The New York times has made the 2/22/08 democratic debate between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama available as an interactive speech to text webtool. Making this tool available is helpful to voters looking to analyze the debate. FactCheck.org provides more useful analysis of the statements made by both candidates. The text to speech tool is interesting in and of itself. A similar application is MIT’s Lecture Browser which allows you to search and locate any of MIT’s online lectures that contain a search term. You may then drill down to the exact moment that your search term is referenced. You can follow each video lecture while a cursor iterates through the text of the lecture. The remarkable thing is that the text-file is generated electronically. Remarkable given the quantity of jargon and the range of accents and inflections with which to contend. The lecture browser doesn’t appear to to be supported in Firefox.
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Obama and Clinton debate
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