Audio Quality Monitoring Transcription for Teleconferences
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often face difficulties in hearing and understanding audio information during teleconferences due to poor audio quality, which existing information handling devices fail to adequately address.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that utilize a transcription module within information handling devices to monitor audio quality and automatically provide a textual representation of the audio information when it falls below a predetermined threshold, including options for users to receive this transcription.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If audio information is provided during teleconference, then communication function is achieved, but audio quality is poor and difficult to hear
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces text as an intermediary medium to bridge the gap between audio transmission and user comprehension. When audio quality deteriorates, the system provides textual representations of the audio content, allowing users to understand the communication without relying solely on degraded audio signals.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a textual copy of the audio information and provides it to users alongside or instead of the audio signal. This copy serves as an alternative representation that is not affected by audio quality issues, enabling users to comprehend the content even when audio transmission is poor.
2Ease of operation
If transcription action is performed automatically, then user understanding is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically monitors audio quality and triggers transcription actions without requiring user intervention. The monitoring component continuously assesses audio quality metrics, and when thresholds are breached, the transcription function is automatically activated, making the system self-regulating and reducing operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback loop where audio quality is continuously monitored and used to control the transcription function. When audio quality falls below a threshold, feedback triggers the transcription action; when quality improves, the transcription can be reduced or stopped, creating an adaptive system that responds to actual conditions.
Data Source
AI summary
Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for performing a transcription action. One apparatus includes at least one processor and a memory that stores code executable by the at least one processor. The code is executable by the processor to monitor, by use of the at least one processor, a quality of audio information. The code is executable by the processor to determine whether the quality of the audio information is below a predetermined threshold. The code is executable by the processor to, in response to determining that the quality of the audio information is below the predetermined threshold, perform a transcription action corresponding to the audio information.