Simon Willison’s Weblog

1st June 2008 - Link Blog

Video speech matching on TheyWorkForYou.com. Launched this morning at BarCamp London by Matthew Somerville—TheyWorkForYou now has video from BBC Parliament but they need your help matching it exactly to their transcripts from Hansard. Neat example of a game that helps process large amounts of data.

Posted 1st June 2008 at 1:52 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 1st June 2008.

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