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ScienceCinema highlights scientific videos featuring leading-edge research from DOE. Using innovative, state-of-the-art audio indexing and speech recognition technology from Microsoft Research, it allows users to quickly find video files produced by the DOE national laboratories, other DOE research facilities, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which operates the world’s largest particle physics laboratory outside of Geneva.
In ScienceCinema, users are able to search the full transcripts of videos, just as they might search full-text documents in OSTI’s other products. After the search term is entered into the basic or advanced search field, an audio search is launched, returning results as snippets of text and including timestamps to show when each snippet occurs in the video. Selecting a snippet will begin play of the video at the exact point where the search term or terms are spoken. Lengthy videos are more accessible because users can easily and quickly locate the most relevant parts and play them instantly.