--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "timmangini" <tim_mangini@...> wrote:
>
> We could use this technology in a myriad of ways. I have a producer who has asked for just the specific feature you mention below. He works on docs over the course of 5-6 years and frequently wants to find places where a specific character spoke certain words. It is difficult to impossible to find those clips now in the Avid bin structure.
>
> Another huge help for us would be in finding phonetically similar sounds to repair problems in our sound editing. For instance, a character swallows the end of an important bite and you don't here the "ing" in "grounding". It would be very helpful in the Avid or in Protools to be able to search for that character making that sound. Ideally, we'd have the ability to narrow or broaden the search depending on what we were looking for.
>
> Of course it would also be great for our field producers to be able to create "insta-scripts" when they are on location. To have an app that would create a quick rough transcript would help them prepare for the next interview better.
>
> Glad to explore further off-list.
>
> Tim Mangini
> Director of Broadcast
> FRONTLINE
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Michael Brockington <brocking@> wrote:
> >
> > I find I'm using ScriptSync whenever I can these days. I would love to
> > see an easy way to use it with a sequence. The perfect situation would
> > be to have it autoassemble a script based on the cut sequence, and then
> > be able to jump into the sequence from that script the way you can dive
> > into source footage from the sunk script.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --Michael Brockington
> >
> > kip.watters wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Would an audio search be more useful in a specific application that
> > > you use, and if so, which applications?
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > Love to have your ideas and other thoughts on how spoken word search
> > > could be applied in the Video Editing and Asset Management areas.
> > >
> > > A couple of additional notes on Nexidia Search capability:
> > >
> > > 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).
> > >
> > > 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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