Online Newshour - the web site of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer


This is rather unique. The Online Newshour uses voice recognition technology to provide keyword searching of spoken material. For example, I typed "language" and it returned 1 segment -
Language Skills
Learning the languages of Islam.
Category: Asia, Education
Correspondent: Spencer Michels
Date: 01-18-2002
Searching for "English" brought 2 segments -
Vanishing Verbs
Is television news reporting destroying the English language?
Category: Media
Correspondent: Terence Smith
Date: 08-27-2002

Wide as the Water
Author Benson Bobrick examines the significance of translating the Bible from Latin to English.
Category: Religion
Correspondent: Ray Suarez
Date: 07-25-2001
Once you click to view a segment, you're given the option of using either RealPlayer (Icch) or Windows Media (ugh).

And I'm sure there were transcripts are there somewhere....

Posted: Mon - October 13, 2003 at 02:08 PM            

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