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Audio Mining Resources

August 5, 2002 12:00 PM ET

Computerworld - VoiceXML
Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0
W3C Working Draft, October 23, 2001
This World Wide Web Consortium working draft describes the emerging VoiceXML standard. Among other things, VoiceXML represents a common way to create "audio dialogs that feature synthesized speech, digitized audio, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, recording of spoken input, telephony, and mixed-initiative conversations," according to the Web site. VoiceXML's primary focus isn't audio indexing but rather interactive voice response applications.

Audio Mining Software Vendors

  • ScanSoft Inc.
    Boston
    www.scansoft.com
    Dragon MediaIndexer, $15,000
    Audio Mining Development System $25,000


  • Fast-Talk Communications Inc.
    Atlanta
    www.fast-talk.com
    Fast-Talk 2.0
    $500 per recording port


  • BBN Technologies
    Cambridge, Mass.
    www.bbn.com
    BBN Audio Indexer, released January 2002


White Papers

  • This Fast-Talk Communications white paper (download PDF) explains how phonetic searches work.


  • Fast-Talk co-founder and Georgia Institute of Technology professor Mark A. Clements contrasts the phonetic searching technique to the more traditional speech-to-text approach to audio indexing (download PDF)


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