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Microsoft's Azure has switched on a range of media services, including one that makes it possible to conduct text searches of audio and video content. The new Azure Media Services offer encoding and streaming services backed by a content distribution network that should make it possible to deliver video around the world …

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  1. Neil Barnes Silver badge

    This looks remarkably like

    something I saw demonstrated at IBC, maybe ten years ago: a self-indexing content aggregation system that indexed metadata and audio from bulk video stores. I don't recall how good its speech-to-text was, but I believe it read subtitles too if they were present in the video stream, which would have probably been a lot more accurate.

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  2. Caesarius

    I bet the NSA (et al) already have this facility

    Well, they would, wouldn't they.

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  3. Saint Sound

    Google and Microsoft have been working on this for a long time. The trouble is it's only good for keywords. The rest is just garbled nonsense.

    I did see a good demonstration of it as a universal translator though!

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