This could be really good news for podcasters who are currently paying for transcription services.

Now if Google would just offer audio indexing as a web service, that would be rad.

I bet you THIS is why GOOG-411 was launched. I was waiting for an announcement like this.

That's exactly why.

"... So 1-800-GOOG-411 is about that: Getting a bunch of different speech samples so that when you call up or we're trying to get the voice out of video, we can do it with high accuracy."

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis...

There goes the need for my software to read subtitles on videos!

I'm curious what TechCrunch's article provides beyond what came out in the standard press release on the Google Blog. (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-audio-indexing...)

Now to make this multi-language :)