Computerized intelligent assistant for conferences

Abstract

A method for facilitating a remote conference includes receiving a digital video and a computer-readable audio signal. A face recognition machine is operated to recognize a face of a first conference participant in the digital video, and a speech recognition machine is operated to translate the computer-readable audio signal into a first text. An attribution machine attributes the text to the first conference participant. A second computer-readable audio signal is processed similarly, to obtain a second text attributed to a second conference participant. A transcription machine automatically creates a transcript including the first text attributed to the first conference participant and the second text attributed to the second conference participant.

1 . At least one computer-storage device embodying computer-usable instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, implement a method comprising:
 obtaining information identifying a participant of a meeting;   generating a transcript of the meeting by at least converting audio of a conversation by the participant to text;   tracking an event of interest to the participant occurring during the meeting by at least generating a reviewable transcript based on the transcript and the event of interest; and   providing a notification of the reviewable transcript to the participant.   
     
     
         2 . The at least one computer-storage device of  claim 1 , wherein the event of interest is recorded in the reviewable transcript and includes at least one of: arrivals of participants, departures of participants, video captured during the meeting, visual information shared by participants, digital information shared by participants, data generated by a companion device, gestures performed by participant, and interactions by the participants. 
     
     
         3 . The at least one computer-storage device of  claim 1 , wherein the reviewable transcript includes information correlating the evens of interest with the transcript based on timestamps included in the transcript. 
     
     
         4 . The at least one computer-storage device of  claim 1 , wherein the notification of the reviewable transcript to the participant is provided to the participant during the meeting. 
     
     
         5 . The at least one computer-storage device of  claim 1 , wherein the notification is provided to a companion device associated with the participant. 
     
     
         6 . The at least one computer-storage device of  claim 1 , wherein the reviewable transcript includes a digital image or a video captured during the meeting corresponding to the event of interest. 
     
     
         7 . The at least one computer-storage device of  claim 1 , wherein the reviewable transcript includes a set of transcript entries indicating information associated with the event of interest, at least one transcript entry indicating an arrival of the participant to the meeting. 
     
     
         8 . The at least one computer-storage device of  claim 7 , comprising determining the arrival of the participant based on at least one of: a signature associated with the participant; a set of users invited to the meeting, audio capture during the meeting, video captured during the meeting, and natural language features of the transcript. 
     
     
         9 . A system comprising:
 at least one processor;   at least one storage device storing computer-usable instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, implement operations comprising:
 determining a meeting including a participant has started; 
 identifying the participant; 
 generating a reviewable transcript including information relevant to the participant by at least:
 converting audio of the meeting to text; and 
 detecting a event of the meeting; and 
 providing a notification of the reviewable transcript to the participant. 
 
   
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein the event includes an arrival of a second participant to the meeting. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 10 , the operations further comprising detecting the arrival of the second participant, wherein generating the reviewable transcript including the information relevant to the participant is performed in response to detecting the arrival of the second participant. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein the information relevant to the participant includes information recorded during an interval of time during the meeting when the first participant was absent based on an arrival of the participant to the meeting. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein identifying the participant further comprises identifying the participant based on the participant being at least one of: an invited participant, a colleague of the invited participant, and an individual with access to location the meeting is being held. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein identifying the participant further comprises prompting the participant to provide further identifying information by at least providing a question to a companion device associated with the participant. 
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 9 , the operations further comprising collecting, in response to identifying the participant, audio information or video information associated with the participant to update a signature associated with the participant, where the signature is used to identify the participant. 
     
     
         16 . A method comprising:
 determining a participant of a meeting;   detecting an event occurring during the meeting relevant to the participant;   generating a reviewable transcript for the participant including text converted from audio of the meeting and the event; and   providing the reviewable transcript to the participant.   
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 16 , wherein the method further comprises generating a second reviewable transcript for a second participant including a second event that is distinct from the event. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 16 , wherein the reviewable transcript further comprises a sentiment analysis associated with the participant and indicating sentiment-related words obtained from the text converted from the audio of the meeting. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 16 , wherein the reviewable transcript further comprises a participation summary associated with the participant indicating the event is attributable to the participant. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 16 , wherein an event of the subset of events includes a task assigned to the participant during the meeting.