Patent Document ID: 9396758
Application ID: 14170621

Base Claim:
1. A method for multimedia content generation, comprising: receiving a textual input; before receiving an audio narration of the textual input, estimating occurrence times of respective components of the audio narration; automatically retrieving from one or more media databases a plurality of media items that are relevant to the textual input; receiving user input, which selects one or more of the automatically-retrieved media items and correlates one or more of the selected media items in time with the textual input; and automatically constructing a video clip, which comprises the audio narration and the selected media items scheduled in accordance with the user input, by scheduling the selected media items in accordance with the estimated occurrence times.

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Claim 4:
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein receiving the user input comprises receiving from a human moderator an instruction to synchronize a selected media item with a component of the textual input, and wherein automatically constructing the video clip comprises synchronizing the selected media item with a narration of the component in the audio narration.