CSE 498
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TechSmith
Collaborative Video Editing
Popular video sites such as YouTube and Google have recently
expanded their audiences by adding the feature of closed
captioning to their videos. However, speech recognition
technologies are far from perfect and often create imperfect
transcriptions of the video.
With the guidance of TechSmith, we have developed a solution
to these issues by creating a website where users can upload
their videos to be automatically captioned, find other captioned
videos, and correct any incorrect captions. This allows for an
entire community to contribute to the transcription of videos.
Using our website, you could search for captioned videos you
are interested in. After a user logs in, they are then able to
upload videos for automatic captioning and submit edited
captions for videos of other users as well as their own.
If a user finds an error in the caption, they can make their
desired correction in “Edit Mode” to access the captions and
make the appropriate changes. These edits will officially be
made to the video upon the approval of the video’s owner.
Users can search for what was said in the video as well as tags
of uploaded videos. Still shots from the videos along with a
brief description are displayed as results of the search.
This software automatically generates captions by using the
Windows Speech Recognition engine (v. 5.1) on Windows
Server 2003. Captioned videos are viewed with Adobe Flash
Player while video information is stored in a MySQL database.
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Chris Bowron
Okemos, Michigan
Thomas Davison
Falmouth, Michigan
Dean Craven
Okemos, Michigan
John Carlson
Oakland, California
Scott Schmerer
Okemos, Michigan
Stephanie Ortiz
Mesquite, Texas
Robert Victoria
Troy, Michigan