Puyuan Peng

TalkLess: Blending Extractive and Abstractive Speech Summarization for Editing Speech to Preserve Content and Style

Millions of people listen to podcasts, audio stories, and lectures, but editing speech remains tedious and time-consuming. Creators remove unnecessary words, cut tangential discussions, and even re-record speech to make recordings concise and engaging. Prior work automatically summarized speech by removing full senten…