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Re: Discussion: Google Must Be Close to Indexing Video Content

themichaelschneider — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:06:21 -0000

Hah! Sweet validation! I knew it. Thanks for weighing in Chris.

Re: Discussion: Google Must Be Close to Indexing Video Content

Chris Brogan... — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:15:20 -0000

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. : )

Re: Discussion: Google Must Be Close to Indexing Video Content

Charles Eichenbaum — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:28:52 -0000

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.