First there was Google Checkout being set up on YOUTUBE for candidate fundraising and now this... a way to index political speeches/text using voice recognition software, for easy discover on Google. Google's blog just announced this 'proof of concept' step into video text indexing is available now on their political channesl:
Today, the Google speech team (part of Google Research) is launching the Google Elections Video Search gadget, our modest contribution to the electoral process. With the help of our speech recognition technologies, videos from YouTube's Politicians channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed. Using the gadget you can search not only the titles and descriptions of the videos, but also their spoken content. Additionally, since speech recognition tells us exactly when words are spoken in the video, you can jump right to the most relevant parts of the videos you find.
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