Meeting minutes
<scott_h> following on IRC< hoping to join call shortly
Media synchronization use cases and user needs.
jasonjgw: Just a placeholder for the wiki at the moment
jasonjgw: Any general comments on expanding media synchronization to new forms such as transcript synchronization
janina: Will look at old meeting notes from a meeting where this was discussed several years ago
jasonjgw: Currently, transcripts are provided as separate files
jasonjgw: But not sure how well video APIs can provide navigation to various points in the video
janina: Tools exist to fix post caption files for better synchronization, so that is a model
janina: In musical works, synchronization of text may be possible with MusicXML
jasonjgw: Whether we want textual content to go into media files so that it is embedded and does not have to be a separate file
jasonjgw: Level of synchronization (word or sentence level) would be something to look at
Raja: In transcripts, timestamps are needed. There is more support now in tools that provide synchronization.
Raja: AI is getting better at figuring this out.
Raja: But most synchronization is at the sentence level, not the word level.
Raja: There are differences in what is supported in live streaming vs. pre-recorded.
janina: What differeneces do you see in transcripts? We were hoping that transcripts would include on-screen information and not just spoken dialogue?
Raja: There has been a request for this sort of information, but it seems to mostly come over in text audio descriptions and not in captions.
Raja: There is a best practice for both captions and audio descriptions, and those can be considered.
Janina: We were thinking that for the deaf-blind population, the synchronization with the video was not as important.
Raja: More video players are starting to include the ability to search for words.
jasonjgw: Finding where certain words appear and moving to that point would be useful to some people.
jasonjgw: Seems like we need to do some more investigating on what is currently possible and what so far doesn't exist.
Lionel: In YouTube, timed transcript playing is already available
Lionel: In streaming contexts, the streaming rate can vary depending upon how much video quality is required.
Raja: There are some opensource players that provide some of these capabilities, but am unsure of this is any of the specifications.
janina: The standards do not seem to currently include these capabilities, be we need more exploration
Raja: Happy to help out on tracking these details down
Raja: You are referring to the link you sent on teh mailing list?
Miscelaneous updates and topics.
jasonjgw: Yes...it is just a placeholder right now. We can continue this discussion next week
Ax-Con Presentation
<janina> Jutta Treviranus presentation
janina: Suggest the presentation is something we consider for mining on possible topics
jasonjgw: She also had a good presentation during the Future of Interface conference
jasonjgw: Also some good presentations on other topics worth our focus
XR
jasonjgw: Still negotiating on a meeting time
CTAUR
janina: Waiting on a response from COGA
janina: Not sure as to what format these comments will come in
janina: May have an update next week after COGA meets
jasonjgw: Will still have to peel out comments into GitHub issues
scott_h: Thanks for continuing to work through this!
WoT
janina: APA will be discussing this.
janina: Issues in WoT GitHub repository have been filed...looking at middleware, or "provisioning" as they are calling it
jasonjgw: Important for us to keep following this
jasonjgw: Other comments??
jasonjgw: Our first agendum will come back next week