Msnbc.com Chief Says Video Transcripts Make Editing Scalable with "Minimum Human Intervention"

REDMOND, WA — The transcription of the voice track of video has proven to be a big value by making video more searchable. Now, it is making video editing more effective and scalable, explains Charles Tillinghast, President and Publisher of msnbc.com. A number of technologies are being used by msnbc.com to automatically transcribe and organize raw video and create associated transcripts as part of the production flow. Charlie says that these emerging, automated systems can create edited videos with "minimum human intervention."Msnbc.com has been working closely with technology provider Nexidia to enable this process.We caught up with Charlie last month at the Redmond headquarters of msnbc.comAndy Plesser, Managing EditorVideo Transcript Charles Tillinghast: Well the voice to text index is something that we debuted during the presidential debates, where we were able to take the transcripts of the debates, abstract the key words, and then allow people to click on those key words and go straight to the portion of the video. We did it again for the inauguration. That progress on that has continued and so we’re now getting to the point where we'll be able to offer that product on almost any video we run. In addition, it provides a big productivity boost for us because we are gradually able to not have to have humans cut each clip, you know, mark the in and mark the out for a particular clip. Instead, we can use this indexing technology to do the automatic cutting and so we can process a vastly greater amount of video without any increase in head count. Jeff Brooks: So, the key to video now, it's really come down to the metatag and the keying and the keywords, that's really where this, the whole shift seems to have come for everybody making money right now?Charles Tillinghast: Yeah, that's really the key to being able to process the video and search for it and to put it...to be able to put it where you want it on the site. But the big problem with metadata has be...

Channel: Beet.TV Video Length: 0s Date Found: Mon, Aug 24 2009 11:34 PM Category: News Date Produced: Mon, Aug 24 2009 10:38 PM View Count: 0