• SEO-Blog
  • Startseite
  • RSS-Feed, complete Feed
  • About the Blog, Blogcharts
  • Archive: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Weitere Postings
  • Seekport bankruptcy
  • Google PageRank-Update 07/2008
  • Google knows more than 1.000.000.000.000 pages
  • PateRank-Update 07/2008 – analysis
  • Greetings to Bernd Sonnensegel
  • Dates: SEOktoberfest, regulars' table Bonn
  • Distribution of Google Analytics/ AdSense
  • IndexWatch 07/2008
  • Dangers of unnatural link building
  • Google: 403 Forbidden
•  

Is Google trying to make Speech searchable?

Google has – quietly – introduced an interesting improvement to You Tube:
For the US-presidential campaigns, one can not only watch the candidates but can henceforth also search through the videos. Through automated voice-recognition one can not only search the title but the complete “content” of the video and jump straight to that spot in the feed.

A while ago, Google started a free directory assistance in the USA with “1-800-GOOG-411”, which many assumed to have the acquisition of a large number of “voice-samples” as its goal. There seem to have been advancements in this technology so that it is now being tested in a small, controlled area of You Tube. I am curious how long it will take Google until it is ready to use its voice-recognition on a broader front and when it will be used for the web index – there are enough possibilities such as podcasts, etc.