Re: High-lighting of caption files

Thanks for this link, John!

Note that TED is doing the same effect, e.g.
http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_wudunn_our_century_s_greatest_injustice.htmland
click on "Open Interactive Transcript" at the top right. They do it on
a
sentence basis rather than words, but it's essentially the same approach.

Also note that in both examples you can click both on the video to jump
elsewhere and the text will jump, too, and you can click on the text to make
the video jump.

Cheers,
Silvia.


On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:20 AM, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi Silvia, Group,
>
> As an Action Item from yesterday's call, I promised to provide the
> following link as an example of "highlighting" text transcripts in
> association with a video (note, I argue that the need to do this for
> <audio> only content does exist - specifically "PodCasts" - but we'll
> return to that at another point). 3PlayMedia are calling this an
> "interactive transcript".
>
> At any rate, the example can be found at: http://www.3playmedia.com/ -
> From the home page there is a button to "Click To See it in Action"
> (Janina look for "See how interactive transcripts work") [Note to self -
> have a discussion with the 3PlayMedia guys about some of their site
> navigation issues...)
>
> Please note that 3PlayMedia are actively marketing this as a solution to
> educational institutions and US governmental groups as a means to improve
> accessibility of videos to groups other than the deaf.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> JF
>
>