Cisco Delivers Advanced Network-Based Media Processing Platform

Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a media processing platform that simplifies live and on-demand media sharing across PCs, mobile devices and other digital screens, by seamlessly formatting video and rich media for viewing on any device. The create once and share anywhere Cisco Media Processing platform provides media conversion, real-time post production, editing, formatting, and network distribution capabilities in a single networked solution to help businesses develop targeted visual communications that drive intimacy with employees and customers. [click heading for more]

A computer can pick out speech even amid cacophony

Using a recent development in speech recognition, it is possible to search through television news programmes provided the recognition system has been trained beforehand. PhD candidate Marijn Huijbregts from the University of Twente (Netherlands) has, however, taken things even further: he has developed Spoken Document Retrieval for audio and video files that the speech recognition system has not yet been trained to deal with [click heading for more]

Google audio search graduates to lab project

Google has elevated the profile of its attempt to make videos searchable through speech recognition technology, a move that portends a potentially more financially successful YouTube division.
The speech recognition technology was used in an online application that let people search political speeches launched in July, and now the Gaudi (Google Audio Indexing) project has an official interface at Google Labs. [click heading for more]

blinkx Named "Star Performer" by Speech Technology Magazine

blinkx today announced that it has been named a winner of Speech Technology magazine's 2008 Speech Industry Awards in the "Star Performers" category. Awards are presented to individuals and companies for extraordinary efforts made to increase benefits, acceptance and adoption of speech technologies and for outstanding accomplishments in bringing new products and services to the marketplace. The awards were presented recently at the 14th Annual SpeechTEK Conference and Exposition in New York City. [click heading for more]