Speech Technology Plays Major Role in New Search Engine

From an InternetNews.com article published yesterday:

"Search technology provider Blinkx is madly inking television content deals, signaling a strategy to become the preferred front end for major media companies.

Blinkx's Chandratillake said his company takes a different approach to video search by not only indexing meta information about video content but also parsing the content, so that users can go directly to a relevant portion of the video.

Context Clustering Technology indexes content on the fly using automatic transcription technology, which transliterates content straight from the cable box or from video already stored on the Web. It then brings phonetic matching speech recognition technology to bear on it, identifying the main ideas in segments. He said this method provides better results than relying on closed captioning transcripts, as Google and Yahoo do."

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