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Nov 24 2009   2:52PM GMT

Google’s YouTube automated captioning: Making video searchable



Posted by: Tom Nolle
Google, content delivery networks, YouTube, speech recognition, video content

Google has launched an automated captioning system for some of its partner channels, based on speech recognition algorithms. The move is aimed at making content more searchable and supporting access for the hearing-impaired, but it also could be the start of a system to textually index a lot of content to create the metadata need to categorize and cross-link complex video libraries.

Enterprises have wanted video indexing for some time and MPEG4 provides a metadata standard to store the information but there’s still the question of how it could be collected. Google may now have the answer, and if so there could be a new enterprise service coming out of the technology since the enterprise users list captioning and cross-linking as a major requirement for their own content and private content delivery networks (CDNs).

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Sep 10 2009   5:03PM GMT

Comcast’s TV Everywhere: Credibility with advertisers



Posted by: Tom Nolle
cable, video content, Online advertising, Comcast

Comcast says that it’s no more than 60 days from rolling out TV Everywhere throughout its service area. The project is in trial now and has already signed up 24 networks to supply content. We believe this is a critically important model for streaming video because it has credibility with advertisers, and these guys are the critical ingredient in any video strategy.

We still believe that TV Everywhere would benefit from some non-aligned authentication source, or from a system of federation run by the networks that contribute the content. Still, even in its current form, it offers the first chance at dodging the problem with ad sponsorship in online video—the “too-few-eyeballs-for-interest” problem. This makes streaming content an incremental viewing source to traditional TV.

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