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Buzz Watch: YouTube Adds Speech-to-Text Functionality

Authored by Jay Baage on July 31, 2008 - 6:58am.

Beet.tv has interviewed Steve Grove, head of news and politics at YouTube, about a neat new feature which translates speech to text in the videos uploaded to the site. That way, users can search and find that content of the videos easier and not be confined to just the tags or the titles. I also noticed that Grove mentioned that YouTube now gets 13 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute! It's much more than just a few months ago when YouTube's Brent Hurley told me in an interview that they got 10 hours of video uploaded every minute.
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