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Microsoft Research make breakthrough in audio speech recognition (technet.com)
2012 Jun 22, 2:33MAVIS indexes audio and video so you can do text search over the contents. For example search for ‘metro’ in all of the BUILD conference talks.
Kickstarter's exciting 24 hours
2012 Feb 10, 8:51“Two million-dollar projects, a major political speech involving Kickstarter, an amazing band launching a project for a comeback 20 years in the making… the list goes on. Here’s a minute-by-minute breakdown of the day’s events.”
Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free (vice.com)
2012 Jan 17, 9:37There’s weird stuff you’d think is public domain but isn’t including Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech. FTA: ”If you want to watch the whole thing, legally, you’ll need to get the $20 DVD.
That’s because the King estate, and, as of 2009, the British music publishing conglomerate EMI Publishing, owns the copyright of the speech and its recorded performance.”
A true American Patriot recites Bill Pullman’s Independence Day speech around New York City | Great Job, Internet! | The A.V. Club
2011 Jul 6, 7:28"Over this past Fourth Of July weekend, we neglected to note that it was the 15th anniversary of Roland Emmerich’s 1996 blockbuster Independence Day. New York comedian Sean Kleier remembered, and decided to make his own tribute, going to various locations around New York City—Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, the subway, and inside a Victoria’s Secret—reciting Bill Pullman’s rousing speech before the movie's final battle sequence, megaphone and all."Seth Meyers & Barack Obama at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
2011 May 1, 7:51"The hilarious speeches by Seth Meyers and Barack Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Seth and Obama really let Trump have it in their speechs. Trump’s reaction in the audience is priceless."Speech Recognition with Javascript; speechapi.com
2010 May 17, 5:05"With speechapi.com's javascript API, it is possible to build interesting speech-web mashups that include both speech-to-text as well as text-to-speech."Official Google Blog: Automatic captions in YouTube
2009 Nov 20, 2:31YouTube now does automatic captioning in some cases and automatic timing in all cases. Automatic timing lets you upload a transcript with a video and YouTube will do speech to text and figure out when the various parts of the transcript need to be displayed.Setting Up AWStats
2009 Jun 26, 5:44A person with nearlyfreespeech.net hosting their web content recalls how they setup awstatsLDC Catalog - Web 1T 5-gram Version 1
2009 Mar 16, 4:22"This data set, contributed by Google Inc., contains English word n-grams and their observed frequency counts. The length of the n-grams ranges from unigrams (single words) to five-grams. We expect this data will be useful for statistical language modeling, e.g., for machine translation or speech recognition, as well as for other uses." 6 DVDs for only $150 with licensing restri... ok nm.DeleteThis.net on NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Update
2008 Mar 23, 12:38The move of my website to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET is mostly complete except for a few server side things not working yet: RandomGrammar and parts of Vizicious. I'm still very happy with the NearlyFreeSpeech.NET hosting and so far I've only spent a few cents on hosting. At this rate I'll only spend a few dollars a year.
I've moved all my pages to use the same CSS and hooked it up with cookies to my Kuler color options so now changes to the color theme will stick and apply to all my pages. I haven't figured out the caching for this yet so you may have to refresh to see changes to color applied.
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET FAQ
2008 Mar 17, 5:54NearlyFreeSpeech's FAQ about what their webhosting includes.Now using NearlyFreeSpeech.NET to host deletethis.net
2008 Mar 17, 1:25I've switched from using my own home web server of which one of the harddrives died, to using NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, an actual real live web hosting service. So far I'm very happy with them and they give me almost exactly what I had on my own home server: ssh access, vim, php, java, etc. etc. The only notable things they don't do are (1) cron jobs which I use currently and (2) SSL which I don't use currently. I can replace my cron job usage and I suppose I'll have to reevaluate my web hosting if I ever need SSL. At the moment many of the server side things like Vizicious will be unavailable. I'll work on getting those working again at some point.
Religious Speech Sensor
2007 Feb 2, 2:41This tool searches text for biblical quotes or text suspected to be inspired by biblical quotes. That's sensor not censor.Vacation Starts
2003 Mar 23, 4:39My finals are finished and I'm on vacation! Yay! The past two weeks have been killer. I got very little sleep during dead week with various speeches and projects due. But that's all over with now. Presently, I'm enjoying sitting and doing nothing. Perhaps I'll even work on my long neglected tetris game. Yay again!
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