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Comment: Transcription (Score 1) 164

by NNland (#19545847) Attached to: Closed Captioning In Web Video?
In terms of technology, obviously there is VideoLAN client combined with any one of the embedded (or secondary file) subtitle formats. The real issue is transcription for the subtitles. Transana is a project that can be used to help transcribe audio and video, but there is still the issue with needing people to actually do the transcription.
Graphics

Microsoft Move to be the End of JPEG? 447

Posted by CowboyNeal
from the just-a-little-bit-better dept.
jcatcw writes "Microsoft Corp. will submit a new photo format to an international standards organization. The format, HD Photo (formerly known as Windows Media Photo), can accommodate lossless and lossy compression. Microsoft claims that adjustments can be made to color balance and exposure settings that won't discard or truncate data that occurs with other bit-map formats."
Education

High Tech High 2.0 146

Posted by kdawson
from the you-wanted-backward-compatibility? dept.
theodp writes "A week ago, in his How to Keep America Competitive Op-Ed, Bill Gates touted the Gates Foundation-backed High Tech High as the future of American education. One small problem. Two days earlier, tearful Bay Area High Tech High students — recruited by a Bill Gates video — were told that their school of the future has no future. So would Bill be too embarrassed to lay out his education plan before the Senate Wednesday? Nah. Not too surprisingly though, mentions of High Tech High were MIA in Bill's prepared remarks (PDF), which touted Philly's imaginatively named $65M School of the Future, built under the guidance of Microsoft, as the new school of the future. Committee politicians reportedly embraced virtually all of the suggestions made by Gates."
Music

CRB kills streaming Internet radio

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "The Copyright Royalty Board recently announced new rates for streaming Internet radio that require stations to pay a fee per song per listener. Streaming stations already pay 10% of their revenues to the RIAA (compare to traditional broadcast radio stations who pay nothing) but apparently this is not enough; the new fees would amount to 100%-200% of total revenues for a typical streaming station operating today. Furthermore, the fees have been made retroactive to 2006 (can they do this?) meaning that any station that has been operating over the last year would likely owe hundreds of thousands of dollars to the RIAA. Barring the negotiation of a last-minute revenue sharing agreement with the RIAA, this would make Internet radio streaming as a business model completely unsustainable. More details here."

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