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From internal meetings to external briefings to speeches at congress and all across the government, many agencies today are drowning in video. They can post on YouTube but it’s often just too much for people to watch. People want to people to find what they are looking for quickly.
Azure Video Indexer is a video analytics service that uses AI to extract actionable insights from stored videos. Enhance ad insertion, digital asset management, and media libraries by analyzing audio and video content—no machine learning expertise necessary.
- Start turning Agency videos of talks and interviews into insights right away
- Automatically create transcripts of agency meetings with indexes that let citizens find the parts that interest them
- Quickly and easily extract insights from videos using artificial intelligence for detecting spoken words, faces, characters, and emotions.
Risks
Users must comply with all applicable laws in your use of Azure Video Indexer, and you may not use Azure Video Indexer or any Azure service in a manner that violates the rights of others, or that may be harmful to others. Before uploading any video/image to Azure Video Indexer, You must have all the proper rights to use the video/image, including, where required by law, all the necessary consents from individuals (if any) in the video/image, for the use, processing, and storage of their data in Azure Video Indexer and Azure. Some jurisdictions may impose special legal requirements for the collection, online processing and storage of certain categories of data, such as biometric data. Before using Azure Video Indexer and Azure for the processing and storage of any data subject to special legal requirements, You must ensure compliance with any such legal requirements that may apply to You
Rationale
Azure Video Indexer is a video analytics service that uses AI to extract actionable insights from stored videos. Enhance ad insertion, digital asset management, and media libraries by analyzing audio and video content—no machine learning expertise necessary.
- Start turning Agency videos of talks and interviews into insights right away
- Automatically create transcripts of agency meetings with indexes that let citizens find the parts that interest them
- Quickly and easily extract insights from videos using artificial intelligence for detecting spoken words, faces, characters, and emotions.
As-Is
Azure Video Indexer is a cloud application, part of Azure Applied AI Services, built on Azure Media Services and Azure Cognitive Services (such as the Face, Translator, Computer Vision, and Speech). It enables you to extract the insights from your videos using Azure Video Indexer video and audio models. Azure Video Indexer analyzes the video and audio content by running 30+ AI models, generating rich insights. Below is an illustration of the audio and video analysis performed by Azure Video Indexer in the background.
Business Process Model
When creating an Azure Video Indexer account, you can choose a free trial account (where you get a certain number of free indexing minutes) or a paid option (where you aren't limited by the quota). With free trial, Azure Video Indexer provides up to 600 minutes of free indexing to website users and up to 2400 minutes of free indexing to API users. With paid option, you create an Azure Video Indexer account that is connected to your Azure subscription and an Azure Media Services account. You pay for minutes indexed, for more information, see Media Services pricing
Sign up for Azure Video Indexer
To start developing with Azure Video Indexer, browse to the Azure Video Indexer website and sign up.
Once you start using Azure Video Indexer, all your stored data and uploaded content are encrypted at rest with a Microsoft managed key.
Upload a video
- Sign in on the Azure Video Indexer website.
- To upload a video, press the Upload button or link.
- Once your video has been uploaded, Azure Video Indexer starts indexing and analyzing the video. As a result a JSON output with insights is produced.
- The produced JSON output contains Insights and SummarizedInsights elements. We highly recommend using Insights and not using SummarizedInsights (which is present for backward compatibility).
- Once Azure Video Indexer is done analyzing, you'll get an email with a link to your video and a short description of what was found in your video. For example: people, spoken and written words, topics, and named entities.
- You can later find your video in the library list and perform different operations. For example: search, reindex, edit.
After you upload and index a video, you can continue using Azure Video Indexer website or Azure Video Indexer Developer Portal to see the insights of the video (see Examine the Azure Video Indexer output).
Sign up for Azure Video Indexer and upload your first video - Azure - Azure Video Indexer | Microsoft Docs (link takes you to an external page)