What did they really say?
There is an awful lot of political chatter in both Canada and the US at the moment. An interesting tool being developed in the Google labs allows you to stay on top of all this chatter. It’s called the Google Audio Indexing (GAudi) technology. Arnaud Sahuguet describes it in a post entitled Straight from the horse’s mouth.
You can now search for and watch political videos right from the Google News US election page.
Just enter the topic you’re interested in, or the sequence of words you want to find, and we’ll search candidates’ YouTube channels to return a set of relevant videos. You can filter the results by channel (all candidates, McCain’s campaign, Obama’s campaign or the presidential debates). When we return a result, we use yellow markers to indicate the exact moments the words you’re looking for are uttered. Just hover over the marker to read the transcript of a short audio snippet or click on it to jump to the right moment inside the video.
It is an interesting example of the power of speech technology. We can expect to hear more and more such applications in the very near future.
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October 16th, 2008 at 4:33 am
As one of the citizen that always been very concerned about the political matters, this GAudi is definitely a useful tool for me to keep me inform about the latest political news…
By the way, thanks for recommended this great tool, Barry!
May 1st, 2009 at 12:04 pm
this may help to ensure that qoutes are never taken out of context again and there is no excuse for politicians to say that they were misqouted when you can look up exactly what was said, quicly and easily.