Everyone likes a bit of YouTube here and there, but with 13 hours of video allegedly being uploaded every minute it's getting more and more difficult to received accurate context-based results on searches. A new technology has been developed to improve all that, and works by automatically transcribing speech from the video track into metadata and embedding it into the file, allowing people to look for keywords that might appear on any particular clip. It's currently being used for presidential campaign videos and a specific YouTube 'YouChoose' page has been set up so that you can give it a try (look for the 'What did candidates say' box at the middle left from the link below). Hopefully this will make its way across the whole collection in due time, though it will of course be affected by the clarity of the speech available, so we guess it's a good job Bush decided not to apply for a third tenure. - Paul Lester [YouChoose] [Beet.TV] YouTube video online

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