SpeechBalloon: A New Approach of Providing User Interface for Real-Time Generation of Meeting Notes

Donghyeon Kim, Suyeon Yoon, Jiyoung Seo, SeungHoon Jeong, Bowon Lee

Abstract: This paper proposes SpeechBalloon, a solution for real-time generation of meeting notes for the purpose of facilitating effective communications among participants. This is especially important when some of the participants have hearing problems. To provide an assistive technology for the hearing-impaired, the proposed solution, consisting of a device application running speech-to-text and a server collecting the information from each device, provides users with meeting notes. The advantage of our proposed system is that it does not require any specific hardware for note taking as long as each meeting participant brings his/her own device such as a smartphone or a tablet. We expect our proposed SpeechBalloon can help hearing-impaired people to actively participate in real meetings and overcome any inconveniences that they have due to their disabilities.