How podcasting will take off

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Beet.tv has a feature on Podzinger, a podcast search engine that is a subsidiary of defense contractor BBN. BBN developed speech-to-text technology for the government’s anti-terrorism efforts and is now putting it to use on the public web.

Podzinger analyzes the language of clips and determines whether they are music or have speech. If there is speech, a transcription is created which is nearly 80 percent accurate, company executives say.

The transcripts are searchable, so finding audio relevant to a keyword search is not a problem. They’ve already indexed 1.5 million YouTube clips. Once this technology becomes more widespread–once Google offers a “podcast” tab next to “image,” “books,” and “news”–podcasting will certainly get a boost, moving it further into the mainstream. That podcast you recorded a year ago and that hasn’t gotten many hits since its release week will suddenly be valuable again once it’s indexed.

Mar 13, 2007 | Comments | Tags: , ,

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