SpeechSkimmer

Arons, Barry

doi:10.1145/168642.168661

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“…Silent pauses are one of the acoustic cues to clausal units along with pitch and vowel duration (Seidl & Cristià, 2008). Silent pauses at grammatical boundaries are claimed to help listener comprehension by indicating the boundaries of speech to be analyzed, and by providing cognitive processing time (e.g., Arons, 1993; Griffiths, 1991; Reich, 1980, Sugito, 1990), whereas pauses within clauses may be disrupting. In Reich (1980), propositions were recalled more accurately in sentences containing pauses between clauses than in sentences containing pauses within clauses.…”

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“…There are a few studies that seem to suggest that pauses within a clause and between clauses may have differential effects on listeners. They argue that silent pauses at grammatical boundaries may help listener comprehension as they enable them to understand and keep pace with the utterance by indicating the boundaries of speech to be analyzed, and providing cognitive processing time (Arons, 1993; Griffiths, 1991; Reich, 1980, Sugito, 1990). Pauses at grammatical junctures are claimed to be important for comprehension, and eliminating them can interfere with comprehension (Lass & Leeper, 1977).…”

Section: Effects Of Disfluencies Within a Clause On Listenersmentioning

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“…Pauses at grammatical junctures are claimed to be important for comprehension, and eliminating them can interfere with comprehension (Lass & Leeper, 1977). However, Arons (1993) maintains that only pauses between clauses or structural pauses (i.e., pauses between items of information in lists of meaningful trigrams such as IBM [pause] KGB [pause] PHD) are useful; pauses within clauses or nonstructural pauses (e.g., DIB [pause] MKG [pause] BPH) can interfere with speech perception processing (Bower & Springston, 1970; Griffiths, 1991; Reich, 1980; Sugito, 1990). In Reich (1980), propositions were recalled more accurately in sentences containing pauses between clauses than in sentences containing pauses within clauses.…”

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The effect of pause location on perceived fluency

Kahng

2017

Applied Psycholinguistics

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Speech disfluency in first language (L1) and second language (L2) is not only quantitatively different (e.g., number and length of pauses) but also qualitatively different (e.g., distribution of pauses); however, how pause distributions in L1 and L2 affect judgments of perceived fluency is unclear. The study examined the relationship between pause phenomena and perceived fluency using two experiments. Experiment 1 investigated the relative contributions of frequency, length, and distribution of silent pauses to perceived fluency of L2 speech. Experiment 2 tested causal effects of pause location on perceived fluency of L1 and L2 speech using phonetic manipulations. Findings suggest a significant role of pause location in perceived fluency. In Experiment 1, silent pause rate within a clause demonstrated the strongest correlation with L2 fluency ratings, and in Experiment 2, perceived fluency of L1 and L2 speech was influenced by pause location. The findings suggest that listeners seem to be sensitive to pause location and to understand that pauses within clauses tend to reflect reduced cognitive fluency.

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The effect of pause location on perceived fluency

Kahng

2017

Applied Psycholinguistics

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“…SpeechSkimmer [6] supports auditory skimming of recorded speech by condensing pauses and structuring audio based on pause duration and non-speech sounds. Transcripts can be used as proxy to audio content for visual skimming and help spotting keywords by highlighting words with high confidence scores from speech recognizer output [57,59].…”

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“…Provide ways to adjust speech rate dynamically. The user should be able to adjust the speech rate dynamically [6,35]. Further, our Needs-Finding Study suggested that the user should be able to control the speech rate without stopping the narration currently underway or having to go to sub-menu level hierarchy.…”

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Designing an Eyes-Reduced Document Skimming App for Situational Impairments

Khan

Yoon

McGrenere

2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Listening to text using read-aloud applications is a popular way for people to consume content when their visual attention is situationally impaired (e.g., commuting, walking, tired eyes). However, due to the linear nature of audio, such apps do not support skimming-a non-linear, rapid form of readingessential for quickly grasping the gist and organization of difficult texts, like academic or professional documents. To support auditory skimming for situational impairments, we (1) identified the user needs and challenges in auditory skimming through a formative study (N=20), (2) derived the concept of "eyes-reduced" skimming that blends auditory and visual modes of reading, inspired by how our participants mixed visual and non-visual interactions, (3) generated a set of design guidelines for eyes-reduced skimming, and (4) designed and evaluated a novel audio skimming app that embodies the guidelines. Our in-situ preliminary observation study (N=6) suggested that participants were positive about our design and were able to auditorily skim documents. We discuss design implications for eyes-reduced reading, read-aloud apps, and text-to-speech engines.

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SpeechSkimmer

Cited by 47 publications

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The effect of pause location on perceived fluency

The effect of pause location on perceived fluency

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