It's a positive article (as it should be) about Blinkx but the article makes no mention, even in passing, about other search resources that allow the user to search every word spoken in a video, audio feed, podcast, etc.
In fact, before Blinkx came online, Virage (now part of Autonomy and where Chandratillake used to work) was offering keyword search of audio/content and offered (and still does) it's technology on some PBS sites. We have a list of several searchable and viewable PBS programs (including the PBS NewsHour) below.
+ Nexidia, also online for a couple of years, offers phonetic searching (phoneme) search of each word spoken in a video or audio. This is unlike what's available from other sources. Others use speech recognition, keywords (surrounding the video file), closed captioning, or a combination. Nexidia is different. It breaks down the spoken word into phonemes (about 40 in most languages). This allows for faster and more precise indexing with far fewer hours of "training" a speech recognition engine to understand jargon and difficult words. It also can work with most languages.
+ Podscope's parent, TVEyes.com offers both free and fee-based services of near real-time content most national television networks and local stations in several large cities. Also, in some markets, radio search is also available. For example, in NYC you can keyword search the two all-news stations, WCBS and WINS. TVEyes has been online for more than 7 years. At one point, TVEyes also offered searchable video content from Bloomberg Business News on Yahoo Video. The TVEyes free service is accessible via the search box on their home page. More about the free service here.
+ ShadowTV,Critical Mention, and Fednet also offer near real time transcript search from both local stations and network television.
+ SteamSage, based in D.C. is now working with Comcast to develop video search tools. During the last presidential election, they offered CampaignSearch.
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