VoiceAssist - Guiding Users to High-Quality Voice Recordings

Explore a conference talk on VoiceAssist, an innovative system designed to help novice users create high-quality voice recordings. Delve into the challenges faced by newcomers in voice recording, including issues with reverberation and background noise. Learn about the integration of modern audio quality measures into an interactive human-machine feedback loop, providing real-time visual feedback to users. Discover the results of a user study demonstrating the effectiveness of this feedback in producing recordings preferred by third-party listeners. Gain insights into the system's interface, audio quality measures, and evaluation methods. Understand how this technology can revolutionize the way inexperienced users approach voice recording, potentially improving the overall quality of amateur audio content.

Introduction
Audacity
Interface
Speech Transition Index
SignaltoNoise Ratio
SignaltoNoise Examples
SignaltoNoise Demo
Early Design
The Experiment
Baseline Interface
Initial Setup
User Study Results
User Instructions
User Study Examples
Audio Quality Measures
Audio Quality Evaluation
Conclusion