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[–] WhiteRonin 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Excellent idea!

Not your program but to come here for getting ideas on what to do!

This could have started out with a giant database of speaches that are already in text format. Throw a search library at and bingo.

The next step is to find videos to match the speaches for people who are on tape.

Then to get fancy for speaches that are not on tape find a library that either converts text to speach.

Storage? Text can be done even on DO droplet or a cheap Amazon account. Going Amazon would allow you to scale up.

I've had ideas over the years that sat format because I did what you did ... Nothing much on the project.

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[–] jsprogrammer [S] 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

One issue is getting the text of the speeches. Do you know of a good source (I don't, but haven't really looked). Due to the approaching election, I have been feeling that the primary interest would be in the most recent, real-time information.

I don't think the database can be built completely automatically. I think it will need to be built collaboratively by users. I want anyone to be able to contribute (though, there are concerns with data quality/integrity that need to be addressed).

I'd love to hear your ideas.

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[–] WhiteRonin ago 

I agree in the crowd source concept but the crowd needs a place to take their collective dump ;-)