Yesterday, Pluggd and CNet unveiled our HearHere search capability over a sampling of popular ZDnet shows.
It’s exciting, because this is the first time people are able to search within media using a heatmap experience.
Before this, users had two choices: full meal deal or get up from the table.
Now they can find and snack on the [...]
We’re excited to be mentioned in a story in the Economist today about
speech recognition. The article does a good job of surveying the space, but
what really makes Pluggd different (and speech reco useful for video search)
is the chunking technology we’ve developed (read more about chunks).
It’s great to see the company getting highlighted this way in [...]
We got some questions about what these chunk-things are after my last post. Some folks asked how this is different from just searching for the utterance of a word in video. It’s quite a bit different. Matt Marshall at Venture Beat did a good job describing how Pluggd works in this post (http://venturebeat.com/2006/12/06/pluggd-perfects-audio-and-video-search-raises-165m/) after [...]