Find out what the candidates said. Search through hundreds of YouTube political videos for what was spoken and watch the snippet where your query term was mentioned, using state-of-the-art Google speech-to-text technology.
Speech Splicing Tool To Keep Candidates Honest? - Anonymous - Oct 19, 2008 - Report this comment
This is a wonderful tool for gauging the repetitiveness of candidates' speeches, and thereby keeping them honest. For example, searching for 'put away the "video games"' returns a surprising number of results from Sen. Obama's speeches around the country (even though he advertises in them). While the TTS isn't perfect it's remarkably spot-on, and of applaudable quality. That said, if any of the brilliant Google engineers are watching this page for ideas, a lofty request that could change the future of citizen journalism: Please consider adding the ability to grab segments or "clips" from extant YouTube videos and provide the ability to either download or splice them together into new video compilations. Being able to excise video segments as easily as newspaper clippings would revolutionize this gadget, YouTube, and possibly even the political world.
people, u hav to remember that the presedint cannot take the troops out of iraq and he cant do a lot of that, only congress can!
Any way to see full transcripts of speeches? - Anonymous - Sep 19, 2008 - Report this comment
I realize that the speech-to-text used here isn't 100% accurate, but even so, is there a way to view a complete transcript of the speeches rather than just a snippet where the term was mentioned? Another great tool either way.
This country cannot afford George W. McCainAnonymous - Sep 19, 2008 - Report this comment
Sarah Irwin wrote: [quote] And this country cannot afford to have its economy socalized and destroyed. [/quote] You don't think our economy has already been destroyed by Bush??? His expensive war that has pushed this country so far into debt, but worse, has cost us so many lives? We need someone that can turn this nation around, restore our global reputation, and McCain is certainly not going to do that. My vote goes to Obama.
Technically you are right and there are more than two people running for predident. However, thanks to mainstream media, they do not get enough coverage to possibly have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. I would love to vote for Ron Paul who will be on the ballet here in Louisiana, unfortunaely that would simply end up being a vote for Obama. I am not not a McCain supporter, but even as a 24-year old female who lived the first 22 years of her life in San Francisco, I understand why this country cannot afford to have Barrack Obama as our predisnt. Yes he says he wants to lower taxes on Americans making less and $250,ooo, and as an American making 21,000 a year that sounds great. However he will also raise taxes on those making more than $250,000 per year. Who are those people? Those our OUR EMPLOYERS. Those people will not sit down and take lower net income. They will lay people off and raise prices to make up the difference, what is the point of a tax cut when you have no job? Worst case secenario it would start another depression, otherwise we'll just end up like France with 20% unemployment and workers rioting. It has been shown time and time again when taxes are lowered, and not just for regular Americans, but for EVERYONE, that gives regular families a break, and our employers more money. And with that extra money, regular families can save, invest, buy stuff and help the economy grow. And our employers also help expand the economy because demand goes up, they have more money to invest, create new jobs, and pay their current employees more money. The newly employed and the employees who get raises in turn go back and spend, and it conintues in a circular fashion. It wont go on like that forever depending on world circumstances and corruption, or a tax hike, but it makes for a strong economy where technologies advance and the American Dream can be realized. Government revenues actually go up when taxes are lower becuase people spend more money when they feel they have more money. So go ahead and vote for a third party candidte, but more than likely you will be giving Barack Obama a free vote. And this country cannot afford to have its economy socalized and destroyed.
Excuse me, but aren't there more than just people running for president? Why not index video and audio from the lesser-known political parties. Just because Republicans and Democrats are the loudest doesn't mean they're the only ones that matter.
What is America doing to tacle cigarette butt litter pollutionRicky AUDAIN - Sep 12, 2008 - Report this comment
Cigarette butt litter is a growing problem around the world. They pollute storm drains and waterways and smokers are generally unaware of the environmental damage caused by cigarette litter. Isn't it time that governments stop forcing the issue onto the manufacturers and start sponsoring campaigns to help the environment. Check out my website www.buttless.org for more information.
Obama will cut your taxes if you make under $250,000, like 95% of Americans. Politics is a place for reasonable discourse, not childish rhymes and lies. http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates_taxproposals_tpc/
OBAMA, OBAMA, TAXARAMA IF YOU DON'T WANT THE TAXMAN TO REIGN, VOTE McCAIN 'CAUSE PALIN COULD KEEP US FROM PAYIN' CLOSE TO ALL WE'RE MAKIN' OBAMA, OBAMA, TAXARAMA DON'T LET THE TAXER REIGN VOTE McCAIN !!!......AFTER ALL IT IS, JUST THAT SIMPLE !!!
once we have done a search, we should be able to export that video..so we can post a youtube link/video on our blog on all of, say,Obama's comments on Health and/or katrina...
Hyper video Player DemonstrationAnonymous - Aug 19, 2008 - Report this comment
Release the text! Or at the very least, put together some graphs for us of what terms are showing up most frequently... A fun one that comes to mind... Over time, as the campaigns have changed, how often does candidate name his opponent?
Please please please expand this to google videos! It's awesome!
What about full captioning?Claude Almansi - Aug 15, 2008 - Report this comment
As the device actually indexes the whole speech content, what about offering the captioning of the whole video instead of just a few words around the searched-for term? "Offering" as a switchable option, that is, as with SMIL captioning for instance. This would make the result WCAG (in US, section 508) compliant.
TVW-using this type of tech for nearly a yearscott freeman - Aug 4, 2008 - Report this comment
Washington State's non-profit public affairs network WA state's equivalent of CSPAN) has been using this type of technology for over a year now and it has been a huge step in helping citizens find what they are looking for and be involved in their government process. TVW has over 60k hours of video/audio voice to text indexed of Washington states Legislative, supreme court and public policy proceedings in Washington state. This is a step in the right direction for you-tube.
Closed Captioning for H/H - Deaf - Conshana Young - Jul 25, 2008 - Report this comment
I have to agree with Andrew Kucharski. I am a become deaf individual, and CC is the only way I can get anything from on-line video, when the words tell the story. IF it is just an action scene, fine, but conversation/vocalization is worthless to me. The Deaf and H/H are almost totally ignored in today's society. Develop it, and increase the accuracy, and it would benefit the hearing, as well, especially in noisy environments! CNN and most news channels are CC, why not video on-line?
closed captioning and subtiteAndrew Kucharski - Jul 18, 2008 - Report this comment
It is a great start! I'm Deaf and I'm disappointed that most clips do not display closed captioning or subtitle on clips. I think your software could translate from speech to text and it would eliminate translators. It would save a lot of costs. I'm pretty sure Deaf and Hard of Hearing customers would love it. It will bring more advertisements.
Cool but Disagree on the Blogging - Brian Carter - Jul 17, 2008 - Report this comment
I've done some speaking and auto-transcription, and the quality of what comes out is not blog quality- you still have to rewrite, edit, etc.
The search seems to find relevant related videos. Thumbs up for that! But it has usability problems: - when you change the search keywords and press the Search Videos buttons, there is no feedback as for when the search results are updated - the links to the videos don't work on Firefox with NoScript, even after allowing Javascript globally. Why don't you provide an actual URL to the video instead of a javascript:void(0) function?
This speech recognition function will be the holy grail for bloggers!Giacomo Dorigo - Jul 17, 2008 - Report this comment
I was just thinking how to solve the writing-blog-consumes-out-all-my-free-time considering the possibility to move to some kind of video or audio blog. However what has been always keeping me away from this kind of things is that even if they allow you to reduce the time you need to produce your material, they increase the time you and your readers need to parse it (and there are all problems linked with the absence of RSS of the video or audio content, the lack of google search, etc.)... But this service is The answer! I just hope one day (not too far away...) it will be available for any YouTube video or for audio blogging... think to this: I talk my Blogger blog, my Blogger blog uploads my talk as an audio file and, at the same time, it writes it as a searchable text, my readers can read it or listen to it and we all save a lot of time... this would be a killer feature for blogging and Blogger... let's hope to have something like this soon...
Hook this up to CSPAN in real time. We all deserve to see what government is doing to us in real time....
This gadget begs for an "I'm feeling lucky!" buttonAnonymous - Jul 16, 2008 - Report this comment
Nice potential. *LQTM: this gadget begs for an "I'm feeling lucky!" button. Thanks Google - given all confusion about what's being said already this may become a really useful service. It does have some kinks so keep it moving. DesignPolice
I typed in "poor" and it took me to a section in Obama's speech where he mentioned education "from the day they are 'born'" Still, a good start by the looks of it, hope to see the same thing when we have our general elections in the Uk!
It's great to see Google finally heading in this direction, but given that there have been a number of search technologies that could do all this for awhile, it's disappointing that this is so limited and confined to a gadget.
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Speech Splicing Tool To Keep Candidates Honest?
- Anonymous - Oct 19, 2008 - Report this comment
This is a wonderful tool for gauging the repetitiveness of candidates' speeches, and thereby keeping them honest. For example, searching for 'put away the "video games"' returns a surprising number of results from Sen. Obama's speeches around the country (even though he advertises in them). While the TTS isn't perfect it's remarkably spot-on, and of applaudable quality. That said, if any of the brilliant Google engineers are watching this page for ideas, a lofty request that could change the future of citizen journalism: Please consider adding the ability to grab segments or "clips" from extant YouTube videos and provide the ability to either download or splice them together into new video compilations. Being able to excise video segments as easily as newspaper clippings would revolutionize this gadget, YouTube, and possibly even the political world.
xoxspartagirlxox@aim.com - Oct 6, 2008 - Report this comment
people, u hav to remember that the presedint cannot take the troops out of iraq and he cant do a lot of that, only congress can!
Any way to see full transcripts of speeches?
- Anonymous - Sep 19, 2008 - Report this comment
I realize that the speech-to-text used here isn't 100% accurate, but even so, is there a way to view a complete transcript of the speeches rather than just a snippet where the term was mentioned? Another great tool either way.
This country cannot afford George W. McCain Anonymous - Sep 19, 2008 - Report this comment
Sarah Irwin wrote: [quote] And this country cannot afford to have its economy socalized and destroyed. [/quote] You don't think our economy has already been destroyed by Bush??? His expensive war that has pushed this country so far into debt, but worse, has cost us so many lives? We need someone that can turn this nation around, restore our global reputation, and McCain is certainly not going to do that. My vote goes to Obama.
Sarah Irwin - Sep 19, 2008 - Report this comment
Technically you are right and there are more than two people running for predident. However, thanks to mainstream media, they do not get enough coverage to possibly have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. I would love to vote for Ron Paul who will be on the ballet here in Louisiana, unfortunaely that would simply end up being a vote for Obama. I am not not a McCain supporter, but even as a 24-year old female who lived the first 22 years of her life in San Francisco, I understand why this country cannot afford to have Barrack Obama as our predisnt. Yes he says he wants to lower taxes on Americans making less and $250,ooo, and as an American making 21,000 a year that sounds great. However he will also raise taxes on those making more than $250,000 per year. Who are those people? Those our OUR EMPLOYERS. Those people will not sit down and take lower net income. They will lay people off and raise prices to make up the difference, what is the point of a tax cut when you have no job? Worst case secenario it would start another depression, otherwise we'll just end up like France with 20% unemployment and workers rioting. It has been shown time and time again when taxes are lowered, and not just for regular Americans, but for EVERYONE, that gives regular families a break, and our employers more money. And with that extra money, regular families can save, invest, buy stuff and help the economy grow. And our employers also help expand the economy because demand goes up, they have more money to invest, create new jobs, and pay their current employees more money. The newly employed and the employees who get raises in turn go back and spend, and it conintues in a circular fashion. It wont go on like that forever depending on world circumstances and corruption, or a tax hike, but it makes for a strong economy where technologies advance and the American Dream can be realized. Government revenues actually go up when taxes are lower becuase people spend more money when they feel they have more money. So go ahead and vote for a third party candidte, but more than likely you will be giving Barack Obama a free vote. And this country cannot afford to have its economy socalized and destroyed.
Only two parties? Benjamin Smith - Sep 18, 2008 - Report this comment
Excuse me, but aren't there more than just people running for president? Why not index video and audio from the lesser-known political parties. Just because Republicans and Democrats are the loudest doesn't mean they're the only ones that matter.
What is America doing to tacle cigarette butt litter pollution Ricky AUDAIN - Sep 12, 2008 - Report this comment
Cigarette butt litter is a growing problem around the world. They pollute storm drains and waterways and smokers are generally unaware of the environmental damage caused by cigarette litter. Isn't it time that governments stop forcing the issue onto the manufacturers and start sponsoring campaigns to help the environment. Check out my website www.buttless.org for more information.
re: "Taxarama" Anonymous - Sep 8, 2008 - Report this comment
Obama will cut your taxes if you make under $250,000, like 95% of Americans. Politics is a place for reasonable discourse, not childish rhymes and lies. http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates_taxproposals_tpc/