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Beet.tv has Steve Grove, the head honcho for news and politics at YouTube, discuss the internet video giant’s new speech-to-text functionality.  Just like we do at the bottom of our posts and YouTubers do when they upload videos, content is tagged to provide a shortlist of terms (called metadata) that search engines will see first.  Match the combo of search terms with the tag combo and what you’re looking for is likely to be the first result returned in Google.

With YouTube’s new technology, however, a computer is able to analyze the entire text of a video - like a political speech -  and submit all of it as metadata, making any portion of a speech highly searchable through their YouChoose site.

Adobe is also said to be working on the same technology for Flash.  Put it all together and you’ll be able to pinpoint any phrase in almost any video anywhere on the net.  Daaamn.