Full-Text Audio Search via Slashdot

This actually looks interesting!

Captain Chad writes "The latest print edition (12/16/2002) of InfoWorld has an interesting article about an audio search program by Fast-Talk Communications. (The article is not yet available on the InfoWorld web site, but the Fast-Talk site has some good info, including a downloadable trial version.) The product works by breaking the audio stream into phonemes, which are the 'basic units of sound in a language.' The search is then performed for a specific sequence of phonemes. This method is faster and far superior to traditional audio searches which convert to text and then perform a normal text search. The author of the Infoworld article, Jon Udell, tried a variety of searches that were surpisingly successful. If this technology is as good as he claims, there is a reasonable chance it will revolutionize the way we store data. Maybe there will even be an 'Audio' tab on Google." Here's the Infoworld article. [Slashdot]

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This is mainly about using chat as part of a language learning strategy. There are also some good links to other resources.

For Foreign-Language Learners, the Web Unties Tongues. For students of foreign languages, the Web is a goldmine of learning tools. [New York Times: Technology]

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