Google has released a YouTube video search gadget for US Presidential Elections that lets you search within the speech of the videos using Speech-To -Text Recognition Technology. This is a huge step from Google depicting how the future search engines would look alike. They will be capable of searching non-text forms like Videos, TV clips, Audio files besides the traditional text search.

Some intelligent guys at Google have built a gadget for your iGoogle Homepage which lets you search videos related to US Presidential elections which uses not only the title and description of videos but even the spoken content within the video to find the relevant video. You can add this gadget to your iGoogle page here.

When you perform a search, it highlights those points in video time-line that contains terms entered in search box.

This gadget currently searches only a small set of political videos but that gives a peep into how the future search engines would work. The speech recognition job is done within few hours of uploading video to that particular channel and owner of the video can control if the video should appear in search results or not.

For those of you who don’t like iGoogle can access this speech-to-text search via url: http://speech.clients.google.com/elections2008videosearch/gadget