Adjustment of temporal acoustical characteristics

A system for adjustment of temporal acoustical characteristics of words in an item structure, the system comprising:

• an audible item structure generator to receive the item structure comprising at least a first item, the first item to represent a first set of one or more words, the audible item structure generator comprising:
• a keyword extractor the keyword extractor to extract one or more keywords from the first set to generate a first keyword item, the keyword extractor to select the one or more keywords to distinguish the keyword item from other items;
• and
• an abbreviations generator to receive an indication of different speeds for navigation to abbreviate the first keyword item to generate a condensed item structure for one or more of the different speeds by generating, for each speed, a first alternative representation for the first keyword item to create a first abbreviated item based upon the speed;
• and
• an audible user interface controller coupled with the audible item structure generator to provide the indication of the different speeds with which the audible user interface controller may sound the first abbreviated item via a text-to-speech generator.

A computer program product for adjustment of temporal acoustical characteristics of words in an item structure, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer usable medium having a computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising:
• computer usable program code configured to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• receiving the item structure, the item structure comprising items, wherein each item represents at least one word;
• generating a non-redundant item structure having keyword items based upon the item structure by extracting, from each item, at least one keyword to create keyword items;
• determining alternative representations for each keyword item to create a condensed item structure of abbreviated items, the alternative representations each comprising at least one stressed syllable to represent words within each of the keyword items;
• and
• storing the condensed item structure.