Stunning "MIT Lecture Browser" indexes recordings using speech to text conversion

[Updated 14/1/2008]

Thanks to Carolyn Kotlas and INFOBITS for highlighting the stunning MIT Lecture Browser. Use it to search a large body of MIT OpenCourseWare video assets, scroll through a machine-generated - and reasonably accurate - transcript of the audio to the asset (a lecture, say), and then navigate accurately to the point in the lecture that interests you. For reasons I cannot yet fathom, I could not get the video to play in my browser, but even without this I was gripped by the Lecture Browser's underlying utility, even without being able to play the video properly, [14/1/2008] though following the advice in the comment below I have now solved the problem.

For more on the browser, follow these links:

• Lecture Browser "About" page;

• November 26 2007 MIT Technology Review article by Kate Greene.

Comments

[soobrosa]

Who on earth use RealVideo anymore?

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Quite of few providers of relevant learning resources.... Seb

[Mark van Harmelen]

After meeting the same playback problem and nosing around a bit, I made playback work in Firefox (on Windows XP SP2) by uninstalling Real Player and installing Real Alternative. I used the full version rather than the "Lite" version at http://www.codecguide.com/download_real.htm

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Thanks Mark. That worked for me too. Seb.

[Frances Bell]

Thanks for this link Seb. I will be using this directly and indirectly in my classroom resources this semester. When I was browsing it, I thought how useful it would to enable collaborative correction of the transcripts
but it seems (from the linked article above) that those bright people at MIT are already on the case.