Rough'n'Ready: a meeting recorder and browser

Abstract : The objective of this effort is to integrate and enhance existing technologies in speech recognition, speaker identification, and topic classification to provide cost-effective transcription, structural summarization, and retrieval of user-specified aspects of meetings. A software system consisting of a meeting recorder and browser was designed and developed to provide a higher level view of collaborative meetings, co-locational or distributed and a way to browse through and listen to those parts which are most relevant to the user.