Self-improving approximator in media editing method and apparatus

[0017] A description of example embodiments of the invention follows.

[0018] The present invention provides a media / video time approximation for text location in a transcript of the audio in a video or multimedia work. More specifically, one of the uses of the invention media time location technique is for editing video by text selections and for editing text by video / media selections.

[0019]FIG. 1 illustrates a computer network or similar digital processing environment in which the present invention may be implemented.

[0020] Client computer(s) / devices 50 and server computer(s) 60 provide processing, storage, and input / output devices executing application programs and the like. Client computer(s) / devices 50 can also be linked through communications network 70 to other computing devices, including other client devices / processes 50 and server computer(s) 60. Communications network 70 can be part of a remote access network, a global network (e.g., the Internet), a worldwide c