Unlock video insights
Extract rich insights from video and audio files using a rich set of machine learning algorithms.
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About Azure Video Indexer
Azure Video Indexer (formerly Azure Video Analyzer for Media) builds upon media AI technologies to make it easier to extract insights from videos. Power new forms of content discovery such as searching for spoken words, faces, characters, and emotions. Enrich your apps with embedded video insights to drive user engagement.
Make your content more discoverable
Azure Video Indexer enables you to extract visual and speech metadata from your videos, which can be used to build enhanced search experiences in your existing apps.
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Improve engagement with your videos
Metadata extracted can be used to build powerful engagement experiences with recommendations, highlight clips and interactive videos.
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Make your video apps more intelligent
Integrate cognitive video insights into your apps at scale using widgets and simple APIs without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.
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Audio and Video AI features
Video
Face detection
Detect faces appearing in the video.
Animated character detection
Detect, group, identify, and customize animated characters.
Celebrity identification (Limited Access)
Identify celebrities and view their biographies.
Custom face identification (Limited Access)
Customize the model to identify specific faces.
People's detected clothing
Detect clothing of people appearing in the video.
Observed people
Detect people spotted in the video and follow their path with bounding boxes.
Object identification
Automatically identify and label objects (for example: cat, table, car, ball, etc.) when they appear.
Visual content moderation
Detect and prevent explicit visual content.
Keyframe extraction
Automatically detect stable keyframes.
On-screen text recognition (OCR)
Extract and group text that appears on video as overlay, slides, or in the background.
Scene segmentation
Segment a video by semantic scenes.
Shot detection
Detect when a shot starts and ends, based on visual analysis.
Shot type detection
Detect shot types like wide, close-up, interior, face positions, and multiple faces.
Rolling credits detection
Identify rolling credits at the end of the video.
Black-frame detection
Identify black frames in video.
Audio
Spoken content moderation
Detect explicit language and dialogue.
Audio effects
Identify audio effects such as clapping, laughter, and speech.
Captioning
Create subtitles in any of three formats: WebVTT, TTML, or SRT.
Translation
Translate any text, including spoken text, written text, and keywords, into more than 40 languages.
Language identification
Detect the spoken language from audio.
Multi-language detection
Auto-detect multiple languages in spoken text.
Automated transcription
Convert speech to text in 10 languages and allow extensions.
Transcript customization
Adapt transcripts to industry, market, or domain specific terms.
Two-channel processing
Auto-detect speakers, balance audio, separate and merge transcripts.
Noise reduction
Clear up telephony audio or noisy recordings.
Speaker identification
Understand who spoke when.
Speaker stats
View metrics on who spoke how much relative to other speakers.
Audio + Video
Keyword extraction
Find the keywords mentioned in each segment.
Topic inference
Identify main topics.
Sentiment analysis
Compare levels of positive and negative sentiments throughout the audio and/or video.
Audio effects (public preview)
Identify non-speech audio effects.
Emotion detection
Detect emotions expressed in speech, vocal signals.
Named entities
Track and customize mentioned people, locations and brands in spoken or on-screen text.
Other features
Inline editing
Manually edit any indexing results or output.
Highlight-reel editing
Store source video once and create multiple edits of video segments.
Contextual search
Search inside your videos and find smart matches from audio, video, and AI-identified insights.
Widgets
Embed delightful insights and video player widgets in your website or application.
Recommendations
Find related videos with similar people discussing similar topics.
REST API
Easily integrate with your application using our robust REST API.
Try Azure Video Indexer for free
Start with a free account for up to 40 indexing hours. For unlimited indexing,
create an Azure Video Indexer account with your Azure subscription.