TVEyes Wednesday said it expanded the capability of its free search engine--specifically designed for podcasts when it launched in April--to now search audio and video files from around the Web.
Podscope, so called, is now accepting audio and video submissions from the general Web-surfing public to include in its database. The engine utilizes voice-recognition technology to search content
files word-by-word. A search spider "plays" all content it tracks, and, technically speaking, runs a speech-to-text algorithm on it. When users search Podscope's database of transcribed text, they can
listen to snippets that include chosen keywords or entire files. Google recently invited users to submit video files, which it plans to make searchable at some point in the near future. Yahoo! Video
crawls the Web for content, and recently began allowing users to submit content via MediaRSS.
--G.O.
