Government Meetings Made Searchable

This is not an officially supported Google product, though support will be provided on a best-effort basis.

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Introduction

This is project to make the contents of public meetings searchable and discoverable. This repo is a series of utilities and containers you can use to transcode, transcribe, and publish content from videos of public meetings and hearings.

app-engine-front-end

This is a Google App Engine app that provides a front end to the project.

app-engine-utility-service

This is a Google App Engine app that facilitates interaction with the Google Cloud SQL database, and provides common utilities for back end services.

in-video-search

This is a Google App Engine Flex app that provides a wrapper and proxy for requests to an Elastic Search instance. This service handles searches for materials in a particular meeting.

archive-video-search

This is a Google App Engine Flex app that provides a wrapper and proxy for requests to and responses from an Elastic Search instance. This service handles searches for materials across all meetings in an index.

transcode-video-to-audio

This is a container that transcodes a video file to an audio file that is compatible with the Google Speech API.

create-word-list

This is a container that creates a list of words from the Google Speech API responses that will be used for creating a word cloud.

generate-wordcloud

This is a container that creates a word cloud image in PNG format from a list of words stored on Google Cloud Storage.

index-meeting

This is a container that parses Google Speech API responses and writes the contents to an Elastic Search index in a batch process.

publish-pdf-transcript

This is a container that parses Google Speech API responses and produces a human readable PDF transcript.