Title
Audio cloud: creation and rendering
Abstract
Word clouds are extensively used to present a summary of the prominent words in a document on the World Wide Web. Such clouds give the user an idea about the content of the document. In this paper we present a mechanism to create and render an audio cloud for audio content. Such audio clouds are expected to provide a similar summary of the audio documents. They have wide applicability in various domains, especially for low-literate users who currently do not use the Internet but interact with audio-based systems. Detecting words from an audio content is challenging, especially if the audio is in languages for which a speech recognition system does not exist. We present a language-independent mechanism to detect frequently occurring words within an audio document. We then present four ways to render these words that form an audio cloud. The four prototypes for rendering the audio cloud are based on varying the amplitude, the voice quality, echo and the repetition of audio words. An evaluation study conducted across 32 users suggests that literate and low-literate users easily understand the concept of audio cloud.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2166966.2167017
IUI
Keywords
Field
DocType
detecting word,word cloud,similar summary,audio document,audio word,language-independent mechanism,audio cloud,audio content,low-literate user,world wide web,voice quality,speech recognition
Audio mining,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Rendering (computer graphics),Multimedia,Acoustic model,Cloud computing,The Internet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
4
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jitendra Ajmera131931.60
Om Deshmukh2252.97
Anupam Jain324016.34
Amit A. Nanavati461952.44
Nitendra Rajput553062.14
Saurabh Srivastava618419.27