> ## Documentation Index
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# Media Description

> Understanding media descriptions and their capabilities

## What are Media Descriptions?

Media Descriptions are structured pieces of information that describe a video and its content.

The most familiar kind of media description is a speech transcript, which composes of the verbal speech from a video. We see this commonly in places like YouTube, and nowadays many meeting software tools also offer this as a feature.

While speech transcripts are a great source of rich and deep information, they are not the only kind of media description that Cloudglue offers.

Cloudglue also exposes other kinds of media descriptions, including:

* **Visual scene descriptions**: A description of the visual scene in a video.
* **Scene text**: The text that is visible on the screen in a video.

Combining speech, with these other media description types allows Cloudglue to turn your videos into a rich and structured source of information.

## What can you use it for?

### Speech

Speech transcripts are the most intuitive kind of media description, and are the most commonly used. They are a great source of information for a variety of use cases, including:

* Searching for specific words or phrases
* Finding key takeaways or action items from a meeting
* Generating a summary of a conversation

### Visual scene descriptions

Visual scene descriptions are a great way to know what is physically happening in a video. They are a great way to understand the context and setting of a video, and are a great way to identify key visual elements or objects in a scene.

Examples of visual scene descriptions include:

* Detecting important visual cues or actions
* Monitoring product placement or branding
* Identifying people or objects in the scene
* Understanding visual transitions between scenes
* Analyzing visual composition and framing

### Scene text

Scene text is the text that is visible on the screen in a video. Commonly, this could be closed captioning, but it could also be other text that is visible on the screen.

Examples of scene text include:

* Closed captioning
* Text from a presentation
* Text from a document or on the background
* Menu text or product labels

### Putting it all together

Separately, each of these media description types are great on their own, but when combined, they can provide a very methodical and deep way to understand different scenes throughout a video. Speech allows you to know what is being said for context at a time, while visual scene descriptions and scene text allow you to really understand who, what, when, and where a scene is taking place.