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Discussion: Google Must Be Close to Indexing Video Content

Started by schneidermike · 10 months ago

I figure that Google must be close to having some technology that can actually distinguish the voices in a film or video from the music track. I would guess they can use their text-to-speech capabilities to listen to video content and save either the entire contents or a set of keywords as determin ... Continue reading »

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  • There are probably certain elements of human speech that can be keyed in on (cadence, dynamic modulation, individual’s tone) that differ from ambient noise and music. This might help them isolate the spoken parts of the videos – which in turn might allow them to convert the text to speech and index. They could even try to catalog all known / published video media and try to create some Shazam style identifier to further ID the content (is this “Dude Where’s My Car,” or “amateur” video).I bet you’re right.
  • You know that GOOG-411 is a big voice-training software, right? Further, you've heard of http://everyzing.com , true? There are LOTS of speech-rec services that can catalog the audio stream of a video. There are pattern-rec and visual-rec softwares already leaking into the mainstream that can track faces, certain keyed objects, etc.

    They're doing it. It's just not ready for beta. : )
  • Hah! Sweet validation! I knew it. Thanks for weighing in Chris.

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