Enriching digital public broadcasting archives with AXES audio and video analysis tools

Searching the archives using images or speech without relying on existing metadata. Finding shots on a particular person or object in an audiovisual collection in an instant, obtaining video segments with similar content, tracing video items based on spoken text and obtaining related transcripts. Most journalists can only dream of such processes and tools, making their (professional) lives so much easier and, above all, more efficient. AXES (Access to Audiovisual Archives) offers journalists - among other user groups - a platform that can do this. It includes a set of tools to interact with audiovisual libraries in new engaging ways, integrating advanced video and audio analysis technologies. Public broadcasting archives can thus become much richer repositories, and their use more productive.