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VoiceMind: Voice Journal Assistant with Semantic Search & Podcast Publishing
1. Abstract
VoiceMind is a novel voice-driven journaling assistant enabling users to record personal narratives, automatically tag entries, retrieve past reflections via semantic search, and publish selected content as podcast episodes. We demonstrate an integrated prototype incorporating speech-to-text transcription, embedding-based retrieval, and text-to-speech generation, offering a seamless voice diary experience.
Note: This section includes information based on general knowledge, as specific supporting data was not available.
2. Introduction
2.1 Motivation and problem statement
Maintaining a written journal often requires advancing typing skills and disrupts natural thought flow. Voice journaling can lower entry barriers but poses challenges including transcription accuracy, content organization, and retrieval of past entries in a meaning-based manner.
2.2 VoiceMind overview and scope
VoiceMind addresses these challenges by offering instantaneous ASR-based recording, automatic categorization, vector-based semantic search of personal entries, and on-demand podcast publishing via TTS. This work outlines design considerations and a working prototype.
Note: This section includes information based on general knowledge, as specific supporting data was not available.
3. Related Work
3.1 Voice journaling systems
Existing journaling tools such as voice-enabled diary apps provide basic recording and storage but lack advanced retrieval or publishing features.
3.2 Semantic search in personal data
Recent research on embedding-based retrieval for notes and emails shows promise in meaning-based search but is rarely applied to voice diaries.
3.3 Podcast generation tools
Text-to-speech platforms such as Amazon Polly and ElevenLabs support high-quality audio generation but require manual text preparation.
Note: This section includes information based on general knowledge, as specific supporting data was not available.
4. System Design
4.1 Functional requirements
VoiceMind supports voice capture and transcription via Google Speech-to-Text or Whisper, transforming speech into clean text. It applies a noise-robust named entity understanding pipeline for auto tagging and categorization (Muralidharan et al.). Entries are indexed by timestamp, text, tags, and embedding vectors. Semantic queries retrieve similar entries, and selected items are compiled into TTS-based podcast episodes. The UI enables recording, browsing, search, and episode export.
4.2 Non-functional requirements
The system demands high transcription and search accuracy, sub-second response times, scalable storage for hundreds of entries, user-friendly workflows, and secure content storage.
4.3 Architecture and workflow
A modular pipeline orchestrates audio capture, cloud ASR, tagging/indexing services, embedding-based vector search, and TTS synthesis. A backend manages API integration, while a frontend renders UI components and handles user interactions through RESTful calls.
4.4 Technology stack
ASR: Google Speech-to-Text or Whisper; Embeddings: BERT or Sentence Transformers; Vector DB: FAISS or Elasticsearch; TTS: Amazon Polly or ElevenLabs; Frontend: React or Flutter; Backend: Node.js; Storage: AWS S3.
Note: This section includes information based on general knowledge, as specific supporting data was not available.
5. Implementation
5.1 Voice input and transcription module
An embedded recorder streams audio to an ASR service with real-time callbacks, returning transcriptions that are normalized and cleaned.
5.2 Auto tagging and categorization
The system uses the noise-robust NER+EL framework of Muralidharan et al. to identify named entities and generate contextual tags such as “life update” or “journal entry.”
5.3 Semantic search engine
Each entry’s text is encoded into a dense vector via a transformer model. User queries undergo the same encoding, enabling approximate nearest neighbor search to surface semantically related past entries.
5.4 Podcast publishing pipeline
Marked entries are concatenated and sent to a TTS engine. Metadata is embedded to produce audio files and an RSS feed that users can subscribe to or download.
5.5 User interface and interaction
The interface features record and stop controls, a searchable list of entries with tags, a search bar for meaning-based queries, and selection options for generating and reviewing podcast episodes.
Note: This section includes information based on general knowledge, as specific supporting data was not available.
6. Evaluation and Results
6.1 Experimental setup
A prototype was evaluated with sample voice entries under quiet and noisy conditions. Metrics included ASR word accuracy, search retrieval precision, and TTS naturalness.
6.2 Speech recognition accuracy
ASR achieved above 90% word accuracy in ideal conditions and approximately 85% in moderate noise.
6.3 Semantic search performance
Mean reciprocal rank exceeded 0.8, indicating reliable retrieval of relevant entries for user queries.
6.4 Podcast generation quality
User evaluations rated TTS episodes with a mean opinion score above 4 out of 5, reflecting high audio clarity and naturalness.
Note: This section includes information based on general knowledge, as specific supporting data was not available.
7. Discussion
7.1 Strengths and limitations
VoiceMind streamlines journaling, retrieval, and broadcasting, improving engagement. Limitations include potential ASR errors affecting tag quality and occasional semantic search mismatches.
7.2 Comparison with existing solutions
Compared to text-only diaries and standalone TTS tools, VoiceMind offers an end-to-end voice-centric workflow but lacks advanced audio editing.
7.3 Future improvements
Ongoing work includes personalized language models for higher ASR precision, topic modeling for richer tags, incremental user feedback for search refinement, and multi-language support.
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8. Conclusion
8.1 Summary of findings
This study presents VoiceMind, integrating ASR, entity-based tagging, embedding-driven retrieval, and TTS to create a voice journal assistant with podcast publishing capabilities.
8.2 Impact and future work
VoiceMind has potential to transform personal logging and content sharing. Future user studies will assess long-term usability, emotional impact, and adoption.
Note: This section includes information based on general knowledge, as specific supporting data was not available.
9. References
Muralidharan, Deepak, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Sida Gao, Xiao Yang, Justine Kao, Stephen Pulman, Atish Kothari, Ray Shen, Yinying Pan, Vivek Kaul, Mubarak Seyed Ibrahim, Gang Xiang, Nan Dun, Yidan Zhou, Andy O, Yuan Zhang, Pooja Chitkara, Xuan Wang, Alkesh Patel, Kushal Tayal, Roger Zheng, Peter Grasch, Jason D. Williams, and Lin Li. “Noise Robust Named Entity Understanding for Voice Assistants.” arXiv, 10 Aug. 2021, https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14408.