Full-Text Audio Search

Captain Chad writes "The latest print edition (12/16/2002) of InfoWorld has an interesting article about an audio search program by Fast-Talk Communications. (The article is not yet available on the InfoWorld web site, but the Fast-Talk site has some good info, including a downloadable trial version.) The product works by breaking the audio stream into phonemes, which are the 'basic units of sound in a language.' The search is then performed for a specific sequence of phonemes. This method is faster and far superior to traditional audio searches which convert to text and then perform a normal text search. The author of the Infoworld article, Jon Udell, tried a variety of searches that were surpisingly successful. If this technology is as good as he claims, there is a reasonable chance it will revolutionize the way we store data. Maybe there will even be an 'Audio' tab on Google." Here's the Infoworld article.

Comments

Just one more step on the road to TIA

[Grapes4Buddha]

How long before the feds start digitizing all of our telephone conversations and using this technology to google our private conversations?

Yay!

Re:Just one more step on the road to TIA

[m.lemur]

You think its not happening already?

Yes, but...

[Erpo]

...can it decode rap and/or reggae? I swear I can't understand 3/4 of those lyrics. Songs could start with

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Re:Google's Voice Searc

[The-Perl-CD-Bookshel]

The Google voice search is used to search Google by telephone rather than online. This doesn't search through voice/audio records for matches.

So...

[dacarr]

Does it recognize speech, or does it wreck a nice peach?