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Google Unveils New Political Video Search Tool
Google unveiled a new gadget on Tuesday that only searches videos uploaded to YouTube's Politicians channels, which include content from the presidential campaigns of Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and John McCain, R-Ariz., as well as those from dozens of other candidates and politicians.
With the help of speech recognition technology, videos from the specific channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed, the company said on its corporate blog. Using the Google Elections Video Search tool, Web surfers can search not only the titles and descriptions of the videos, but also their spoken content. Additionally, since speech recognition notes when words are spoken, users can jump right to the most relevant parts of the videos.
Candidates can control the videos that appear in the gadget by managing the content they upload to YouTube and speech recognition is still a work in progress -- so Google warned that some of the transcript snippets available may not be 100 percent accurate. For a screenshot of the tool, click here.
Posted by Andrew on July 15, 2008 09:44 AM | Permalink
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