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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2021
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Morris Lee, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine the speed-up of media programs using speech recognition. An example apparatus disclosed herein is to perform speech recognition on a first audio clip collected by a media meter to recognize a first text string associated with the first audio clip, compare the first text string to a plurality of reference text strings associated with a corresponding plurality of reference audio clips to identify a matched one of the reference text strings, and estimate a presentation rate of the first audio clip based on a first time associated with the first audio clip and a second time associated with a first one of the reference audio clips corresponding to the matched one of the reference text strings.