I didn't see a link in the post to <a href="http://speakertext.com/" rel="nofollow">http://speakertext.com/</a>. I checked it out, and it looks like a really useful app! Best of luck to these guys!
<i>With my alumni discount, I had setup a booth at the Columbia Engineering Job Fair, looking for fresh talent.</i><p>Good idea. Has anyone else here ever recruited for a startup or a small company at a university job fair? How did it go?
>“Your team hasn’t know each other long enough,” he told us––or something like that. But they’d be happy to talk to us again, later, in the fall, assuming we hadn’t self-destructed already.<p>Oh man had that been me, I would properly double my efforts to get the startup to be the next facebook, just to mail PG and tell him he missed the boat...
Is there a technical reason preventing the big guys (youtube/yahoo /vimeo etc.) from developing this kind of thing? I always thought running voice recognition on user submitted videos would require massive infrastructure. How are you guys planning to solve that? Congrats & best of luck with the rest!
Offtopic: I'd like to see an API for SpeakerText where I can point to my own video asset on an Amazon S3 bucket along with an API endpoint that I specify and you would send me a POST with the transcribed text whenever it's finished processing. I'd purchase that service tomorrow.
What a great product! Congratulations, guys!<p>This product makes all of the videos out there indexable by its entire audio content. You could start crawling, processing videos and indexing them right?<p>Is that in your roadmap? To become one of the best video search tools out there?
tl;dr: SpeakerText is their startup, the SpeakerCave is their house or apartment, and no mention is made of it being cave-shaped or made of speakers (bummer).