first word and the second time is after the second word. The device may generate a second audio file by extracting audio from the first audio file based on the first and second times.

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Burlington, MA, United States of America

Pooja Chitrakar