Development of note-taking support system with speech interface

This paper describes a note-taking support system with a speech interface. To solve problems with existing note-taking methods, we implemented a speech interface consisting of a combination of a touch panel and graphical user interface in a note-taking support system. As a system user listens to a speech, the content of the speech is recognized and displayed on the system´s screen. Users can take notes by simply touching or tracing the words automatically displayed on the screen. In addition, the system can support keyboard and handwritten input to cope with speech recognition errors. The developed system was experimentally compared with another note-taking method, a text editor on a personal computer. Most of the subjects could take a note more quickly using the system than using the text editor. The effectiveness of the system was demonstrated in the experiment.