A Smart Audio User Interface to Access Large Digital Audio Archives on Handheld Devices

Increasing availability of handheld players and other multimedia mobile devices with larger storage capacity has led to a rapid increases in the amount of audio information on a single device. This calls for new ways to efficiently access audio and multimedia information stored on such deeply embedded devices. Handsfree audio interfaces and semantic information retrieval are two primary requirements for the next generation of handheld multimedia devices. Voice and audio input can be used to build an audio-user interface, as well as to query large audio archives stored on these devices. Soft computing methods, such as fuzzy logic, were used to model a smart logic audio interface that reduces system complexity and increases reliability when accessing audio stored information.