Here’s an interesting game project by Nick Diakopoulos, Kurt Luther, and Irfan Essa of the Georgia Institute of Technology. AudioPuzzler involves listening to snippets of dialogue drawn from a selection of short videos, then accurately transcribing and re-ordering the contents to make cogent sentences. Once you’ve completed a puzzle, you get to watch the video.

It’s sort of like Typing of the Dead, but with a useful purpose - Diakopoulos and co are looking into ways of creating high accuracy video transcriptions, which don’t rely on automatic methods. Perhaps a game like AudioPuzzler could be used to create close-captioned videos without requiring lots of staff and financial resources.

Have a go anyway - it’s quite unusual.

(Via WaterCoolerGames)

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