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Speech Recognition Gadget from GoogleAvailable, for now, only to political enthusiasts |
By Denisa Ilascu, Internet / SEO News Editor
15th of July 2008, 09:42 GMT
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Google seems to understand that none of the key topics of social life should remain uncovered. With a touch of recent technology, social applications have the potential of becoming a hit. Since 2008 is the year of great changes on the political scene, the company has decided to launch yet another tool to come in handy to those who don't want to fall behind with what politicians have to say.
Until now, anyone interested could see all the speeches
of the two candidates, Obama and McCain, as well as other campaign highlights, on YouTube's Politicians Channel. Google's new Elections Video Search Gadget offers a text-based indexing of political videos. When someone wants to find out if Obama, for example, said something about the decrease of taxes in his most recent speech, they can search for the "decrease taxes" key words. A cursor indicates if and where the terms are contained in the frame of the speech. Furthermore, a full transcription of the political discourse is available for those who prefer to cast a quick look through the text, rather than follow a ten-minute video.
The speech recognition gadget is, for now, a useful tool only for a small-scale segment of users. Arnaud Sahuguet and Ari Bezman, Product Managers at Google, announced the launch of the innovation on Google's official blog. "In addition to providing voters with election information, we also hope to find out more about how people use speech technology to search and consume videos, and to learn what works and what doesn't, to help us improve our products," a statement of the two read, suggesting that the technology might be implemented in several other applications.
The users who responded positively to the launch of the gadget expressed their eagerness for the product to become available for all YouTube videos, as well as for personal desktop applications. Until that happens, however, some improvements must be made. The team itself admitted that the tool doesn't always return the best results. "While some of the transcript snippets you see may not be 100% accurate, we hope that you'll find the product useful for most purposes," Sahuguet and Bezman added.
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