AOL's and Lycos' interest in spoken-word search has brought a sense of legitimacy to the technology. We expect the other big search vendors will soon partner with a spoken-word search vendor or develop their own audio search engine soon. Finally, TVEyes doesn't envision a corporate audio search appliance in the near future, as Podscope uses several evolving voice-recognition servers. The company said an appliance is on the long-term horizon. For now, the technology exists for external or public content.
Michael J. DeMaria is an associate technology editor based at Network Computing's Syracuse University's
Real-World Labs®. Write to him at [email protected].
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