EchoVideo

When the ASR system generates VTTs they contain numerous instances where sentences are fragmented across lines. Often the last word of a sentence appears on a separate line with a very short timestamp (often just milliseconds). It’s so short that when published to the caption track, those 1-line captions do not appear on the video. Even if they do appear on the video, having the last word of a sentence appear on it’s own is disorienting to read. This happens in videos of every audio quality, be that high production value or live lecture. I’d like to request a feature that addresses the sentence fragmentation issue in VTT files. Specifically, a post-processing script or built-in functionality that can automatically merge these short, fragmented segments with the preceding segment. If possible this script should ideally be able to define a minimum segment duration. Segments shorter than the threshold (300 milliseconds for example) should be considered candidates for merging. In tandem with that, the script should be able to examine the text content of short segments. If a segment contains a single word with punctuation, it should be merged. When segments are merged, the end timestamp of the combined segment should become the end timestamp of the original last segment. This script could be a toggle in the transcript editor and generate a new “version” of the transcript, or it can be on by default. Here's an example of the end of a sentence breaking onto one line: ------- 00:45:56.979 --> 00:46:00.969 So usually following major extinction events, you have increases of 00:46:00.969 --> 00:46:01.118 diversity. ------ And here’s an example how the script should make this timestamp look: ------ 00:45:56.979 --> 00:46:01.118 So usually following major extinction events, you have increases of diversity. ------

Could Echo360 make the API for Class and Class Group open/public? So that we can create Class Groups and Classes via API call based on our Timetabling. Currently, users can only manually do this via UI, and they want to group the classes into teaching weeks. For example, three classes (Class 1, 2, 3) for 12 teaching week (Week 1, 2, 3, etc).

Many instances faculty are clicking the "Done" button instead of Share when adding media to a class thus removing all their selections. Most of them are sharing media to section from their Library and using the "New Class" option not "Existing Class." They find it frustrating when they accidentally click "Done" instead of "Share". Please remove the "Done" button or rename it "Cancel" which could close the entire Share To window. Thanks in advance.

It would be useful for Admins to be able to use a rich content editor when including a University Policies and Copyright Policy. I'd like to format the text and include hyperlinks to university policies where appropriate.

It would be helpful if instructors could see the room that is scheduled for a recording when viewing their Echo360 course section. We frequently have instructors who teach in a variety of rooms, and having the transparency for them to see the recording location for a scheduled capture would help reassure instructors that their captures have been scheduled correctly.

I was excited to discover account-level alerts that include an alert if the "required audio input is missing or silence detected for 10 minutes (scheduled capture)." I shared this with an instructor who'd had an audio issue - only to discover it's not available to instructors. It's unreasonable for an admin to get all the alerts for the whole institution. My colleague tried briefly and said it was a disaster. I see no reason why an instructor can't be notified at least about the audio issue if not the other alerts. PLEASE. :)

According to our documentation ( https://support.echo360.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035406171-EchoVideo-Automatic-Speech-Recognition-ASR-Service-for-Media-Transcription#h_01J09DBE6D1C2SZSE6PK3F2BAX ) Amazon ASR will not transcribe media over 4 hours in length at all. So, my recommendation is that when creating a schedule if the schedule is for 4 hours or longer we should have a notification in the UI telling users that ASR will not work for media that is 4 hours or longer. We should recommend that if this is a 4 hour lab they should cut it a minute short at the beginning or end so that it will still be automatically transcribed. We should also link out to a doc that has information on what to do if a capture is 4 hours or longer and the user wants it to have a transcription.

When searching for Videos in Archive to restore - using static link of video to search. Instances where videos are named the same but presented different years/semesters.

Love the addition of Total % Viewed. Could you have in this overview a Average Total % Viewed too?

As an Admin I need to be able to manage the Source Inputs that show up in the list of available devices for my Rooms. We refresh our Room A/V equipment every few years and this can result in multiple input sources (audio, video and display) showing up that we no longer use in the Room.