Patent ID: 8311832

Claim:
A method performed by a hybrid-captioning system to edit captions for spoken utterances within video, the method comprising: editing, in an editor-type caption-editing subsystem of the hybrid-captioning system, captions for spoken utterances within the video on a groups-of-lines basis without respect to particular lines of the captions and without respect to temporal positioning of the captions in relation to the spoken utterances; editing, in a line-based caption-editing subsystem of the hybrid-captioning system, the captions for spoken utterances within the video on a line-by-line basis with respect to particular lines of the captions and with respect to temporal positioning of the captions in relation to the spoken utterances; for each section of spoken utterances within the video, selecting, by a mechanism of the hybrid-captioning system, the editor-type caption-editing subsystem or the line-based caption-editing subsystem to provide the captions for the section of spoken utterances in accordance with a predetermined criteria, wherein the mechanism, for each section of spoken utterances within the video, selects the editor-type caption-editing subsystem or the line-based caption-editing subsystem to provide the captions for the section of spoken utterances based on a certainty level of voice recognition as to the section of spoken utterances, wherein, for each section of spoken utterances within the video, where the certainty level of voice recognition as to the section of spoken utterances is greater than a predetermined threshold, the mechanism selects the line-based caption-editing subsystem to provide the captions for the section of spoken utterances, and otherwise selects the editor-type caption-editing subsystem to provide the captions for the section of spoken utterances, and wherein generation of the captions is independent of an input path selected from the group of input paths essentially consisting of: a microphone path, and a file path.