Conclusion | Automatic Audio Replacement of Objectionable Content for Sri Lankan Locale
When considering Sri Lanka, the government had to temporarily ban a few social media platforms several times from 2018 to 2019 to control the violence between the communities which was accelerating via hate speech and racist fake news spreading through social media. Yet, there is no proper mechanism to specifically filter and replace objectionable content in audio for Sri Lankan locale. In addressing this issue, we proposed a system for Sri Lankan locale, which automatically detects and replaces objectionable content in audio. In this proposed system, to selectively filter out the potentially objectionable audio content, the input audio is first preprocessed and converted into text format. The presence of racist, cursing, and sexist objectionable content are detected along with their corresponding locations and timestamps through the filtering mechanism. Afterwards, the detected objectionable content is seamlessly replaced with predetermined audio input. The model was tested against a