Category Archives: features

Search Inside Obama’s Inaugural Speech

Try Search Inside
We invite you to experience President Obama’s inaugural speech using our search inside technology. To do this, type what you’re looking for into the player searchbar above. A heatmap will show you where information related to your topic appears in the speech. You can move your mouse over the heatmap to see the [...]

Hungry? Get your Hot CNet Chunks!

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 [...]

Pluggd in the Economist

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 [...]

More about Chunks: The Parts You Want

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 [...]

Hear Here! Search new ESPN podcasts for what YOU want to Hear.

Yep, check it out y’all. New episodes of the ESPN Sportscenter podcast are searchable using the Pluggd “HearHere” technology. This badboy is going to be available sitewide so soon it keeps me awake at night thinking about all of the podcasts I’ll be searching through.

Like the Patriots? Fire up the [...]

the DEMO demo

Pluggd’s HearHere allows people to jump to the exact position in audio or video, such as podcasts and video casts, where there is something they want to hear. People have come to expect this instant return with web pages, but up until now audio and video have failed to deliver the same searchability. Now, you [...]