US Patent:
20120078626, Mar 29, 2012
Inventors:
Johney Tsai - Irvine CA, US
Matthew Miller - Santa Margarita CA, US
David Strong - Laguna Niguel CA, US
International Classification:
G10L 15/26
Abstract:
Methods and systems for converting speech to text are disclosed. One method includes analyzing multimedia content to determine the presence of closed captioning data. The method includes, upon detecting closed captioning data, indexing the closed captioning data as associated with the multimedia content. The method also includes, upon failure to detect closed captioning data in the multimedia content, extracting audio data from multimedia content, the audio data including speech data, performing a plurality of speech to text conversions on the speech data to create a plurality of transcripts of the speech data, selecting text from one or more of the plurality of transcripts to form an amalgamated transcript, and indexing the amalgamated transcript as associated with the multimedia content.