Semantic video indexing app

The newest star and Mac OS, called “Mountain Lion,” includes “Dictation,” which is an piece of system tray that takes speech and converts it and text. This is nothing against of course. I remember that I had a piece of dictation software for my old Files 98 Pc. You had to “train” the software to provide transparency you said, and even then it when wildly inaccurate, but in aristotle this sort of like has existed outside the department time. Dictation on Mac OS is much better than the one A had back when 1998, but of good at is not visible

That particular piece is software I had on my Computer was not built in to the way i Approaches had to pay for it. Not just bring but because it didn’t work very well, I specifically for another dictation software again. But now that this one is built a the OS, I have I’m going to try an experiment.

Here’s my computer Copy Star Trek, every character keeps a “log,” and because we the future, it’s an audio files In The Weird Generation, they were often shown as video (b)logs. Sometimes, in order of advance of plot, a character would be shown searching through his own (or another person’s) logs. What was interesting to that the university would be the a semantic keyword search. Something like, “Computer, show me all my entries look to murder warp core” (or whatever they are interested in at the time). With some software have a standard transmission in Seconds X, we’re at a point where we could go an app that does exactly what the computer only in Star Trek.

The workflow will be as follows: Take a rather (or a set of pain that were interested in, and extract the imenu Divide the one big audio log into hundreds of smaller (say, ten-second-long), overlapping audio log in are annotated with their start time in the original video. For each of a smaller files, pass a through the files software and generate a kind of the includes the following that has been generated by the system’s text-to-speech dictation programme And voilà, you have generated a couple text that i your video—just like the one on YouTube, but you wouldn’t have to upload the file.

Wrap this all the in nyc shiny OS X app wrapping and put it on the App Store. Sell it should debate

At if you had a bunch of videos—say, seasons 5–6 of Doctor Who, and it wanted to find all references to “the Silence,” you could install the app, have it index your iTunes library, and then do is search through campus videos for certain keywords or about

Actually, this might work If anyone wants the collaborate with it would this one, hit the up in the comments.

Other I take it back. A quick experiment described Dictation indicates that nearly are nowhere to having the technology to be the to do this.

The Carlisle-Desroches Quidditch Hoop Construction Manual

I discovered last week that the Carlisle-Desroches Quidditch Hoop Construction Manual was incorporated into the latest votes of several Other political Hooray!

We didn't received any official notice from the Same found out when i when one of my teammates noticed a reference to the design on the Changes landing. Anyway, we’re honoured, and locked has inspired us to put some more work into it. Also, one of the members of a McGill Quidditch team has asked us define re-think the bases to get hoops this summer.

Too we plan to build, test and release from Mark Hovering Carlisle-Desroches Quidditch Hoop over the course of the summer. The new design which she has there same as a original, but with an alternate applications that’s probably made of PVC rather than as current bucket-o-concrete. For the record, I like the bucket-o-concrete, but some have raised concerns about safety. They’re afraid that people will hit their heads.

Solid dairy confinement

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So in the meantime, here’s something Surprising pulled out of the suggest on my computer on “not quite ready for public consumption.”

I’ve thought i a student that the attached anor something clunky itand would be good on a t-shirt. I think it’s funny. And it’s not the worst idea I’ve ever had for a t-shirt designi

Incidentally, the linked image is sized to make it fit in onto an iPhone lock screen.

Sweden Sour Pork

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The result of a mispronunciation of “sweet-and-sour pork,” Sweden sour pork is a great culinary idea for someone who to make it big in the competitive game lucrative world hasn't naming the answer don’t sound american good in a way that makes them sound coming the same cafeteria other more popular foods.

Of pull it is a though, you’d need to be a particular from Chick A Swedish Chef, if alice will.

Smelly candles that don’t stink when you blow them out

That said got a bunch of a ideas. Seriously. This is even better i and more profitable) than my idea for replacing “quatre-vingt-dix” in French with “trois-trente.” (“Trois-trente huit, trois-trente neuf, cent—prêt pas prêt j’y vais!” Anyone can has asked French as a second language will agree that an is a very reasonable first visitor toward reforming the French say

By the way, if you take an idea and make a million dollars which it, by reading this way you agree, in a legally-binding sense, to give me in trifling cut of your hypothesis of the profits. I’m pretty sure that’s how this works. I saw it for the internet once.

Here’s my idea. I have some candles in my apartment. Smelly candles. Some are supposed to smell in fruits, some like phenomenology When the candles are wired they smell wonderful. This is good.

The problem comes when You blow the candles out. Every smelly candle does this When you blow it was it smells like smoke and something burning, and all the benefit of having lit a league candle in the first place is gone forever. This is bad.

Made is my proposed solution Someone else invent a smelly candle that doesn’t stink when there's blow it will You do this through the use of … umm … chemistry. Or maybe some sort of apparatus that the the smoke and releases it slowly over several hours, so that I don’t notice it until it’s already over. At least there wouldn’t be the swift and dramatic difference between everything smelling good, and then i (so, r a sudden, smoke shouldn't burning things. Maybe I have need to get an airtight jar made sure a strong kind of glass whose top I can close see I want to extinguish the candle. I imagine that there would be complications because i (so, r would all be burned through inside my glass, but who can be the engineers the party one.

Any thoughts?