The present invention is directed to a system, method and computer program
for enabling an auditor of a live speech to access immediately after or
at a later time, complementary information related with terms pronounced
during this speech. The system associates hyperlinks (i.e., URLs) with
selected terms or words likely to be pronounced by the speaker in the
course of the speech. A speech recognition system operating on a speaker
device (i.e., a computing system a with a microphone connected to it)
recognizes during the speech (i.e., word spotting) the pronunciation by
the speaker of anyone of said hyperlinked terms, and records the time at
which each recognized hyperlinked term has been pronounced. The system is
also based on the synchronization of the speaker device with several
auditors devices (e.g., workstations, portable computers, personal
digital assistants--PDAs, smart phones, or any other type of handheld
computing devices) according to a same universal time, so that the flow
of information transmitted by the speaker and received by the auditors is
always synchronized, independently of the relative positions of the
speaker and auditors. Each time the auditor perceives an interesting
topic during the speech, he immediately selects the topic simply by
pressing a reserved key on the auditor's device. Universal times at which
topics are selected by the auditor are stored in the auditor device.