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Results of early testing, which Google published in a blog article, indicates audio search is harder to accomplish than it might sound.
Details of these tests are shared in an article penned by Tim Olson, SVP of digital strategic partnerships at KQED.
Google is partnering with KQED in a joint effort to make audio more findable.
With the help of KUNGFU.AI, an AI services provider, Google and KQED ran tests to determine how to transcribe audio in a way that’s fast and error-free.
Here’s what they discovered.
The Difficulties of Audio Search
The greatest obstacle to making audio search a possibility is the fact that audio must be converted to text before it can be searched and sorted.