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The launch of Podzinger last week (January 13, 2006) as a podcast search engine has improved the state of podcast search on the web. The previous norm in podcast search functionality was to allow visitors to search on categories of…

podzinger is speech to text i.e transcription. so you take a speech signal and figure out the probability a certain set of sounds matches a known word in your dictionary. after you’ve done the conversion, search is regular old text search (so it’s super fast).

podscope is in speech search which basicaly extracts the phoenemes and creates an index based on this info. whe n you do a search you’re search for a match of sounds. it’s not as fast the podzinger method but is better for stuff like names, places etc which may not exist in text dictionaries.

my ignorant opinion is that you really want a hybrid model where the frontline search uses the podscope method but then trains the podzinger system with new vocabulary. so over time you can get much better transcription.

It’s great to see people jumping into this game. It’ll only improve the pace of speech search research. i expect the big boys to make their first moves around the middle of this year.

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He’s quite a different sort when compared to many Web 2.0 entrepreneurs who bootstrap with a mashup, partner with a technology provider based only on the strength of an idea for a “business development opportunity” or cobble together just enough capital to license an existing technology and then hope to get to either cash flow break even or a VC funding / buyout liquidity event before time runs out.

I’m curious…does anyone here have an informed perspective on whose speech to text technology is stronger between Podzinger and Podscope…and why?

Most media players including Quicktime require that the file be downloaded before play begins.

False – QuickTime has supported ‘fast start’ playback while downloading since the first browser plugin.

You should not experience this delay with RealPlayer, since it supports something called the Range feature of the HTTP1.1 protocol that makes it possible to begin playing almost immediately at any point in an audio file.

QuickTime supports this too – if you make a reference movie pointing partway into an online file, it starts at that offset.

Web Office itself is going to have a big climb uphill in terms of adoption. Enterprise culture is slow at adopting new technologies, and they are right to be so, because there are inherent risks in adopting new technologies.

Where they are even slow to adopt Instant Message (although many employees use it, employers don’t see it that useful).

Don’t forget about the allmighty SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley). Critical office documents created and stored on server based technology, located god knows where under god knows what security standards.

You can already email your blog. Now you can leave a voicemail and have it posted on your blog. Or have the transcript of a conference call posted up.

I am currently building an enterprise blogging system for my firm. We have 130,000 employees. Although blogging and Wikis have taken off on the public web, broad adoption within the enterprise is going to be a big challenge.

It is important to find as many ways for people to easily transition from the tools they use today to Web Office tools such as enterprise blogs and enterprise wikis.

Techchrunch reported earlier today about a company specialized in voice search of podcasting.  This is very cool technology and I have to say that I was very impressed with the results. The ability to recognize voice and search in it in a simi…

If you listen to multiple podcasts on similar topics are trying to track down what show had the word “Evil Gnome” look no further than Podzinger. The site uses voice pattern matching/recognition software to query multiple podcasts. Throw…