accessibility Articles

Nexidia Speech Recognition Technology To Assist With Enhanced Video Search

Nexidia, the market-leading provider of highly scalable and accurate rich media search and speech analytics software, announced today they have been chosen by Thought Equity Motion, the world leader in providing access to high quality film, video and music content, to augment Thought Equity's online ...

Youtube Videos Become More Accessible - Auto-Translate Captions In Multiple Languages

One strategy in making your videos more accessible to a wider audience may be to include captions and subtitles in multiple languages with your video.  Adding captions and subtitles to your videos not only make your video accessible to those with hearing impairments, but adding ...

TheFeedRoom Enterprise Video Platform 4.0 Released

On the heels of the recent relaunch of NYTimes.com video with Brightcove, The FeedRoom has announced its new FeedRoom 4.0 Enterprise video platform (EVP).  Below is the announcement from the FeedRoom. The FeedRoom, a leading provider of online video solutions for media companies, corporations and ...

YouTube Offers Captioning for Increased Accessibility and Indexing

YouTube has been working hard to expand the offerings at the site and make the videos more accessible to everyone. One of the features they just recently rolled out was the ability to include captions in videos. When uploading a video to YouTube now you ...

YouTube Speech-to-Text Recognition Functionality

YouTube, you know that Google-owned online video service, has decided that rich metadata may be the way to go. They believe that it could make a big splash and change the way that videos are indexed. The hot topic of the year so far has ...

Adobe Works To Make Video Search Indexing Easier

We all know how much work it is to transcribe audio or video to text. Adobe knows as well and is doing something about it. Adobe is set to release a new version of Flash that will feature speech-to-text technology for automatic transcription and it ...

HTML 5 Video Element - New Open Video Format Tags

HTML is of course the major language of the web. Over time the web grows into new areas not previously envisioned by W3C and the holders of the HTML protocol so from time to time they must bring out a newer, up-to-date, version of the ...

How to Create MRSS Feeds Tutorial - Syndicate Video With Media RSS (MRSS)

Syndicating your news with an RSS feed is easy. Syndicating your media and videos with MRSS (media RSS)? Well that's easy as well, here's is a complete tutorial on how to do it. In case you are wondering just what the difference is between RSS ...

Video Accessibility, Closed Captions, and Video SEO

Many videos on the net simply aren't seen because they cant get discovered. This can be due to lack of promotion, search engine optimization or effort on the part of the creator. But adding closed captions to a video may be one way in which ...

Neulio Platform for User Generated Training Videos

New Neulio Platform Optimizes Online Instruction by Enabling Multi-Lesson Audio/Video Courses with Integrated Quiz Builder. UPDATE - Looks like they've gone BYE BYE Neulio has announced the launch of a public beta of its new hosted platform for user-generated training, instructional, and how-to content. Unlike ...

Broadcast International and On2 Partner for HD Video

High Definition Video to Internet Computers, Cell Phones and Handhelds Aim of New Agreement Between Broadcast International and On2 Technologies Broadcast International ("BI") and On2 Technologies, leaders in video compression technology and solutions,today announced an agreement to make real-time, high quality video, including high-definition (HD) ...

Details - Adobe Flash Player 9 - Support for HD Video

Flash Player 9 is constructed on the improvements of Flash Player 8 by bringing more power to the runtime by the use of ActionScript 3.0. ActionScript 3.0 brings along strong programming model, innovative performance and observance with the ECMA Script standard. This provides up to ...