Catching up in audio conferences
Ari Hautasaari, Naomi Yamashita · 2014
Previous works suggest that non-native speakers (NNS) may benefit from viewing textual transcripts of spoken dialogue generated by automated speech recognition (ASR) technology during audio conferences. However, viewing ASR transcripts while listening to the ongoing conversation may impose a higher cognitive load on NNS, especially in adverse audio conditions. We examined how automatically highlighted keywords in real-time ASR transcripts might benefit NNS when catching up on missed parts of an audio conference by reviewing a speeded up (1.6x) audio playback of the missed conversation.