Posted by Richard Crowley on 01/04/06 04:29

"nobody special" wrote ...
> While most people talk about captioning being for the benefit of the
> deaf community, there is another reason driving this as well. Once
> your
> videos all have a CC track, they become keyword-searchable to large
> video clip databases. This is already being done for news networks
> and
> specialty programming services on a smaller scale, but it will only
> expand. Some day not too far off, a person at their home PC will
> google 'Sermons, First Timothy, video', and be able to find video of
> your pastor's speaking on that scripture, as well as many others. He
> would even be able to break it down by denomination and other
> variables. That sermon might someday, potentially be watched
> worldwide,
> in far-flung places, by people you'll never meet.

INDEED! This is already possible at http://video.google.com/
They are offering *free* hosting and word-search from the
Google search-engine (assuming you submit the transcript
along with the video).
https://upload.video.google.com/video_transcripts.html

Transcription vendors who support Google Video...
https://upload.video.google.com/video_transcriptions.html
Some also likely do traditional CC.

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