Here you can read a thought provoking article about the need for more transcription in our increasingly media-laden world. Mike Bergelson of Cisco points out the productivity boons made possible through integrated transcription of conferences, lectures and videos.
With the amount of audio and video available on the Internet, in particular, there certainly exists a lode of text waiting to be made available to search engines, to be made more accessible to all and to be made more useful. It will be interesting to see who unlocks this resource and how they do it.
