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Google presses forward with Gaudi it’s video and audio indexing project.

By Andrew Redfern @ 17th September 2008 1:26 pm Google Labs

Following hot on the heels of last week’s newspaper archiving announcement comes another massively ambitious project from Google. This one is nothing new, their attempt to use speech recognition to index the contents of audio and video files, GAUDI (Google AUDio Indexing), has been around for a while however today Silicon Valley based search giant has announced that GAUDI has been elevated to the status of a full Google Labs project.

The graduation of the speech recogntion & indexing system has been showcased as a part of YouTube’s Presidential Election coverage. A post on Google’s blog says “Today, the Google speech team (part of Google Research) is launching the Google Elections Video Search gadget, our modest contribution to the electoral process. With the help of our speech recognition technologies, videos from YouTube’s Politicians channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed. Using the gadget you can search not only the titles and descriptions of the videos, but also their spoken content. Additionally, since speech recognition tells us exactly when words are spoken in the video, you can jump right to the most relevant parts of the videos you find”

More information about the system can be found at the GAUDI section of Google Labs FAQs. As well as making sites like YouTube much more interactive this advance will help Google add video content into it’s search results more accurately because now the actual contents of the speech will be indexed rather than just a few accompanying meta tags.

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