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September 14, 2007
Search What's Said On German TV and Radio With Spactor
The title of this post harks back to one written about Podzinger by Marshall Kirkpatrick, where he wrote about the English language audio and video search tool.
This one is German and it is called Spactor.com. It comes from a one year old Bremen-based company called Mediaclipping GmbH, which sells a a real-time audio clipping service for the German-speaking business market.
It recently launched Spactor as a freemium product. It lets you search for keywords inside broadcasts from some 75 radio and TV stations in the region.
If you follow the links it digs up, you can hear the immediate context of the audio cast. If you want to hear the whole clip, then you need to subscribe to mediaclipping.de.
A lot of things come together well in the Spactor service: speech to text, keyword search, and audio playback - and it does it without the need to download anything. It is all available in the browser (we use Firefox 1.5)
We learned about it via a press release his week via Deutsche Startup blog, reporting it had raised an undisclosed amount of seed capital.
Spactor's cloud of the most commonly 'heard' words. No big revelations though - it's traffic and money that dominate the airwaves.
The speech to text technology comes from Sail Labs, which is now backed by private equity money from IPO Austria and Tecnet Equity.
Mediaclipping's roster of investors include Redalpine Venture Fund, Sparkasse Bremen, PictureSafe media/data/bank GmbH along with business angels Detlef Hanke, Andreas Hanitsch, Jan Andresen, Peter Schüpbach und Martin van Os.
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Posted on September 14, 2007 05:40 AM | Posted to Media | News And Updates | Permalink
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