RE: Voice content searching

Hello,

This is very interesting technology. It is based on phonetic analysis.
From what I understand, the digitized human speech is broken down to its
phonetic components and an index is created. Then  the text search is
broken down into its phonetic parts and compared to the index. . I
understand the technology works across languages, but that some tables
need to be created. I am not sure what languages are supported so far.
The applications that exist are in court report and in phone tapping.
This is not cheap technology.

I'm sure you can see the application for Digital Talking Books (DTB).
http://www.fast-talk.com 


By the way, if you have not visited the DAISY Web site recently, you may
want to go to:  http://www.daisy.org  

Best
George

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Subject: Voice content searching



Hi -- is anyone aware of any efforts voice content to develop search 
capability?  I'm aware that this is not a trivial problem and would 
require major advances in voice recognition technology.  IMHO we are 
approaching a time of both need and availability of hardware power to 
make such efforts feasible.
Bill

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