[LINK] Re: searchable video

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

>
>  SEARCHABLE VIDEO LECTURES .. video indexing 
> using automatic speech recognition technology.
> <http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/>
> <http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19747/page1/>


Searching videos will be essential in future. MIT's working on
speech recognition .. Google's the other way, text recognition.


WebProNews. January 5, 2008  <http://www.WebProNews.com>

Patent For Google. by David A. Utter | Staff Writer

"Recognizing Text In Images" served as the main idea for a Google 
patent filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization.

The search engine could have another avenue for gathering 
information from the world it sees. A pair of Google's engineers 
have applied for a patent that would enable machines to read text 
included in pictures.

An InformationWeek report said the patent would allow tasks like 
searching videos by keywords appearing in the content as one example.

Pulling off a technology that could do this would be quite a feat. 
In a real world full of myriad typefaces and languages, it seems
Google will have a challenge in implementing the patent, should
they have plans to do so."
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Cheers people
Stephen Loosley
Victoria Australia