Google launches speech-to-text search
August 4, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Now there’s a new speech-to-text technology from Google in which you type in a word or a phrase and it searches through YouTube videos to find all the instances where someone said it.
Right now, it’s being used on YouTube’s You Choose video page and applied to all of John McCain and Barack Obama’s YouTube videos, both those produced by their campaigns and by everyday folk. Look on the lower left hand in the search box and type in whatever you want to hear them talk about, be it Global warming, the Surge in Iraq, abortion, gay rights, whatever.
If you want to see a transcription, as the video plays, put the cursor of the timeline and you can read along, too.
For now, this new technology is being used only Read more
