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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2005
Qian HU, Lexington, MA (US);
Fred J. Goodman, Montgomery Village, MD (US);
Stanley M. Boykin, Stoughton, MA (US);
Randall K. Fish, Dillsburg, PA (US);
Warren R. Greiff, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Qian Hu, Lexington, MA (US);
Fred J. Goodman, Montgomery Village, MD (US);
Stanley M. Boykin, Stoughton, MA (US);
Randall K. Fish, Dillsburg, PA (US);
Warren R. Greiff, Chelmsford, MA (US);
The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA (US);
Abstract
Audio hot spotting is accomplished by specifying query criterion to include a non-lexical audio cue. The non-lexical audio cue can be, e.g., speech rate, laughter, applause, vocal effort, speaker change or any combination thereof. The query criterion is retrieved from an audio portion of a file. A segment of the file containing the query criterion can be provided to a user. The duration of the provided segment can be specified by the user along with the files to be searched. A list of detections of the query criterion within the file can also be provided to the user. Searches can be refined by the query criterion additionally including a lexical audio-cue. A keyword index of topic terms contained in the file can also be provided to the user.