Ferret A New Meeting Browser Mike Flynn, Maël Guillemot, Pierre Wellner IDIAP, January 2004

Aims Demonstrate M4 project outputs –Media of recordings –Segmentations –Transcripts –ASR results –Other data…(?)

Ferret Features Uses real data User chooses data to display –Allows data to live anywhere (not just mmm.idiap.ch) –Data “basket” Handles long and short meetings Uses normal IE browser (& RealPlayer, SVG) Builds on: –Stephan Marchand-Maillet’s SVG-based browser –Pierre Wellner’s MMM browser

Demonstration

XMLtoSV G Servlet Processin g Various Text Transcripts Ferret Architecture Internet Explorer Media Real Server Real Player Servlets, CGI & JSP Processin g Apache Tomcat SVG Viewer XML Data Server Client

Status & Future Demonstrator on schedule Allow basket to hold media & transcripts Data format to be standardised –AGTK? –NITE? –Home brew? Database integration –Protocol to be defined