The president of MSNBC, Charles Tillinghast, discusses new technology with Beet.tv which automatically generates transcripts from video footage and then pulls meta tags from those transcripts. It looks like they are using technology from Nexidia to process the footage and generate the tags.

Making the generation of meta tags a nearly effortless task brings us one step closer to the fluid integration of content. Web tools like Apture and Zemanta could certainly benefit from this streamlining of the tagging process.

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