YouTube to allow searching videos by audio contained in the video by 2025

Created by InquilineKea on 2015-07-27; known on 2026-01-16

• InquilineKea estimated 55% on 2015-07-27
• JoshuaZ estimated 60% on 2015-07-27
• David estimated 55% on 2015-07-28
• espore estimated 10% on 2015-08-02
• qap estimated 60% on 2015-08-10
• themusicgod1 estimated 87% on 2016-04-15
• Peteris estimated 85% and said “They already offer subtitles, audio search is just a decision. If YouTube doesn’t dramatically changed their operational model, it is likely to happen.” on 2016-05-06
• two2thehead estimated 99% and said “See http://predictionbook.com/predictions/65689 for my reasoning. I am assuming this to mean auto captioning technology. Note that it doesn’t have to be perfect. Just good enough. Which is why this is 99 vs linked prediction being 95.” on 2016-05-14
• davatk estimated 80% on 2018-04-26
• JoshuaZ estimated 74% on 2020-06-12