Synchronizing audio and text of multimedia segments
AssigneeArabesque Communications, Inc.
InventorBradley James Witteman
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for synchronizing segments in a signal stream having an audio component and a text component. In one aspect, a search is made in the text component for a marker text string consisting of at least one word, character or phrase; an audio pattern representative of the marker text string is generated; the audio pattern is located in the audio component; and, the audio and text components are aligned temporally. In another aspect, cue points delineating a start and/or end of a multimedia segment are found. In another aspect, a user can search for a multimedia segment and either read the text feed or listen to the audio feed.
Claims1
A method for synchronizing a multimedia segment of a signal stream, the signal stream having an audio component and a closed caption text component, the method comprising:
- locating in the text component a marker text string, the marker text string being one of a set of text strings, each text string in the set made up of at least one word, phrase, or character;
- generating an audio pattern representative of the located marker text string;
- locating the audio pattern in the audio component;
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- temporally aligning the closed caption text component with the audio pattern in the audio component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.