Using the Azure Media Analytics Indexer

In the following example, we are going to create closed caption files for a video using the Azure Media Analytics Media Indexer. Microsoft recommends using Azure Media Analytics over the Video API from Cognitive Services, so that's what we are going to use here. We are going to use the speech to text feature of the Azure Media Indexer 2 Preview media processor (MP) to create subtitles for the video from a Console Application.

For this example, you need to create a Media Service Account in the Azure Portal. For a complete walkthrough on how to create this, you can refer to: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/media-services-portal-create-account.

When the Azure Media Service account ...

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