A Video Segmentation and Annotation Tool for Parliamentary Recordings and Transcriptions

The Parliament of Andalusia records all the parliamentary sessions as well as generates files with the exact transcription of the files. With these two types of media, a search engine, starting from a user’s query, would return the relevant documents for that query, but also a link to the corresponding portion of the video where the speech is played. To achieve this goal, a previous tool to segment the videos and later to annotate or synchronize text and video must be developed. In this paper we describe the tool for segmentation and annotation, more specially the simple but effective and efficient segmentation algorithm developed exclusively for the special features of the videos from the Parliament of Andalusia.