Yet Another Update for Youtube Lovers

Google has recently announced the "automatic caption" facility for YouTube. In official Google Blog they said that, "We've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because I'm deaf. Today, I'm in Washington, D.C. to announce what I consider the most important and exciting milestone yet: machine-generated automatic captions.

Since the original launch of captions in our products, we’ve been happy to see growth in the number of captioned videos on our services, which now number in the hundreds of thousands. This suggests that more and more people are becoming aware of how useful captions can be. As we’ve explained in the past, captions not only help the deaf and hearing impaired, but with machine translation, they also enable people around the world to access video content in any of 51 languages. Captions can also improve search and even enable users to jump to the exact parts of the videos they're looking for.

However, like everything YouTube does, captions face a tremendous challenge of scale. Every minute, 20 hours of video are uploaded. How can we expect every video owner to spend the time and effort necessary to add captions to their videos? Even with all of the captioning support already available on YouTube, the majority of user-generated video content online is still inaccessible to people like me.

To help address this challenge, we've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect (check out the video below for an amusing example), but even when they're off, they can still be helpful—and the technology will continue to improve with time.

In addition to automatic captions, we’re also launching automatic caption timing, or auto-timing, to make it significantly easier to create captions manually. With auto-timing, you no longer need to have special expertise to create your own captions in YouTube. All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and we’ll use Google’s ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video. This should significantly lower the barriers for video owners who want to add captions, but who don’t have the time or resources to create professional caption tracks."


For More information I am posting the videos here.

If you can watch this long video, it will give more insight into the feature.

Lets hope for the best from Google. Enjoy the new features.

Search exactly what you want!!!

1. Explicit Phrase: Let’s say you are looking for content about mobile phones. Instead of just typing mobile phones into the Google search box, you will likely be better off searching explicitly for the phrase. To do this, simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes. Example: “mobile phones”

2. Exclude Words: Let’s say you want to search for content about mobile phones, but you want to exclude any results that contain the term old. To do this, simply use the “-“ sign in front of the word you want to exclude.
Example Search: mobile phones -old

3. Site Specific Search: Often, you want to search a specific website for content that matches a certain phrase. Even if the site doesn’t support a built-in search feature, you can use Google to search the site for your term. Simply use the “site:anysite.com” modifier. Example: “mobile phones” site:www.nokia.com

4. Similar Words and Synonyms: Let’s say you are want to include a word in your search, but want to include results that contain similar words or synonyms. To do this, use the “~” in front of the word. Example: “mobile phones” ~personal

5. Specific Document Types: If you’re looking to find results that are of a specific type, you can use the modifier “filetype:”. For example, you might want to find only PowerPoint presentations related to internet marketing. Example: “mobile phones” filetype:pdf

6. This OR That: By default, when you do a search, Google will include all the terms specified in the search. If you are looking for any one of one or more terms to match, then you can use the OR operator. (Note: The OR has to be capitalized). Example: mobile phones OR laptops

7. Phone Listing: Let’s say someone calls you on your mobile number and you don’t know how it is. If all you have is a phone number, you can look it up on Google using the phonebook feature. Example: phonebook:07543-2456567

8. Addresses. Type in any address into Google, including the city and state and Google will provide a map of the area, as well as the ability to get directions to the location. Example: 223, kolha market, kolkata, india

9. Stock (Ticker Symbol): Just enter a valid ticker symbol as your search term and Google will give you the current financials and a quick thumb-nail chart for the stock. Example: GOOG

10. Calculator: The next time you need to do a quick calculation, instead of bringing up the Calculator applet, you can just type your expression in to Google.
Example: 235*123456

11. Word Definitions: If you need to quickly look up the definition of a word or phrase, simply use the “define:” command. Example: define:augmentation

Witricity

I was watching this video at here and found it really interesting. Posting it here for my own reference. 





Can you imagine the convenience of a wireless chargers for things like your cell phone, your iPod, and digital cameras? 


You would never have to plug in your wireless charger to an electrical socket, because this new wireless charger has a charging system that uses electromagnetic induction to accomplish wireless charging of your devices.

It is basically a concept of creating a magnetic field that runs parallel to the surface of the pad, rather than out the end of the pad. In doing this, it enables delivery of a very uniform output of magnetic force across the pad, and makes it possible to make a receiver coil that is thin in the wireless chargers. 


WiTricity, a portmanteau for "wireless electricity", is a trademark of WiTricity corporation referring to their devices and processes which use a form of wireless energy transfer, the ability to provide electrical energy to remote objects without wires using oscillating magnetic fields.

Learn Java

For long i was trying to learn Java. But lastly, i found that there is no better resource than Sun's java tutorial. They give a complete insight into the course.
The Java Tutorials are practical guides for programmers who want to use the Java programming language to create applications. They include hundreds of complete, working examples, and dozens of lessons. Groups of related lessons are organized into "trails".
It is worth learning java here.
Enjoy Reading! Happy Learning.

Google Voice

Google is always innovative and customer friendly. From a wide variety of creative product to the technology equipped gmail, orkut, youtube or what not. Now it is google voice Google Voice or like Google Number is the latest thing in Google's pocket. Using this you can actually make calls, send voice mails, convert voice to text or can use a single phone number while switching the services.
The technology is available only for US people for now but they say they will soon be launching it to india too. More information about google voice can be obtained here.