Searching Television
There's been some buzz lately about the latest Google offering in which you can search for television programs. Google Video indexes the closed-captions sent with many TV shows and will point you to shows based on your search terms. I thought that was pretty cool, and a neat use of content that is already digital and prime for searching. That is, however, until I came across Blinkx.
Blinkx isn't happy simply watching closed captions. It actually analyzes the audio stream and applies speech recognition to it to extract information that is then searchable. They also have a utility that can be installed on your desktop that constantly searches for your favorite search terms. As computers and the Internet continue to be combined with our entertainment devices, what is possible just keeps getting better and better.