From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Dec 16 1999 - 15:20:56 MST
hal@finney.org writes:
> I suspect this is using the closed caption subtitles to look for keywords,
> not doing any kind of automated voice-to-text conversion. Using closed
> captions would be much, much easier, and this doesn't exactly look like
> a high-budget operation. If so it doesn't have much relevance to the
> spy agencies and their Echelon program.
Sorry, should be doing more factchecking next time. I know of a
software product, however, which does make automatic transcripts of
audio streams using speaker-independant speech recognition, albeit
perhaps not in realtime.
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