Voice Playback Positioning With Transcript Tooltip Context

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Solution Overview

Problem

Identifying the playback position of voice data during playback requires time and effort as users need to confirm the position by operating a seek bar and searching for corresponding text, which is inefficient.

Innovation Solution

A program that allows users to specify a playback position of voice data and displays the associated text on a tool tip, facilitating quick identification of the playback position.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users manually search for corresponding text transcribed from voice data to identify playback position, then they can locate the playback position, but it requires time and effort

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplayback position identification accuracyVSAvoidtime required to locate playback position

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces text transcription as an intermediary element between voice data and playback position identification. By displaying the transcribed text alongside the audio playback, users can visually locate their position in the content without manually searching through audio timestamps or scrolling through raw transcripts, thus reducing time while maintaining accurate position identification

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical manual searching process with an automated text display system. Instead of users manually correlating audio playback position with transcript lines, the system automatically displays and synchronizes the corresponding text segment with the current playback position, eliminating the manual search effort while preserving precise position identification

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Measurement precision

If users manually search for corresponding text to identify playback position, then they can locate the position, but the operation becomes complicated

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplayback position identification accuracyVSAvoidease of locating playback position

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The transcribed text serves as an intermediary that simplifies the operation of locating playback position. Users can directly read and identify their position in the displayed text rather than manually correlating audio timecodes with transcript lines, making the operation more intuitive and easier to perform

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-service by automatically displaying and synchronizing the relevant text segment with the current playback position. This eliminates the need for users to manually search or correlate information, as the system automatically presents the correct text context, thereby improving ease of operation while maintaining position identification accuracy

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12632215B2Recording medium, information processing apparatus, and information processing method

Publication Date: 2026.05.19 RICOH CO LTD

AI summary

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute a process performed in an information processing apparatus that plays back voice data, the process including receiving, from a user, an operation of specifying a playback position of the voice data; and displaying a text of a voice to be played back from the playback position, based on the operation of specifying the playback position.