Comments on: NBC Invests In Video Search Startup EveryZing And Signs Up As Its Biggest Customer

By: Arlo

Arlo — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:01:01 +0000

This is interesting, but is automatic speech recognition really needed if most pre-recorded television shows are already transcribed to provide closed captioning?

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WIRELESS « Daily Marauder — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:11:44 +0000

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By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:48:09 +0000

Everyzing is solid, smart, scalable – and this move makes Hulu an even more viable competitor to Youtube – particularly when it comes to search, where Youtube is still in diapers.

That said, I’m predicting right here, right now, that Google will steal their thunder in less than six months when they start rolling out speech-to-text on a larger scale (they’ve already tested the water around the election cycle last year).

If Google can afford the bandwidth to offer this as a free service through YouTube…game over for everyzing and everyone else in this space.

By: manny

manny — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:43:47 +0000

I’m guessing that anyone in this business oversells. I mean come on, is it (or anyone) really that good at creating near transcript output of an arbitrary video??? I was just watching the 1st video linked here (http://www.crun...mpany/everyzing) and the guy claims that they can. I’m no speech recognition researcher but I know that are significant limitations in the field. There must be some major constraints in the technology but no one is actually asking these questions in the interviews.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:23:07 +0000

sounds like a good investment

By: JP

JP — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:21:23 +0000

Sounds like you work for one of their competitors.

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By: noobssss

noobssss — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:34:46 +0000

I think they just got lucky. Their technology has a number of drawbacks and they tend to oversell. So I just hope that nbc did their homework or they’ll have some problems delivering.
Also I think their pricing is too expensive… and they do have scalability issues. Their pricing is setup so that customers prepay/finance growth.. something that brings along it’s own problems…

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NBC invierte en Everyzing — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:39:08 +0000

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Mon, 11 May 2009 13:08:16 +0000

[...] NBC is also investing in the company, leading its latest $8.25 million C round, through its venture capital arm, the Peacock Equity Fund. Peacock Equity put in $3 million of the total, with existing investors Fairhaven Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Accel Partners and BBN Technologies putting up the rest. The valuation was flat with the last $10 million round the company raised in 2007…….[read entire article] [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:45:01 +0000

I am confused, doesn’t NBC (sure it’s MSNBC) already have a partnership with Microsoft, so why not join-up with them to do this? I am sure they already have a system like this up and running somewhere in their R&D Departments.

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By: VideosLocator.com

VideosLocator.com — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:21:09 +0000

natural language processing?
how does everyzing fit into that.

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By: Moby

Moby — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:40:29 +0000

wow! this is huge

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