Posted by Arnaud Sahuguet and Ari Bezman, Product ManagersIn this U.S. election year, what information could be more important than the candidates' own words to describe their views, actions and platforms?Our teams have been working to develop tools to make it easier for people to track election-related information. A few months back, YouTube encouraged everyone to participate in the discussion process through the CNN/YouTube debates, Google Checkout offered an easy and fast way for individuals ...
EricaJoy said:
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.