[LINK] searchable video

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

> From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas at email.unc.edu>
> Date:   Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:44:32 -0500
> Subject:   TL Infobits -- December 2007 
 
<http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitdec07.php>

 SEARCHABLE VIDEO LECTURES

This fall researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
released the MIT Lecture Browser, a web interface to video recordings
of lectures and seminars that have been indexed using automatic speech
recognition technology.

Users can search on terms or phrases and then play the video at the
point(s) in the recording where their search terms appear.

While the transcript's accuracy can be affected by speakers' verbal
pauses or by nonnative English speakers' accents, the texts can be very
close to the audio originals. The transcripts' accuracy is sufficient
for searches .. You can search and try out the Lecture Browser at:

<http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/>

See also: "Searching Video Lectures: A Tool from MIT Finds Keywords So 
That Students Can Efficiently Review Lectures" By Kate Greene TECHNOLOGY
REVIEW, Nov 26, 2007 http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19747/page1/
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Cheers people
Stephen Loosley
Victoria Australia