Originally published February 12 2006
BBN Technologies debuts podcast search engine
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The PodZinger client adds several thousands of podcasts per week and allows users to listen to relevant sections of the search results by clicking on a specific word. PodZinger uses speech recognition research from BBN Technologies.
Users may then listen to relevant sections of the search results by clicking on a specific word within the result for audio playback of that section.
The PodZinger client scours the Web on a daily basis, adding several thousand podcasts per week as they become available.
PodZinger uses speech-to-text technology to create a text index of audio, enabling users to locate content from anywhere within a podcast and jump directly to the point where that keyword is spoken.
This enables users to search audio by keyword, in the same way they currently find words using text search engines.
The PodZinger site allows users to subscribe to podcasts and download or listen to them.
Many podcasters have already submitted their podcasts to PodZinger for indexing, and have also placed the PodZinger search box on their sites for easy searching by their users.
As more content becomes available via podcasts, particularly through use of RSS feeds, there is an increasing need for effective audio search technology.
"Relevant and content-rich podcast search is now a reality," said Alex Laats, president, Delta Division, BBN Technologies."
At PodZinger, we've used three decades of speech recognition research and development to enable users to search multimedia content as easily as they search text.
PodZinger delivers both visual and audio cues for users to gauge relevance in seconds, eliminating the need to listen to an entire segment to find the right nugget of information."
PodZinger is the culmination of 30 years of speech recognition research from BBN Technologies, designed to transform multimedia content into searchable words.
BBN is known for the development of ARPANET and continues work in Internet and networking technologies through development of advanced protocols and quantum communications.
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