Great idea - I'd find it very useful to have all subtitles available as RSS feeds - could do a lot with that. Would there be copyright issues though?
Dave Miller On 10/01/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi I was just watching Click (BBC News 24 et al) and they were showing a 'Microsoft future' system that downloaded video (from video podcasts, they said) and ran a voice recognition process on the audio which converted the output to text. The point of this was to allow video content to be searched by entering keywords into a Media Center screen, so you could have automatic 'search folders' that listed new content that contained the search keywords. And this got me wondering why they had gone to the trouble. Almost all output on the BBC in the UK, and most US network programming provides subtitles. In the UK they are delivered by teletext (Ceefax or Teletext) on page 888, or via a special feed in the DVB-T, DVB-CS and DVB-S system. In the US they used 'closed captions' (CC) or via a digital stream in the ATSC system. Some BBC programs provide their scripts online, but I was wondering if it would be possible to provide ALL the subtitles used by the BBC (and other broadcasters) over the course of the day as RSS feeds? Long, long ago I had a BBC Micro program that could record the transmitted subtitles, so it's not difficult to do. This would make it very simple to find and watch for keywords used in programs. When - eventually - the iPlayer launches there could be links to the actual program content too! Brian Butterworth www.ukfree.tv PS: I accidentally made a Google gadget... http://www.google.com/ig/add?synd=open&source=ggyp&moduleurl=http://www.ukfree.tv/txlist_gadget.xml or Google desktop version, click add and enter http://www.ukfree.tv/txlist_gadget.xml and click 'search gadgets'
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