Going into this article I thought it would be a site that captures TV audio streams and runs a speech recognition, and how does it handle the computing and potentially SR API costs. But - spoiler - it turns out it captures closed captions provided by TV networks and saves them.
That struck me (a) as an example of something relatively simple that has a huge importance - keeping politicians accountable and governance transparent and (b) an example that accessibility technologies - while hugely important for differently able people - are important for much wider audiences as well.
Snapstream employs similar tech. It's how shows like The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight can quickly and easily find segments where certain words or phrases are used on television.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 18.6 ms ] threadThat struck me (a) as an example of something relatively simple that has a huge importance - keeping politicians accountable and governance transparent and (b) an example that accessibility technologies - while hugely important for differently able people - are important for much wider audiences as well.