More on Audio Search
January 31, 2006Just a few days after I blogged about Podzinger, John Battelle has a story about Nexidia, an interesting search engine because it uses a different approach. While Podzinger uses speech recognition technology to translate audio into words and then indexing them using standard text retrieval techniques, Nexidia skips the speech recognition step—storing each sound as a phoneme (a unique speech sound) and indexing all phonemes.





