Microsoft Video Breakdown is now Video Indexer with new AI features

Video Indexer is a cloud service that enables you to extract the following insights from your videos using artificial intelligence technologies:+

• Audio Transcription: Video Indexer has speech-to-text functionality, which enables customers to get a transcript of the spoken words. Supported languages include English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese (Brazilian), Japanese and Russian (with much more to come in the future).
• Face tracking and identification: Face technologies enable detection of faces in a video. The detected faces are matched against a celebrity database to evaluate which celebrities are present in the video. Customers can also label faces that do not match a celebrity. Video Indexer builds a face model based on those labels and can recognize those faces in videos submitted in the future.
• Speaker indexing: Video Indexer has the ability to map and understand which speaker spoke which words and when.
• Visual text recognition: With this technology, Video Indexer service extracts text that is displayed in the videos.
• Voice activity detection: This enables Video Indexer to separate background noise and voice activity.
• Scene detection: Video Indexer has the ability to perform visual analysis on the video to determine when a scene changes in a video.
• Keyframe Extraction: Video Indexer automatically detects keyframes in a video.
• Sentiment analysis: Video Indexer performs sentiment analysis on the text extracted using speech-to-text and optical character recognition, and provide that information in the form of positive, negative of neutral sentiments, along with timecodes.
• Translation: Video Indexer has the ability to translate the audio transcript from one language to another. The following languages are supported: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese-Simplified, Portuguese-Brazilian, Japanese, and Russian. Once translated, the user can even get captioning in the video player in other languages.
• Visual content moderation: This technology enables detection of adult and/or racy material present in the video and can be used for content filtering.
• Keywords extraction: Video Indexer extracts keywords based on the transcript of the spoken words and text recognized by visual text recognizer.
• Annotation: Video Indexer annotates the video based on a pre-defined model of 2000 objects.

What are the differences between Video Breakdown and Video Indexer?

Following is a list of differences between Video Breakdown and Video Indexer

1. Video Breakdown enabled sharing of content between employees of an organization. Video Indexer does not have that functionality. If you are interested in sharing videos among employees, then please look at Microsoft Stream.
2. Video Breakdown showcased videos made public by other users of Video Breakdown. Video Indexer does not do that.
3. Video Breakdown did not have the concept of an account. Video Indexer creates an account when you sign up for the service and makes you an admin on that account. During the public preview, you can be an admin on one account, but you can be a contributor to multiple accounts.
4. Video Indexer enables you to invite other people to become contributors to your account. Contributors cannot invite other people. Only admins can.For more information https://www.videoindexer.ai/ 

Siva Sankar