Speech Recognition in YouTube
Google has added a nice new feature in YouTube – Speech Recognition capability in some YouTube videos that enables you to search for spoken content in the videos.
To try the Speech Recognition feature in YouTube yourself, add this gadget to your Google homepage. The search is currently limited to some political videos only but it is predicted this feature will be released throughout YouTube’s video database.
If your search query match some YouTube video, the positions are indicated by yellow markers. To read the transcribed text, hover your mouse over those markers.
It usually takes less than a few hours for a video to appear in the index after it has been published on YouTube. Speech recognition is a difficult problem that hasn’t yet been completely solved, but the people at Google are constantly working to refine their algorithms and improve the accuracy and relevance of these transcribed results to achieve almost 100% accuracy of Speech Recognition.
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