Comments on: SpeakerText wants to free all your words from the prison of your videos http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/speakertext-wants-to-free-all-your-words-from-the-prison-of-your-videos/ A collaborative effort to figure out the future of journalism. A project of Harvard University. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:39:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SpeakerText: Linkable Video Transcripts | IDDICTIVE.COM | Innovative Business Ideas http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/speakertext-wants-to-free-all-your-words-from-the-prison-of-your-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-70593 SpeakerText: Linkable Video Transcripts | IDDICTIVE.COM | Innovative Business Ideas Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:19:33 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=11941#comment-70593 [...] Site: www.speakertext.com Via: Niemanlab.org [...] [...] Site: http://www.speakertext.com Via: Niemanlab.org [...]

]]> By: Dave Chase http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/speakertext-wants-to-free-all-your-words-from-the-prison-of-your-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-70018 Dave Chase Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:51:41 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=11941#comment-70018 [Disclosure: My consulting firm has worked with the company I am about to mention.] Intel-backed Delve Networks has provided a similar technology for some time. The lack of scannability of audio (whether in a podcast or video) is one of the core reasons www.delvenetworks.com was founded 4 years ago. You can see the Delve implementation at http://www.delvenetworks.com/product/search-inside/ using the Obama inaugural as an example. The "Search inside" feature is the first example of several product Semantic Video Technology* features that will roll out. Using the same insight that allows for Search Inside also enables auto-tagging as well as the creation of a video site map that gets pushed to the search engines for SEO purposes. This technology has been in the market for awhile and has everyone from the Stars & Stripes and local papers to the NFL, ESPN, and many others using it. SpeakerText looks like a nice add-on to YouTube especially if you have resources to do transcriptions. Someone using Delve uses it as an end-to-end video platform (e.g., handles UGC video, analytics, content management, syndication, ad integration, etc.) and all of this is automated (no transcription required). Given my media background one of the reasons they hired my firm was to help them understand how best to serve the media market. Feel free to contact me if you'd like to delve into what they do. [dave -at- sunvalleyonline {dot} com] * Semantic Video Technology is what enables the scenario by combining voice recognition with semantic analysis derived from crawling 100's of millions of web pages. This is how in the demo you can search on "economy" and it will be smart enough to know that that term relates to terms like "jobs", "wealth", "markets", etc. and have it show up on the heat map. [Disclosure: My consulting firm has worked with the company I am about to mention.]
Intel-backed Delve Networks has provided a similar technology for some time. The lack of scannability of audio (whether in a podcast or video) is one of the core reasons http://www.delvenetworks.com was founded 4 years ago. You can see the Delve implementation at http://www.delvenetworks.com/product/search-inside/ using the Obama inaugural as an example. The “Search inside” feature is the first example of several product Semantic Video Technology* features that will roll out. Using the same insight that allows for Search Inside also enables auto-tagging as well as the creation of a video site map that gets pushed to the search engines for SEO purposes.

This technology has been in the market for awhile and has everyone from the Stars & Stripes and local papers to the NFL, ESPN, and many others using it. SpeakerText looks like a nice add-on to YouTube especially if you have resources to do transcriptions. Someone using Delve uses it as an end-to-end video platform (e.g., handles UGC video, analytics, content management, syndication, ad integration, etc.) and all of this is automated (no transcription required).

Given my media background one of the reasons they hired my firm was to help them understand how best to serve the media market. Feel free to contact me if you’d like to delve into what they do. [dave -at- sunvalleyonline {dot} com]

* Semantic Video Technology is what enables the scenario by combining voice recognition with semantic analysis derived from crawling 100′s of millions of web pages. This is how in the demo you can search on “economy” and it will be smart enough to know that that term relates to terms like “jobs”, “wealth”, “markets”, etc. and have it show up on the heat map.

]]> By: ne-web Design Newcastle http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/speakertext-wants-to-free-all-your-words-from-the-prison-of-your-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-69975 ne-web Design Newcastle Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:21:47 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=11941#comment-69975 I've not heard of this before. This could become pretty useful for me with some projects that I have planned. Thanks for the heads up! I’ve not heard of this before. This could become pretty useful for me with some projects that I have planned. Thanks for the heads up!

]]> By: Adam Levy http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/speakertext-wants-to-free-all-your-words-from-the-prison-of-your-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-69870 Adam Levy Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:35:50 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=11941#comment-69870 Well, this looks fairly terrific. It would certainly make my job a lot easier. Well, this looks fairly terrific. It would certainly make my job a lot easier.

]]> By: George Chriss http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/speakertext-wants-to-free-all-your-words-from-the-prison-of-your-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-69685 George Chriss Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:51:20 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=11941#comment-69685 Thanks for the informative post! I would be remiss not to highlight OpenMeetings.org, a project I started this summer that has a fair degree of overlap with SpeakerText. A video introduction: http://bit.ly/7FKRgl Thanks for the informative post!

I would be remiss not to highlight OpenMeetings.org, a project I started this summer that has a fair degree of overlap with SpeakerText. A video introduction: http://bit.ly/7FKRgl

]]> By: Matt Mireles http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/speakertext-wants-to-free-all-your-words-from-the-prison-of-your-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-69669 Matt Mireles Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:00:35 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=11941#comment-69669 Also, I think you missed an important point: Not only will SpeakerText give you the URL to a specific moment inside a video, if you highlight text in the transcript and hit the "Quote" button (right-click and select "Copy QuoteLink"), it'll copy a QuoteLink to your clipboard. Paste it into a bog and it looks like this: <a href='http://speakertext.com/play.php?stid=30yp&ss=61' rel="nofollow">And we’ve been, for the most part, impressed by how well the system works. That’ll come as a surprise to all of you who fret over the many things that ought to work better.</a> When you click through, the video will start at the time where the quote was said. Other people can copy and paste this into their blogs, driving both direct viral traffic to your video and lathering it in SEO. -Matt Also, I think you missed an important point: Not only will SpeakerText give you the URL to a specific moment inside a video, if you highlight text in the transcript and hit the “Quote” button (right-click and select “Copy QuoteLink”), it’ll copy a QuoteLink to your clipboard. Paste it into a bog and it looks like this:

And we’ve been, for the most part, impressed by how well the system works. That’ll come as a surprise to all of you who fret over the many things that ought to work better.

When you click through, the video will start at the time where the quote was said. Other people can copy and paste this into their blogs, driving both direct viral traffic to your video and lathering it in SEO.

-Matt

]]> By: Matt Mireles http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/speakertext-wants-to-free-all-your-words-from-the-prison-of-your-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-69667 Matt Mireles Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:35:54 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=11941#comment-69667 Thanks Josh. Just to re-iterate, we built this system with $4,000. There is still MUCH room for improvement, both on the usability side and deeper technology side of things. What we've done now is just the beginning of a much larger, more sophisticated project that will hopefully address and answer all the weaknesses and challenges you pointed out. Readers should feel free to ping me with questions here in the comments or via: matt@speakertext.com/347.263.7929. Cheers! -Matt Mireles Founder & CEO, SpeakerText -Matt Thanks Josh.

Just to re-iterate, we built this system with $4,000. There is still MUCH room for improvement, both on the usability side and deeper technology side of things. What we’ve done now is just the beginning of a much larger, more sophisticated project that will hopefully address and answer all the weaknesses and challenges you pointed out.

Readers should feel free to ping me with questions here in the comments or via: matt@speakertext.com/347.263.7929.

Cheers!
-Matt Mireles
Founder & CEO, SpeakerText

-Matt

]]> By: SpeakerText: Find, Read And Share Web Video Transcripts - PSFK http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/speakertext-wants-to-free-all-your-words-from-the-prison-of-your-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-69666 SpeakerText: Find, Read And Share Web Video Transcripts - PSFK Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:34:25 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=11941#comment-69666 [...] [via Neiman Journalism Lab] [...] [...] [via Neiman Journalism Lab] [...]

]]> By: mostmodenrist http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/speakertext-wants-to-free-all-your-words-from-the-prison-of-your-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-69656 mostmodenrist Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:50:02 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=11941#comment-69656 I can't believe it doesn't transcribe text from the video. I thought that's what I was clicking for. This is lousy technology. HOw are you going to say "Text is easily commoditized"? Your technology can't even hear the words and write them down, and you're going to call text commoditized? Here's what will happen when somebody with skills learns the robots how to hear our words, in order for to transcribe that speech into text, at which point somebody like yourself might then declare text's commoditization, and be wrong again. Hear'll what happens: You will have to learn to read new languages. A textual revolution will unite all the verbal languages. Prescribe the revolution! I can’t believe it doesn’t transcribe text from the video. I thought that’s what I was clicking for. This is lousy technology. HOw are you going to say “Text is easily commoditized”? Your technology can’t even hear the words and write them down, and you’re going to call text commoditized?

Here’s what will happen when somebody with skills learns the robots how to hear our words, in order for to transcribe that speech into text, at which point somebody like yourself might then declare text’s commoditization, and be wrong again. Hear’ll what happens: You will have to learn to read new languages.

A textual revolution will unite all the verbal languages. Prescribe the revolution!

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