Searching Streamed Media

Intriguing. Compaq is offering a search engine for spoken streamed media at http://speechbot.research.compaq.com/ . You can search for words in their entire database, or you can restrict your search to one of several shows, including Motley Fool, Fresh Air, and Talk of the Nation. You can even search for phrases, though the search engine FAQ says "The 'transcript' that is output by the speech recognition software (and shown in small extracts on the Results and Details pages) rarely matches what was spoken exactly, and often often [sic] does not read very well." About 2,500 hours of programming is indexed here. Searching The Motley Fool for Motorola found three results, searching Car Talk for filter found two results, and searching Talk of the Nation for lander found 3 results. Results give the date, a link by which you may play the clip, a paragraph that gives you context of the found search term.

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