Google 411 Harvests Speech Data for Video Search
You’ve got to love Google’s ability to create clever synergies in its myriad of seemingly unrelated products. This time, Google VP Marissa Mayer reveals why the ad-free Google 411 doesn’t need a revenue stream: it’s a front to harvest speech recognition data for video search. By extension, speech recognition can be used for video ad contextualization. “A breakthrough is likely in the next one to two years,” says Mayer
Bye bye, Blinx AdHoc. We hardly knew you.
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