The growing adoption of broadband combined with a dramatic push by content providers to promote online video has helped to pave the way for mainstream audiences to embrace online video viewing. Fifty-seven percent of online adults have used the internet to watch or download video, and 19% do so on a typical day. Three-quarters of broadband users (74%) who enjoy high-speed connections at both home and work watch or download video online.
Several Sources to Search Online Video (the free content). Most of these tools offer a metasearch of numerous video databases and/or have content "deals" with providers.
Nexidia (search every word spoken) demo from a tv station in Atlanta and the free service (they also offer a fee-based database) from TVEyes are also worthy of your attention.
TVEyes uses closed captioning or speech-to-text technology while Nexidia takes a different approach and breaks down the spoken/recorded word into phonetic sounds (phonemes) and then converts into text. Nexidia is very fast and from what we've seen, more accurate in terms of transcription vs. other services especially with specialized vocabulary/jargon comes ino play. We don't think the time is far away that a student will record a lecture, connect (cable/Bluetooth) the recording device into their computer and within a matter of minutes be able to keyword search the entire lecture or presentation.
Update 3: Oops, we forgot MetaVid from The University of California at Santa Cruz. Searchable access to video from the U.S. Congress. Free.
Metavid is a project which seeks to capture, stream, archive and facilitate real-time collective [re]mediation of legislative proceedings. Metavid makes use of entirely free and open source software and video codecs to make both the footage and the architecture of the site available, accessible and recontextualizable.
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