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RSS audio searchRedundant Bit Vectors for Quickly Searching High-Dimensional Regions
White Paper Applications such as audio fingerprinting require search in high dimensions: find an item in a database that is similar to a query. An important property of this search task is that negative answers are very frequent: much of the time, a query does... [02 Jun 2006]
Photos: Future tech from HP boffins
Photo HP is also looking at integrating audio and video into the devices, which are relatively light and easy to use and have a battery life of around five hours on full brightness. It can be used for inputting data in a local language, internet search... [12 Apr 2006]
A Detection Based Approach to Robust Speech Understanding
White Paper This paper proposes a detection based method in which the speech recognizer can sharply tune to only the "meaningful" speech and gracefully ignore the "unwanted" audio segments. The method is designed to be integrated with the frame synchronous... [02 Mar 2006]
Free speech at risk online, says study
News A few politicians have proposed altering existing rules so that people could carry out fair-use activities and legally pick the lock on copy-protection technologies for, say, DVDs and audio files. Such notices are rooted in a provision of the... [06 Dec 2005]
Kazaa ordered to block 3,000 keywords
News However the Sharman parties' legal team claimed audio fingerprinting technology from US company Audible Magic, would provide more effective filtering. Audio fingerprinting works by capturing characteristics of songs that can be compared with files... [25 Nov 2005]
Yahoo! set to launch podcast search service
News is shortly expected to launch a podcast service that offers access to much of the streaming audio on the web and features user reviews and other information about the programming. site can increase the playback speed to hear the audio at up to two... [10 Oct 2005]
Web ad revenues soar
News Online ads that incorporate streaming video or audio accounted for just eight per cent of online ad revenue in the first half of the year but are among the fastest-growing segments. This record spending was once again led by ads linked to web... [27 Sep 2005]
Opinion: Blogging - the great democratic equaliser?
Comment I was there to record the gathering, with digital photographs and an audio interview. Before the weblog found a place in the dictionary, I used my own blog to jot down columns and experiences, and was pleasantly surprised to find people visiting... [14 Sep 2005]
The Purpose of Geospatial Fusion Services
White Paper Non-map information - text, video, audio, digital photographs, mpeg movies, sensor data, word processing documents, etc.often refers to place. It would be useful for many people in many situations to be able to "fuse" information such as addresses... [01 Sep 2005]
Emerging tech gets the hype test treatment
News Gartner predicts that podcasting - a method of subscribing to audio broadcasts which are then delivered to your PC or digital media player - "will grow increasingly important as the market for content continues to fragment.which will lead to a... [25 Aug 2005]
'Relax immigration stance for industry's sake'
News We are about four years away from a disk drive that can store my entire life, based on a still shot every few seconds, and telephone phone quality audio. Mike Lynch, founder of the search and knowledge management specialist who at the height of the... [12 Jul 2005]
AOL does video search
News AOL's Singingfish multimedia search engine, which the company acquired two years ago, will complement the new service by pointing visitors to audio and video from across the web. Singingfish specialises in scouring the web for video and audio clips... [04 Jul 2005]
Police eye high-tech helicopter camera in the sky
News Previously inspectors and officers in the control room on the ground had to rely on audio commentary on an incident from an air observer police constable in the helicopter in order to help them make decisions on where to deploy officers at a major... [27 May 2005]
PalmSource CEO bows out
News McVeigh joined the company in February after having served as chief executive at Aliph, a developer of next-generation audio and speech technologies for mobile communications devices. McVeigh will serve as interim CEO while the company initiates a... [24 May 2005]
Yahoo! audio search puts screws on rivals
News s search technology group has been developing the audio search engine for months, according to a source. has invested heavily in music services, and considers audio and video to be cornerstones of the company's future. [06 May 2005]
