[Sigia-l] Searchable audio

[Listera]

Just when you thought you had a handle on archiving, categorizing and
accessing textual information, now comes searchable audio.

Phonetic indexing and search technology from Fast-Talk brings full-text
search to audio recordings and video soundtracks. This doesn't involve
speech-to-text translation + text indexing. It directly indexes audio via
the 39 phonemes in English. For example, 'phonetically' is indexed as
'F AH N EH T IH K L IY'. Fast-talk time-stamps the occurrence of each
phoneme, so you can also do proximity searches of 'X within 35 seconds of
Y'. Very neat.

Anyhow, here's an article on this:

<http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/ap/xml/02/12/16/021216apfastalk.xml?T
emplate=/storypages/printfriendly.html>

Best,

Ziya