NLP Master project entitled „BigBlueButton video conference transcription and keyword lookup extension" from LT group won EXPO 2020
23 October 2020, by Seid Muhie Yimam
Congratulations to Fabian Rausch and Felix Welter !!!
Fabian Rausch and Felix Welter, who are currently participating in the "Master project Web Interfaces for Language Processing Systems" of the summer semester 2020, have won the EXPO 2020 (https://basecamp-demos.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/expo2020/).
Title of the project: BigBlueButton transcription and information lookup
Demo:
Description:
The ongoing pandemic has increased the demand for digital collaboration software in different areas like professional work, social communities, and education. BigBlueButton is an open-source video conferencing software which is used for synchronous digital lectures and seminars at the Hamburg University.
This software was extended by a speech-to-text transcription service (Kaldi), which is used to show the spoken text within the BBB meeting for every single user. From the transcribed text, every user can click on phrases or keywords and immediately additional information is presented in the meeting room of this particular user.
Information sources can be added easily which allows adapting the application to different scenarios. Wikipedia and lecture slides are already indexed. There are lots of application areas where these extensions are of immense value. For example, it is possible for students in lectures or employees in a professional meeting, if they do not know the meaning of a particular term and want to follow the meeting without getting distracted more than necessary.
Due to the software architecture, the user does not need to install any software on its local machine. For a demonstration take a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK8hGMGa0G4&feature=youtu.be
Developers: fabian.rausch@studium.uni-hamburg.de and felix.welter@studium.uni-hamburg.de
More information:
Project video demo YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK8hGMGa0G4&feature=youtu.be
Project video on Mafiasi Cloud: https://cloud.mafiasi.de/s/mA2DARd9Ff8EkMx
Original project website from EXPO: https://basecamp-demos.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/expo2020/entries/bigbluebutton-transcription-and-information-lookup/
The technical documentation on UHH Gitlab: https://gitlab.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/bay1620/wilps-related-items