Speech-recognition-assisted selective suppression of silent and filled speech pauses during playback of an audio recording

摘要

A method for playback of speech in an audio recording. The method comprises performing full word-level recognition of the speech including recognition of silent pauses and filled pauses, suppressing playback of the filled pauses and silent pauses, alerting a listener of the audio recording to locations of suppressed filled pauses and silent pauses during playback of the audio recording, and accepting a user command to disable suppression of any filled pause or silent pause during playback of the audio recording.