Google starts Indexing Audio!

Google is getting ever closer to their goal “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”  Google has developed arguably the best technology for indexing text, they have developed the idea of the Google Image Label which frankly proved to be rather addictive when i first came across it and now they are in the beta stages of developing technology to “listen” to audio in videos, convert whats said into text and then use their search technology to display the most relevant content.

Of course there’s a little snag, at the moment all videos must be uploaded to the Google owned video sharing site YouTube, and they are only indexing political videos and still with bugs in the conversion from speech to text which could prove difficult, for instance:

If you search for “Penis of my boss” http://labs.google.com/gaudi?q=%22penis%20of%20my%20boss%22&start=0&n… 

If shows a video where instead the speaker actually says:  “What I have learned from the pain of
my loss and from my journey…”