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Straight from the horse's mouth
Monday, October 13, 2008
Posted by Arnaud Sahuguet, Product Manager
With Google News, you can read what candidates are saying about a given topic. You can even
compare
what two of them are saying about the same topic. But it's also important to hear candidates deliver their own message themselves, in their own voice.
Today, we're adding another tool to the Google News suite to enable you to find and access political messages straight from the horse's mouth. Using the Google Audio Indexing (
GAudi
) technology already available on Labs, you can now search for and watch political videos right from the
Google News election page
.
Starting today, after reading an article about a topic that matters to you, you can quickly find out what the candidates have to say about it and hear them say it. Just enter the topic you're interested in, or the sequence of words you want to find, and we'll search candidates' YouTube channels to return a set of relevant videos. You can filter the results by channel (
all candidates
,
McCain's campaign
,
Obama's campaign
or
the presidential debates
). When we return a result, we use yellow markers to indicate the exact moments the words you're looking for are uttered. Just hover over the marker to read the transcript of a short audio snippet or click on it to jump to the right moment inside the video. You can also share a given video with your friends (just click on
), in case they don't want to take your word for it. Keep in mind that speech-to-text technology is not perfect yet, and some transcriptions might contain some errors. But we think this tool will serve as a valuable resource as we count down to Election 2008.
Checking for political consistency (or inconsistency) has never been so simple. And as election day nears, keep checking our
election-related projects
.
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