Trying to search videos without access to the spoken text is like trying to search for a book that mentions Roman emperor Nero by looking through book reviews.
Using Microsoft APIs for Speech and Bing, the text is spoken by the phone running Windows Phone 7.
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Audio books and computer programs that can turn written text into spoken words and vice versa can keep their minds stimulated and vocabulary growing.
That could mean websites will be required to include spoken descriptions of photos and text boxes for the blind, as well as captions and transcriptions of multimedia features for the deaf, said Jared Smith, associate director of WebAIM, a nonprofit group that trains and evaluates companies on Web accessibility.
Blinkx software "listens to" and "watches" the video, then inserts text overlay ads based on the spoken words and to some extent, the images in the clip.
He said many of the three countries' concerns had been taken on board and also noted that the UN Secretary General had spoken "relatively positively" about the new text.
For one thing, Ibsen's text ran to about 40, 000 spoken words.
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They then built a lightweight piece of software which allows users to input any text and then adjust to have it spoken in various moods, from happy to frightened to angry.
Android has an advantage in that, in the newest version of its operating system, it displays the dictated text almost in real time, lagging just slightly behind your spoken words.
The framework extracts meaning from the driver's spoken words, enabling in-car systems to create calendar appointments, dictate email or text messages, set complex navigation destinations, and even perform general Internet searches.
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