Today I Issue A Challenge To YouTube/Google That Will Be Largely Ignored
Hey Speech-Heads, By now, everybody knows about Google expanding its robo-transcription function to include every video on YouTube. In fact, you may have read about it in a recent story in Speech Technology. Well, that’s all fine and good. We here at SpeechTech Blog love transcription as much as the next guy. But every video? [...]
www.donthaveameltdown.com
Today, we at Speech Tech Blog came across a strange and frightening video on YouTube. It appears to be security tape footage of a very highly strung businessman having a meltdown in a hotel lobby. He yells, punches walls, throws things, has a fit, is tackled by security. At the end of the video, a [...]
What Are You Up To Google????
Last week, Google implemented optional audio previews for YouTube comments that allow users to listen to comments before posting them. What made this move somewhat buzzworthy was that it came shortly after Randall Munroe’s popular webcomic XKCD suggested that Google add audio preview for all comments–so that people might realize how inane the majority of [...]