[Indic-computing-users] NEWS: Did I hear correctly: "An audio search engine"?

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

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   Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 04:03:44 -0000
   From: "kwang_poon <kwa...@ya...>" <kwa...@ya...>
Subject: Did I hear correctly: "An audio search engine"?

The power of voice

By Jon Udell
December 13, 2002

CHEAP STORAGE MAKES it feasible to save voice recordings of many of
our meetings, teleconferences, interviews, and other conversations. In
some environments -- call centers and certain sectors of finance and
government -- that already happens. But audio surveillance isn't yet
routine, and the thorny legal, social, and cultural issues it raises
haven't yet been widely debated. That's because, until now, there was
no practical way to mine voice data.

As with other forms of practical obscurity, this artificial barrier
was bound to topple, and now it has. Fast-Talk Communications'
revolutionary phonetic indexing and search technology brings the magic
of full-text search to the formerly opaque realms of audio recordings
and video soundtracks. If you consider the way in which Google has
already become everyone's indispensable "outboard brain," and
extrapolate that to all the voice data that exists -- and to the vast
quantities that soon will exist -- it's hard to avoid the conclusion
that Fast-Talk is one of the most disruptive technologies in the pipeline.


Read more
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ap/xml/02/12/16/021216apfastalk.xml

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