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From: John E Brandt
Date: Apr 28, 2011 11:45AM

This conversation took place a few weeks ago when Jared noted that:

"Even with closed captioning (or open captioning for which there is external
caption data), it isn't really accurate to say that they are searchable.
They could be made searchable if you built a custom system to do so. No
major search engine indexes and provides search capabilities for caption
data, with the exception of YouTube, which does so for captioned videos that
are within YouTube."

Today I learned of a relatively new service called 22frames which appears to
be building a database of captioned videos and has developed a method for
indexing the captions using "APIs and specialized web crawlers." I've been
checking it out today. I thought anyone else interested in this topic might
want to check it out also so we can compare notes.

http://22frames.com/

~j


John E. Brandt
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