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Google adds automatic captions to YouTube

Google, in a significant development for the deaf, announced on Thursday it was adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube.

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Review: Warming up to photo-sharing app Instagram

(AP) -- I was skeptical, even horrified, when I first heard about the photo-sharing craze Instagram more than a year ago. As a journalist trained to reject alterations in words and pictures, I didn't get ...

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created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers revolutionize closed captioning

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since closed video captioning was developed in the 1970s, it hasn't changed much. The words spoken by the characters or narrators scroll along at the bottom of the screen, enabling hearing ...

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created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Smart listeners and smooth talkers

Human-like performance in speech technology could be just around the corner, thanks to a new research project that links three UK universities.

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created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Photos from stolen laptop lead to man's arrest

(AP) -- When he couldn't get help from police, Joshua Kaufman went online and used Twitter and a blog to help track down his stolen laptop.

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created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Technology rarely realizes its potential to help disabled

Living in Silicon Valley, it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of technological change. Unfortunately, it's also easy to overlook those who may be left behind.

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created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Google jumps into location check-in game

Google on Tuesday began letting smartphone users check into spots on the go as the Internet star jumped into the hot location-based services arena with Facebook, Foursquare and Gowalla.

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created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google's 'search czar' in touch with world's curiosity

Like few other people on the planet, Google's Ben Gomes knows what interests the world.

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created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Research aims to improve speech recognition software

Anyone who has used an automated airline reservation system has experienced the promise - and the frustration - inherent in today's automatic speech recognition technology. When it works, the computer "understands" that you ...

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created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Smart computer learns from video

Swiss researchers have written a computer programme that is able to analyse temporal and spatial patterns of moving objects, and on top of that is capable of learning. This would be a significant aid in traffic ...

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created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NEC Develops Video Content Identification Technology that Detects Illegal Copies in a Matter of Seconds

NEC Corporation announced today the development of a video content identification technology that detects illegal copies of video content uploaded to the Internet in a matter of seconds.

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created May 07, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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