The utility of being able to search tracks based on actual words would be very valuable -- although audio quality, annunciation and unlearned speech patterns might present roadblocks in real-world applications.
More importantly, a while back, I read an enlightening post by someone on the Avid forum who organized his "behind the scenes" reality footage by verbally transcribing the names of certain key individuals onto a wav file, using Dragon to convert his verbal transcription into text, importing the wave file onto a blank audio track added to the footage he originally transcribed from -- and then importing the text file into ScriptSync. He was then able to immediately go to specific people or moments in the footage that would have, otherwise, been almost impossible to find in a reasonable amount of time.
[I know that sounds confusing so if you want to read the original post -- go here: http://tinyurl.com/yh2pu3c ]
Anyway, it is a very good idea for large projects that require an overlay of organization that, for what ever reason, does not exist.
Although I have streamlined his workflow quite a bit from what he described in his original post -- this type of functionality would be incredibly useful as a fully-integrated feature in Media Composer.
Just my $0.02
http://community.avid.com/forums/p/71980/402603.aspx
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "kip.watters" <kwatters@...> wrote:
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> My name is Kip Watters – I am the Director or Product Management for Media at Nexidia. Nexidia is the company whose technology powers ScriptSync in Avid's Media Composer and other Avid products. ScriptSync is just one way to utilize Nexidia's "phonetic search" capability – time-aligning selections of a script with one or more scenes in a movie production.
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> I am interested in hearing your thoughts on other ways that search of spoken word content in audio and video would benefit the professional video editing community.
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> For example, would having access to a search box through Avid client applications capable of quickly finding all occurrences of a word or phrase (anything you typed in) within a local or network-based content archive – similar to a Google search for untranscribed audio and video – be valuable? Search results would jump you directly to each place in the audio where the search term was spoken.
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> This search would not rely on manual tagging, descriptions, captions, etc. of content, and is independent of any existing metadata (title, tags, descriptions, character names, etc.) that may already be searchable. In fact, spoken-word and metadata-based search could be combined to ensure that all information, including what the actors say, is searched together.
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> Would an audio search be more useful in a specific application that you use, and if so, which applications?
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> Do you have examples of jobs you work on in which fast, on-demand access to target content via keyword/phrase search would make it easier or possible to do things that you cannot do today?
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> Love to have your ideas and other thoughts on how spoken word search could be applied in the Video Editing and Asset Management areas.
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> A couple of additional notes on Nexidia Search capability:
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> 1) Rather than producing a text transcript, Nexidia's indexing process (which produces a small index file for each media file) is several hundred times faster than speech-to-text (a 1 hour video becomes searchable in a few seconds).
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> 2) Phonetic search, unlike speech to text, does not require every word to be in the "dictionary" of possible terms for it to be found. This is especially important when searching regional or topical content with unique proper name and colloquialisms. Nexidia is also more tolerant of background noise and does not require a perfect recording to be useful.
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