Information processing apparatus capable of deleting pause fillers from moving image, information processing system, method of controlling information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing system, and storage medium

An information processing system including:

• an image capturing apparatus that captures a moving image including sound information;
• an external apparatus in communication with a display apparatus including a display;
• and
• an information processing apparatus that edits the captured moving image
• the information processing apparatus comprising at least one memory storing instructions;
• and at least one processor that, upon execution of the stored instructions, is caused to:
• acquire a moving image including sound information;
• analyze the sound information of the acquired moving image to identify a presence of an utterance by a speaker in the acquired moving image;
• determine, based on a result of the analysis of the sound information and a predefined set of pause filler information, that the utterance present in the moving image includes a meaningless utterance representing a pause filler sound that is uttered by the speaker;
• acquire a section of the moving image having the sound information that corresponds to the determined meaningless utterance;
• detect the speaker within the moving image in the section including the meaningless utterance;
• and
• execute editing that removes sound information from the moving image corresponding to at least the determined meaningless utterance from the moving image with respect to the section including the meaningless utterance, according to a result of the detection;
• and
• instruct, after the moving image has been edited the external apparatus to display the edited moving image on the display of the display apparatus according to the display instruction.

A method of controlling an information processing apparatus, comprising:

• acquiring a moving image including sound information;
• analyzing sound information of the acquired moving image to identify a presence of an utterance by a speaker in the acquired moving image;
• determining, based on a result of the analysis of the sound information and a predefined set of pause filler information, that the utterance present in the moving image is a meaningless utterance representing a pause filler that is uttered by the speaker;
• acquiring a section of the moving image having the sound information that corresponds to the determined meaningless utterance;
• detecting the speaker within the moving image in the section including the determined meaningless utterance;
• and
• executing editing that removes sound information from the moving image corresponding to at least the determined meaningless utterance from the moving image with respect to the section including the meaningless utterance, according to a result of the detection.

A method of controlling an information processing system including an image capturing apparatus that captures a moving image including sound information, an information processing apparatus that edits the captured moving image, and an external apparatus in communication with a display apparatus including a display, comprising:

• in the information processing apparatus,
• analyzing sound information of the acquired moving image to identify a presence of an utterance by a speaker in the acquired moving image;
• determining, based on a result of the analysis of the sound information and a predefined set of pause filler information, that the utterance present in the moving image is a meaningless utterance representing a pause filler that is uttered by the speaker;
• acquiring a section of the moving image having the sound information that corresponds to the determined meaningless utterance;
• detecting the speaker within the moving image in the section including the determined meaningless utterance;
• and
• executing editing that removes sound information from the moving image corresponding to at least the determined meaningless utterance from the moving image with respect to the section including the meaningless utterance, according to a result of the detection;
• and
• instructing, after the moving image has been edited, the external apparatus to display the edited moving image, and
• in the display apparatus, displaying, on the display, the edited moving image according to the instruction.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a method of controlling an information processing apparatus,

• wherein the method comprises:
• acquiring a moving image including sound information;
• analyzing sound information of the acquired moving image to identify a presence of an utterance by a speaker in the acquired moving image;
• determining, based on a result of the analysis of the sound information and a predefined set of pause filler information, that the utterance present in the moving image is a meaningless utterance representing a pause filler that is uttered by the speaker;
• acquiring a section of the moving image having the sound information that corresponds to the determined meaningless utterance;
• detecting the speaker within the moving image in the section including the determined meaningless utterance;
• and
• executing editing that removes sound information from the moving image corresponding to at least the determined meaningless utterance from the moving image with respect to the section including the meaningless utterance, according to a result of the detection.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a method of controlling an information processing system including an image capturing apparatus that captures a moving image including sound information, an information processing apparatus that edits the captured moving image, and an external apparatus in communication with a display apparatus including a display,

• wherein the method comprises:
• in the information processing apparatus,
• analyzing sound information of the acquired moving image to identify a presence of an utterance by a speaker in the acquired moving image;
• determining, based on a result of the analysis of the sound information and a predefined set of pause filler information, that the utterance present in the moving image is a meaningless utterance representing a pause filler that is uttered by the speaker;
• acquiring a section of the moving image having the sound information that corresponds to the determined meaningless utterance;
• detecting the speaker within the moving image in the section including the determined meaningless utterance;
• and
• executing editing that removes sound information from the moving image corresponding to at least the determined meaningless utterance from the moving image with respect to the section including the meaningless utterance, according to a result of the detection;
• and
• instructing, after the moving image has been edited, the external apparatus to display the edited moving image, and
• in the display apparatus, displaying, on the display, the edited moving image according to the instruction.