5. USER INTERFACE
The web accessible user interface (UI) initially shows an automatically generated HTML page for a default or URL configured query. Subsequent queries the user enter into the page are sent asynchronously by the javascript and rendered on the client-side without reloading the page. We have made two variations of our web UI for audio indexing available. One is an iGoogle gadget, where space limitations are of particular importance. The other is our Labs Page, where more space can be devoted for exploring the videos’ spoken content.
There is a wide range of use cases for the transcript in the UI. Our application is designed to let the user find relevant videos and to quickly navigate to the relevant sections of a particular video. The significant design challenges here are to