Sometime back, Google introduced speech recognition in YouTube that enables you to search for words spoken in the video and you could also directly jump to the portion where that word was said.
Initially you had to install an iGoogle gadget to experience YouTube’s speech recognition but now there’s a dedicated search page for this at Google Audio Indexing - this not just enables you to find spoken words in videos but also share that video portion.
If you like to share a clip where that word was found (or uttered), just click that ‘people’ icon in the YouTube Video player and you’ll get a direct link to that particular video segment.
http://labs.google.com/gaudi?q=obama&start=0&num=10&longId=-5906960400639115923
Like Blinkx, Google too has developed its own speech recognition system (called GAudi, for Google Audio Indexing), which powers both Google Audio Indexing and the Google Elections Video Search gadget.
Google Audio Indexing currently searches only videos related to US Elections that are uploaded on the YouTube political channels.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/youtube-speech-recognition-called-google-audio-indexing/4551/
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Reader Comments
Google is doing something very remarkable as Edison must have done during his times that revoltionized life style technology in the 20th century. Google is ushering in the same benefits in digital form for better entertainment and communication across the internet.
Speech or songs all reduced to digits i.e. in varied combination of Zeros and Ones can in the future be accessed using powerful algorithm that Google has possibly developed for indexing.
Although still in the nascent stage and only limited to the current political battle between Obama and McCain in the forthcoming Presidential Elections, however we all hope that this facility will be extended to talk shows and songs found on the You Tube. This will help us to get more content this time in voice mode.
Written by Somik Ranjan Roy on 09.16.08
What about support for Non-Flash Videos like WMA or MP3 files ?
Written by Chetan on 09.17.08