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Systems and methods for transcribing videos using speaker identification

  • US 10,304,458 B1
  • Filed: 03/06/2015
  • Issued: 05/28/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for transcribing video, comprising:

  • receiving, by a computer-based system from a network, a video feed having video data, audio data, and closed-captioning data, the closed-captioning data indicative of speech defined by the audio data;

    identifying a speech segment within the closed-captioning data;

    automatically defining, by the computer-based system, a transcript of the speech based on the closed-captioning data in the video feed received from the network;

    automatically analyzing, by the computer-based system, the video data, audio data, and closed-captioning data by the computer-based system;

    automatically identifying, by the computer-based system, a speaker for the speech segment within the transcript based on the analyzing;

    automatically marking, by the computer-based system, the speech segment in the transcript with an identifier of the speaker thereby attributing the speech segment to the speaker;

    summarizing the transcript, wherein the summarizing comprises determining an overall percentage of speech attributable to the speaker for the closed-captioning data and selecting portions of the transcript for removal based on the determined overall percentage; and

    storing the transcript in memory.

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