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Heya, I'm working on creating a metadata search engine (using transcripts) for YouTube, Spotify, etc. Basically any video/audio content.

Everyone always complains about how bad multimedia search tools are, so this is something that can address that. Some people tried to do stuff like this back in 2006 (Blinkx) but never made it very far. This takes those attempts a step further than basic transcript searching, and uses machine learning to extract topics, entities, and keywords that can be used to filter on the data sets - as well as show "gists" of the content in any piece of media.

It's very much a work in progress. Currently it doesn't have a mobile layout, it's buggy, and it's quite - uh - "overwhelming", but hopefully someone can see the utility of it.



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