Another reason to narrate your video - YouTube Speech Recognition
As reported in the Official Google Blog yesterday, “With the help of our speech recognition technologies, videos from YouTube’s Politicians channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed”.
What does this mean for Video SEO?
I have seen a few blog posts on how to “create your own how-to videos” that recommend adding at least a soundtrack to your video if you’re shy to narrate it.
Well, now there is another reason that will make you want to add the speech to your video. Sooner or later, the YouTube speech recognition spider will start going further than Politician channels. Your videos are next and guess what? The text that will be recognized inside your video will for sure benefit your rankings provided of course that the speech inside is relevant to the subject that you’re optimising for.
Google is slowly building an alternative to old-fashioned text-based website indexing. Annotations are added, speech-to-text recognition is coming anytime soon. What’s next?
Update 18 Sept 2008: As predicted, couple of days back Google announced audio search service called GAudi based on the speech recognition technologies. There is a good discussion point about this new service at ReelSEO.
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