Friday, July 07, 2006

Comments within video clips

ITP Research has produced Video Comments, a WordPress Plugin. It's the first stage towards making video searchable. True, it's not automatic. It requires the efforts of users to "tag" video at certain timecodes. However, it's done in a blog interface, which promotes natural language descriptions of the video.

Whether this "brute force" method of identifying segments within videos will be more useful than automated audio track translation will remain to be seen. It's just nice to see both methods surfacing.

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