Patent ID: 11922974
Assignee: nan
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A method for adding closed captions to an audio-visual file with a computing device comprising a computer processor, a memory, a display screen, a user interface, and a communications module, the method comprising the steps of:
under control of a client system,
displaying a first image on the display screen of the computing device with a multimedia dashboard application executing on the computer processor;
simultaneously displaying a second image on the display screen with the first image and a selection option for modifying the audio-visual file with closed captioning; and
sending a closed caption creation instruction through the communications module to a server system in response to the selection option being chosen through the user interface;

under control of a multimedia sales promotion segment of the server system,
receiving the closed caption creation instruction;
creating a set of closed captions corresponding with the audio-visual file by a voice-to-text transcription software module without further instruction from the computing device; and
merging the set of closed captions with the audio-visual file into a merged audio-visual-closed caption file without further instruction from the computing device; and

saving the merged audio-visual-closed caption file in the server system without further instruction from the computing device.