Comments on: Search engines try to find their sound

Consumers armed with home broadband connections are driving new demand for multimedia content and setting off a new wave of technology development among search engine companies.

[Razzl]

Good work, Stefanie!

This is an outstanding article on what I think will be one of the most important issues on the web in the coming decade. There doesn't seem to be any other place on the Web or in print that can explain these issues the way CNET can...my praise to Stefanie Olsen and all of your staff...

[c|netnews]

Why is NPR traffic dropping like a rock

it seems their attempt has not gone so well?

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=www.npr.org

www alexa com search www npr org

[astudios]

Speaking of searching audio! Here's the perfect site for it!

SermonAudio.com! Now, here's an interesting site that's got over 37,000 audio MP3 files (all free) of sermons from hundreds of churches. It's all voice audio and so it would be the perfect application for these "audio-search" engines!

[Peter Halmos]

ACTNow from Compure

Compure (www.compure.com) offers a similar technology called ACTNow Phonetic Index Search. This technology allows you to search for words or phrases in a very fast way (audio mining).
There are also quite interesting white papers which compare the different technologies available for download under: http://www.compure.com/Download.asp