This paper discusses the application of speech alignment, image processing, and language understanding technologies to build efficient interfaces into large digital oral history archives, as exemplified by a thousand hour HistoryMakers corpus. Browsing, querying, and navigation features are discussed. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Multimedia Information Systems. H.3.1, H.3.7 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Content Analysis and Indexing, Digital Libraries. General Terms: Design, Human Factors.
Michael G. Christel, Julieanna Richardson, Howard