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January 4, 2007 7:54 AM

Podzinger now lets you search through spoken words on YouTube.Podzinger has long done speech recognition-based searches of podcasts, including neat features like excerpting relevant bits of the podcast, but the YouTube search is new, and still in its infancy. Podzinger comes from BBN, one of the creators of the internet and email, and which was the setting for one of the more humorous incidents in AI history [scroll down to "an accidental conversation"].
posted by blahblahblah (7 comments total)

whoa, slow down a second. i just did a search (of an admittedly obscene word) under podzinger's youtube section... and from what i can tell, its searching the episode description (submitted by the user, separately), not the actual spoken content of the video.
posted by phaedon at 8:01 AM on January 4, 2007

phaedon-- it's doing both. For some results it'll just be the description. For other you'll see a timestamp and the words highlighted from the transcription.
posted by neustile at 8:07 AM on January 4, 2007

boom. you're right.
posted by phaedon at 8:18 AM on January 4, 2007

That's great.

Does anyone know if there is an offline version of this? Anything that can index a directory of wav files?
posted by empath at 8:38 AM on January 4, 2007

Podzinger Rejects Jesus, and other Podzinger discussions at Language Log.

I find the idea of this technology exciting, but there's a hell of a lot of work yet to be done.
posted by cortex at 8:57 AM on January 4, 2007

as for now useless
posted by zouhair at 3:12 PM on January 4, 2007

For some reason when I read 'Podzinger' it made me think of some kind of alien pope who steals peoples' bodies.
posted by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 4:44 AM on January 5, 2007