Warping Time for More Effective Real-Time Crowdsourcing
Walter S. Lasecki, Christopher D. Miller, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2013 · Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013)
This paper introduces TimeWarp, a technique that manipulates audio playback speed to improve crowd workers performance on real-time speech captioning. The core problem is that non-expert typists cannot keep up with natural speaking rates of 150-225 words per minute, forcing them…
real-time captioning · crowdsourcing · deaf and hard of hearing · human computation · speech accessibility