Well it was bound to happen, but it looks like Google is going to be the first search company to introduce a form of speech recognition for audio to allow for faster searches. This will not only allow for faster searches for audio and video clips but, faster searches through the actual clips themselves.
This little piece of technology was quietly launched by Google and has been dubbed GAUdi by the ad giant. As of right now it is limited to political speeches found on YouTube but should gradually become more widespread.
While this little bit of tech looks cool on the surface I would like to throw the conspiracy buffs a bone to chew on. Speech recognition is often used by intelligence agencies to clue off on word in conversations during surveillance. Now this might seem to be nothing but remember that Google is developing a phone. Anyone want to wager that it might be setup eventually to index your conversations and push ads you way based on what you say?
But all of that aside one humorous note. Gaudy, the phonetic match of GAudi means tastelessly ornamented
According to Merriam Webster
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