While it seems there is no end to the amount of content that has found its way to the Web, there’s also a world of content that’s locked away. Media conglomerates, television networks, and news Web sites have a vast array of video and audio content that sits collecting digital dust, inaccessible to the millions of Internet users who peruse their respective Web sites daily.

We’ve partnered with some of the Web’s most popular video blogs, including Rocketboom, commandN and this week, Hak.5, to help their users access the increasing number of archived episodes. Seeing speech-to-text search work for this new breed of popular content providers in the vlogosphere should give special notice to those larger online publishers—and hundreds of major network affiliate sites across the Web—with millions of video and audio clips and little to no way of making the content within actually searchable.

Just imagine you catch the last few seconds of a segment on the 11 o’clock news. Assuming it’s not continuing coverage, the story gets cast into the great void of old content that is either placed online, or as is the case with many affiliates, sits in storage at the TV station. The latter scenario recently played itself out for us, as our president, Alex Laats, was interviewed by the local Boston FOX affiliate, FOX 25, for a great story on viral video. The station doesn’t make any of its videos available online, so we aren’t able to direct people who may be interested in viewing the piece to find it. But, if FOX did, speech-to-text search would enable a friend of Alex (and who isn’t?) to go to the Fox 25 site, type in his name, and immediately find him in the segment.

As more networks and publishers look to monetize their ever-growing archive of rich audio and video content, we imagine that speech-to-text will play an important role, just as it’s already playing out with our new friends at Rocketboom, commandN and Hak.5.