This is what I was wondering (re: Nukemarine). I was under the impression that speech-to-text/audio mining was still in its infancy. The most recent examples I can find are here: http://www.beet.tv/2008/07/youtube-has-voi.html - What's the current status w/ those search engines like Blinkx/EverythingZing, I wonder.
More on podcastle: http://www.streetsmartlanguagelearning.c...-with.html
http://staff.aist.go.jp/m.goto/PAPER/INT...07goto.pdf
Can't find anything about standalone software or adding your own audio.
Relying on 'social correction' to offset the 'beta' aspect of the tech (thus Podcastle is in a state of 'permanent beta' according to the .pdf) is interesting and probably the best we can have for a long while.
It has a web crawler, not sure how that works or whether users can directly add audio, and what the deal is with copyright. I also wonder what software they're using and whether it's available elsewhere.
Still, I can totally see this getting expanded soon. Googling revealed a cpl venture/startup language-learning groups are already excited about Podcastle, maybe they'll try to integrate something similar to smart.fm or something. That would take care of the social correction aspect, though we'd lose out on the customizable/copyright stuff again...
More on podcastle: http://www.streetsmartlanguagelearning.c...-with.html
http://staff.aist.go.jp/m.goto/PAPER/INT...07goto.pdf
Can't find anything about standalone software or adding your own audio.
Relying on 'social correction' to offset the 'beta' aspect of the tech (thus Podcastle is in a state of 'permanent beta' according to the .pdf) is interesting and probably the best we can have for a long while.
It has a web crawler, not sure how that works or whether users can directly add audio, and what the deal is with copyright. I also wonder what software they're using and whether it's available elsewhere.
Still, I can totally see this getting expanded soon. Googling revealed a cpl venture/startup language-learning groups are already excited about Podcastle, maybe they'll try to integrate something similar to smart.fm or something. That would take care of the social correction aspect, though we'd lose out on the customizable/copyright stuff again...
Edited: 2009-09-19, 10:12 am