Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Audio Indexing Available in Google Labs

Shortly after Google made politicians speeches searchable on the Youtube.com political channel I wrote a post about how this technology if more universally available could have a revolutionary effect on sorting and searching through a wealth of otherwise untapped information.


Berman Post: A Few More Thoughts on Googles Speech-to-Text Technology

"A few days ago the Berman Post had the article "Berman Post: Google Makes Politicians Speeches Searchable" about, well, Google's Speech-to-Text technology. I have a few more thoughts to discus on the mater of Speech-to-Text technology.


...most information recorded in an audio format goes unused and ignored unless someone painstakingly goes through and transcribes it. Even then, there is the persistent problem of inaccuracy. A single word addition or miss could change the entire meaning. In order to figure out if their is an error you would have to try to find the place in the recording that the words were transcribed from and listen yourself. Finding that specific point is usually time consuming, and this process combined with the possible errors means that a lot of transcribed work goes unused as well (or is used with no regard for the possible errors it contains).

Google's (and some others who are working on the same thing) new technology fix this problem. Google as automated the transcription process...
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Today, Google announced that they were making the audio indexing technology available in Google labs. This is great news.


http://googleblog.blogspot.com
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-audio-indexing-now-on-google.html

"Nearly two months ago, we introduced the Google Elections Video Search gadget on iGoogle, a tool that transcribes and indexes the spoken content on YouTube's Politicians channels. It didn't take long for folks to find some creative ways to use it! Now it's possible to enjoy this technology in a bigger way: We just launched Google Audio Indexing (aka GAudi) in Google Labs. The dedicated site offers more features, such as "search within video" and "sharing," and a more robust user interface.

As with all things in Labs, we will continue to experiment with new features. So whether you care about flip-flopping, the glass ceiling, change or taxes, we'll keep working to provide the most relevant results for you.
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