Altus makes video searchable down to the spoken word. Let that settle in … “they TiVo the event, and make it searchable like Google”

Here’s what happens. A video is made of a presentation, and then Altus takes the Windows Media file, the PowerPoint file, when the slides were changed … and put them through their software. They:
(a) Take the text out of the slides and make them searchable
(b) They extract the audio and give it to someone to transcribe, ie, type it out
(c) We time every sentence, and store it with a time stamp in a Microsoft SQL Server database

The secret sauce is bringing it all together. In one interface, within vPresenter from Altus, you the video on the top left, the transcript on the bottom left, and the slide on the right. The media is streamed at low bandwidth. The three things work together. Down to the spoken word, everything is searchable. When a search is carried out, there is a highlight of the word within slides and within the spoken words.

There is an announcement today from Altus … Version 5.0 of their Xtreme Knowlege Sharing Platform … that is, a video powered social networking application. Read the press release for more.

This new platform incorporates the latest Web 2.0 community enablement capabilities, such as enterprise collaboration, searchable video technology, blogs, wikis and other next generation enterprise social networking functions.

Learn more about Altus at www.altuscorp.com.

To see an example of what we did at the Enterprise 2.0 show, go visit enterprise2conf.vportal.net. It’s available to everyone.