Automated Video Captioning

• US 20110093263A1
• Filed: 10/19/2010
• Published: 04/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shahin M. Mowzoon
• Original Assignee: Shahin M. Mowzoon
• Inventors: Mowzoon, Shahin M.
• Application Number:
  US12/907,985
• Publication Number:
  US 20110093263A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

An automated closed captioning, captioning, or subtitle generation system that automatically generates the captioning text from the audio signal in a submitted online video and then allows the user to type in any corrections after which it adds the captioning text to the video allowing users to enable the captioning as needed. The user text review and correction step allows the text prediction model to accumulate additional corrected data with each use thereby improving the accuracy of the text generation over time and use of the system.

Claims

1. A computer implemented program, for generating text, wherein the program comprising the steps of:

receiving a file that includes at least an audio portion;

utilizing a speech recognition program to generate the text that is representative of the audio portion;

correcting the text; and

adding the text as a captioned layer to the file to produce a texted file, wherein the texted file includes the original file.

2. The program of claim 1, further comprising:

using a supervised machine learning technique to generate the text;

providing the automatically generated transcript text back to a user for corrections; and

updating the original text based on the user corrections.

3. The program of claim 1, wherein the text can be made available for translation to other languages.

4. The program of claim 1, wherein the text can be utilized by search engines to search through video content.