Towards More Searchable Video
The roll-out of high-speed internet access has done wonders for online video – making download speeds fast enough for us to enjoy the lastest boy band homage on YouTube.
Now that we can view video, the next trick is to make it easier to find. Unlike text, videos by and large aren’t searchable for their content, it’s only by adding titles and tags that we can readily find what we’re looking for.
Truly searchable video would be big news.
Startup SpeakerText goes someway towards this goal by linking videos with their transcripts (play the video above to get a feel for how it works). If, for example, you want to quote something from a video, you can simply highlight and copy the text in the transcript and automatically create a link from wherever you paste that text to the exact point in the video.
I’m not sure if it’s there quite yet (let me know in the comments if I’ve got it wrong) but if the transcript was then made searchable you could conceivably search for a quote via a search engine, click the link and be taken directly to the appropriate segment of the video.
What do you think?
Site: www.speakertext.com Via: Niemanlab.org
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