SLAWSKI, Bill. Indexing Sound Files on Search Engines that Can’t Hear Them. Creative Flow, May 27th, 2004. URL: http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/125
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"What do you do if most of the content your company creates is in audio or video format, and you want to include it on the web, and make it so that people can find it? And the content is news, which relies upon timely delivery?
In the case of National Public Radio (NPR), the answer was to put the audio files online, and also offer transcriptions of them. Since NPR started doing that a few weeks ago, they’ve noticed a substantial increase in traffic to their site for topical subjects from the search engines.
One of the things I like about this practice is that people with hearing disabilities are now able to access stories that they couldn’t hear on the radio. What a great result.
The transcription is presently done by speech recognition technology to get stories online very quickly after they are broadcast on the radio. It’s likely that humans will take over from the software presently used, which sometimes garbles results.
If at some point, the search engines become capable of indexing audio, I hope that sites providing transcripts continue to do so. It’s great to see such a great improvement in accessibility, even if it is done inadvertently."
Dublin Core Metadata:Title: Indexing Sound Files on Search Engines that Can’t Hear Them
Creator: Bill SLAWSKI
Subject: Audio file / audio format / video format / indexing audio / National public radio / recognition / speech recognition.
Description: "What do you do if most of the content your company creates is in audio or video format, and you want to include it on the web, and make it so that people can find it? And the content is news, which relies upon timely delivery?"
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Date: 2004/05/27
Type: Article
Identifier: http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/125
Source: Creative Flow
Language: En
Coverage: World
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