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A reddit comment on this purchase says this: Google tends to look a few steps ahead. Remember that whole debacle with GOOG-411 and speech recognition?
by xccx 17y ago
A reddit comment on this purchase says this:
Google tends to look a few steps ahead.
Remember that whole debacle with GOOG-411
and speech recognition? They intend to use
the free GOOG-411 service to improve their
speech recognition so that YouTube videos
can eventually have automatic closed captioning,
and can -- in turn -- be searchable by Google
and can offer a whole new era of video search
results.
The automatic closed captioning is especially interesting. Any truth to it?
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/97rc8/if_youtube_is_causing_google_to_lose_millions_a/c0bpz24 http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/97rc8/if_youtube...
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoPart of Google Voice is automated transcription of voice mails. It's still not perfect, but like close captioning and OCR of books, it doesn't have to be 100% to be useful for search purposes.