PodZinger is a search engine that lets you search for words and phrases within podcasts and videocasts. Yes, within the actual audio. And now there's a plug-in available that adds PodZinger to the Mozilla search toolbar. I installed the plug-in, and a-searchin' I went. PodZinger uses some speech-to-text magic that is far from perfect, but cool nonetheless. Most of the time, the "amber" it supposedly found was actually something like "and in." However, it did find two actual instances of "Georgia Podcast Network." (Obviously I'm going to search for my name and the web site I run... what else would I search for?)
Even though speech-to-text technology is still in the very early stages, PodZinger is definitely a service to keep an eye on. This is the direction in which the web will be heading in coming years.
(Thanks, Jasmine!)
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9-05-2006 @ 5:24PM
Luis Moro said...
Podscope.com has been doing exactly the same for more than a year now. Podzinger is just a good copy of Podscopes service.
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9-06-2006 @ 7:31AM
Mark said...
Podzinger works immediately and provides good results. Podscope stalled on me and I never saw any results. Can you guess what my conclusion is?
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