Patent ID: 8140341

Claim:
A method for editing timed and annotated data, the method comprising: acquiring a multimedia data stream; segmenting the multimedia stream into a video data and an audio data stream, wherein the playback times of the video and audio data streams are synchronized; associating playback time annotation indicators with the time synchronized video and audio data streams, wherein discrete playback time annotation indicators of the video data stream segments correlate with discrete playback time annotation indicators of the audio data stream segments; creating a transcript of the audio data stream; associating the discrete playback time annotation indicators of the audio data stream words, or phrases that are reproduced within the audio data stream with respective corresponding textual representations of the words, or phrases that are comprised within the transcript; editing the transcript of the audio data stream; and outputting the transcript, the video data and audio data streams in a predetermined data format; wherein a predetermined interpolation technique is utilized to approximate the time annotation indicator that will be associated with each letter that is edited within the transcript.