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July 15, 2008
Google Launches Election Video Gadget with Transcribed Speech Text
Google has launched a new iGoogle gadget that allows users to search for election videos. The gadget uses speech recognition technology, but it leaves a lot to be desired.
The only speech that is transcribed are fragmented snippets. If you click on little yellow squares along the play bar, you can find out the snippet that occurs at that point and jump to that point in the video.
Of course, what would be most useful is a fully transcribed version of the videos. So much of politics seems to be about statements taken out of context (on both sides of the aisle). At least the full video is there.
Posted by Nathania Johnson on July 15, 2008 9:46 AM
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Steve R. July 20, 2008 9:09 PM
Nothing innovative here. Virage Inc. has been doing this for the last 6 years with their Broadcast News Monitoring product, and it can do it with foreign news broadcasts too which are instantly translated into English (or another language) so you can do cross lingual search over all news broadcasts. For example I can search for "Obama's overseas trip" and find relevant coverage across various international news organizations like CCTV (Chinese), RTR Planeta (Russian), BBC (UK English), CNN (US English), Al-Jazeera (Arabic) transcribed to their source language and translated into English with synchronized video playback.