Transcript editor
AssigneeAvid Technology, Inc.
InventorsMichael E. Phillips, Glenn Lea
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Abstract
A transcript editor enables text-based editing of time-based media that includes spoken dialog. It involves an augmented transcript that includes timing metadata that associates words and phrases within the transcript with corresponding temporal locations within the time-based media where the text is spoken, and editing the augmented transcript without the need for playback of the time-based media. After editing, the augmented transcript is processed by a media editing system to automatically generate an edited version of the time-based media that only includes the segments of the time-based media that include the speech corresponding to the edited augmented transcript.
Claims20
In a computer-based system, a method of editing time-based media that includes recorded speech, the method comprising:
- receiving an augmented transcript of the recorded speech, wherein the augmented transcript includes timing information that, for each of a plurality of text words within the augmented transcript, associates that text word with a temporal location of recorded speech within the time-based media that corresponds to that text word;
- editing the augmented transcript, wherein the association of the timing information with each of the plurality of words within the transcript is preserved during the editing, and wherein editing the augmented transcript does not involve playback of the time-based media;
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- outputting the edited augmented transcript, wherein the edited augmented transcript, when received and processed by a time-based media editing system, is capable of causing the time based media editing system to generate an edited version of the time-based media, the edited version including only segments of the time-based media that include recorded speech that corresponds to text in the edited augmented transcript.
A computer program product, comprising:
- a computer-readable medium with Computer program instructions encoded thereon, wherein the computer program instructions, when processed by a computer, instruct the computer to perform a method for editing tune-based media that includes recorded speech, the method comprising:
- receiving an augmented transcript of the recorded speech, wherein the augmented transcript includes timing information that, for each of a plurality of text words within the augmented transcript, associates that text word with a temporal location of recorded speech within the time-based media that corresponds to that text word;
- editing the augmented transcript, wherein the association of the timing information with each of the plurality of words within the transcript is preserved during the editing, and wherein editing the augmented transcript does not involve playback of the time-based media;
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- outputting the edited augmented transcript, wherein the edited augmented transcript, when received and processed by a time-based media editing system, is capable of causing the time-based media editing system to generate an edited version of the time-based media, the edited version including only segments of the time-based media that include recorded speech that corresponds to text in the edited augmented transcript.
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