MIT video lectures can be searched by audio content

MIT develops lecture search engine to aid students

With a number of video lectures becoming available through MIT’s Open Course Ware program, this new search engine allows people to search for any spoken word inside these lectures! Try it — just trying searching in the textbox, don’t worry if it says “real player” must be installed.

Also see the article in Tech Review describing how it is novel/different than other video search engines on the Internet

Searching Video Lectures

A tool from MIT finds keywords so that students can efficiently review lectures.