--- title: "Search Audio and Video · AssistantGeneral" description: "Recordings and videos are transcribed on your machine and searched in 30-second moments. Answers cite the minute and second, and a click plays it from there." url: "https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/features/audio-and-video/" source: "https://royalsoftworks.com" format: "markdown" note: "Markdown rendering of the HTML page at `url`. Same content, same canonical URL." --- Features · Your documents # Find the moment in a recording. Recordings and videos are transcribed on your machine and searched in 30-second moments. Answers cite the minute and second, and a click plays it from there. [Editions](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/editions/): Every edition. Seeing what is on screen needs an optional download. ## Recordings and video, feature by feature Each comes with a small drawing of how it works. They are diagrams, not screenshots; numbers in them are examples. - ### Moments, not whole files A recording is cut into 30-second moments by default, each searched on its own. The length is adjustable. Timeline (30-second moments): 0:00, 0:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00. - ### Transcribed on your computer Speech becomes text line by line, each line tagged with its time. No audio leaves the machine. For your IT team: Whisper, run on the processor. Diagram: Audio → Whisper (processor) → \[0:42\] a line. - ### What is on screen With the optional download, frames are described in words by the vision model, so a moment can be found by what is shown. Diagram: A frame every 2 s → Vision model → “A chart of Q3 sales”. - ### How it sounds The default search model also reads sound, so a moment can be found by what it sounds like. Diagram: Sound → Search model → Found by sound. - ### Your choice of detail How often a frame is looked at, how much picture detail is kept, and whether the graphics card helps. Diagram: Frame interval, Low / Normal / High, Graphics card. - ### Cited to the second Answers cite the minute and second. A click plays the recording from that moment in the app's own player, or opens it in yours. Diagram: Answer \[1:42\] → Click → Plays from 1:42. - ### YouTube by the moment Video transcripts are kept in timed windows too. Timeline (Transcript in timed windows): 0:00, 0:30, 1:00, 1:30. ## Goes well with - [Files it reads](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/features/file-types/) - [Search models](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/features/embedding-models/) - [Voice](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/features/voice/) [Previous Files it reads](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/features/file-types/) [Next Knowledge map](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/features/knowledge-insights/) [All 31 feature classes](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/features/)