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YouTube Speech-to-Text Recognition Functionality

YouTube, you know that Google-owned online video service, has decided that rich metadata may be the way to go. They believe that it could make a big splash and change the way that videos are indexed. The hot topic of the year so far has ...

Adobe Works To Make Video Search Indexing Easier

We all know how much work it is to transcribe audio or video to text. Adobe knows as well and is doing something about it. Adobe is set to release a new version of Flash that will feature speech-to-text technology for automatic transcription and it ...

General Advice and Concepts for Video Search Optimization

Glenn Pingul, a friend of ours, and the VP of Marketing at Mixpo, wrote a great post this week on iMediaConnection.com that offers some great general advice and tips to help with video search engine optimization (SEO).  Glenn offers some general advice that help with ...

Google Adds Speech Recognition To Video Search

At  the Official Google Blog, Google announced the availability of a new speech recognition tool for video search.  This tool is limited in that it only searches through a set of political videos however it shows a good preview of things to come.  The Google ...

Search Engines Use UGC To Improve Video Search

As you likely have heard, Youtube recently a new annotations feature that basically enables video creators to add add background information to a video hosted on Youtube. You can also use the annotations to link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within ...

Multimedia Search Engine - Snipp.tv

NSC (Natural Speech Communication Ltd.), specializing in speech recognition technology, today announced the launch of Snipp.TV, a multimedia search engine designed for search within online multimedia files (www.snipp.tv ). The Beta version of the search engine enables users to search online video and audio files ...

Google's VisualRank Image Recognition Algorithm

So, how soon before Google and the other main search engines begin to use recognition technologies as primary means in their ranking algorithms for video search? It appears that the first step has been taken by Google in that they are now leading the charge ...

Asterpix Adds Industry's First Automated In-Video Tagging

Yesterday we covered a discussion that we had with the CEO of Asterpix where he walked us through a detailed overview of how the new Asterpix technology works. Here is the press release announcement: Asterpix, the leader in interactive video, today announced technology that automatically ...

Advanced Visual-Based Video Copyright Detection

Eyealike, announced a new product today dubbed, Eyealike Copyright. This 'patent-pending' search platform aims to automate the process of copyright protection for online video content owners. According to the release, the service will automatically distinguish and detect copyrighted content within a video. This is quite ...

Google 411 - Future Plans for Video Search

Several posts have been flying around the net discussing the Google 411 service and ulterior motives for offering Goog-411. Google is keeping no secrets in telling the world that the Goog-411 directory assistance service was created and offered to the public in order to better ...

Sproose - Social Video Search Engine and Voting

Sproose, delivers a "human popularity voting" model where each user may influence the ranking of the index creating improved search results. The more users that vote a site the further up in the ranking it moves. The same voting technology is now being applied to ...

Object Search Recognition With Mobile Video

Today, I read news about a new technology that researchers at Accenture technology labs have developed. I find it to be amazing. This new technology, called "Pocket Supercomputer," enables phones equipped with video cameras to identify objects in the environment using video search (in reverse ...

Video Conversion and Encoding Tools for Video SEO

There are tons of tools available out there for video conversion and encoding.   Thanks to Blinkx.com, we have a few recommendations to start with. Blinkx aims to differentiate itself from what it calls first generation video indexing by considering information culled from an analysis of ...

Video Creation Tips - Make Better Videos

Follow these tips and produce great website videos to impress your visitors and put you way ahead of the competition. While it is important to focus on SEO, meta data, and other things to make your video seen online, it is just as important if ...

Blinkx CEO Discusses Video Search Audio Recognition

Suranga Chandratillake, CEO and founder for Blinkx.com, and a Cambridge University-trained computer scientist talks about his vision for Blinkx.com and their solution for more effective video search. Most video search engines currently rely upon finding clips by the words or "metadata" surrounding video clips. Blinkx ...