We’ve had web-translation for yonks. But given that podcasting is often an inefficient way to both take in and disseminate information I’d like to be able to go to a site and feed in a relevant audio or audio-visual file - or point the site to a YouTube video for instance and get a first draft of a transcript.  (I know it would have some errors, but they’d be amusing in any event - nothing like throwing a bit of randomness into the mix).

I thought such a service ought to exist.  Perhaps it does, in which case please let me and other Troppodillians know in comments. If not, I know you’re listening, Larry, Sergey, Steve, and Bill (well actually I know Bill’s not listening), so lets see it - quick smart.

And in case you’re interested, I wanted to get transcriptions of this video (HT Joshua Gans) and this podcast so I could blog about them.  Both pretty interesting to me anyway.