Google brings Speech Recognition to Video Search, Selectively Adding GMail Contacts now possible
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Google seems to be slowly rolling out new features into some of their services. Google, which originally began as a search engine, has now become a giant on the interwebs, trying its hand at every possible area. As of today, the giant has a 70% Market Share in the total search queries from the US.
Google has now started indexing a select few of its videos hosted Google Videos using Speech Recognition Technology. This technology enables Google to transcribe the speech in the videos to text so that Google can Index it. Currently, only videos from the official politician channels are supported. Currently, a user has to rely only on the Video title, description of the video or the tags. The ‘related videos’ too are based on these matches only. Now, with the technology, whenever any user makes a search, Google looks up the word in its big book of indexes and returns the videos which have these words in them. As an added benefit, Google adds bubbles in the timeline along with the text that is being spoken.Â
Although it is not the first, Google certainly is heading in the right direction. After Youtube was bought by Google back in 2006, it is arguably the leader when it comes to online videos too. It would be interesting to see how helpful this technology turns out to be.
On the other hand, we just notices this change in the Contacts of Gmail today. By default, Gmail used to add everyone you had a conversation with, as a contact. Thus, if you receive 50 new emails each day from different people, they would all be added as contacts. Not anymore.
Google has now  added the above option at our convenience. Now, only if the sender/recepient, whom you’re having a conversation with, frequently sends your emails or receives emails from you, only then he’ll be added automatically to contacts.
A welcome change, I must say. But when is GMail going to get a makeover? The interface has been the same(almost) ever since 2004. With Apple’s MobileMe getting all the attention lately, it’s high time Google did something to Gmail.Â
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