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No blog numbers to report today, of course, because I haven't been at the office. But I'm going into the last three days of the month about 2000 shy of hitting my fourth 100,000 month despite summer and a vacation earlier this month. Thanks for helping make this blog a success. .
The newsgathering potential of voice-to-text conversion service ...
A technology that first found the light of day as a neat device for converting voicemail to an email could improve searches for online video content and become an important tool for news providers, developers claim.
Voice-to-text service SpinVox converts speech to text using an automated speech recognition system.
Simon Crowfoot, the company's strategic business development director told Journalism.co.uk that voicemail was just one of a range of applications for the technology.
SpinVox, he said, could be used to make video and audio clips more easily searchable by detailing the words contained in the audio rather than relying on tags and titles assigned by publishers.
"Hypothetically you could go to YouTube and say, show me all the clips containing the word London, and it would bring up not just the clips that have London in the title or tags, but those where it's contained in the audio itself," explained Crowfoot.
Photographs and Memories
The family stories on these pages emerged from readers' letters and interviews with writer Katie Thomas. Though the accounts were edited for clarity and to fit the format of "Our Family Album," our goal throughout was to present them in the voices of the Long Islanders you will meet in this section. The families, old pictures and documents in "Our Family Album" were photographed by Tom Ferrara, with additional photography by Bill Davis, John H. Cornell Jr. and Viorel Florescu. .
Advertising.com co-founder Scott Ferber's latest venture lands $15M in ...
Advertising.com co-founder's new venture lands $15M in funding [Washington, D.C.] Time Warner to split up AOL division [Baltimore] Advertising.com strengthens retail reach with AOL purchase of U.K. e-marketer buy.at [Baltimore] Google, Yahoo and Ask.com Internet search market share up in January [East Bay] AOL launches Spanish-language site [Baltimore] .
Stocks Fall on Bleak Corporate Forecasts
Shares of Airbus' parent company surged Monday after the French planemaker snatched a $40 billion U.S. Air Force contract from its American rival, the Boeing Co. European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. and its U.S. partner, Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman, won the contract to build military refueling planes Friday, one of the biggest Pentagon contracts in decades. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) .
Road blocks on Obama's nomination expressway?
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Nexsan offers 42TB in 4U for Macs
Nexsan has announced the the SATABeast Xi, a high density, energy efficient storage solution built and optimized for the Apple Xserve and Mac Pro. The solution offers up to 42TB of storage in 4U of rack space, and features AutoMAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks). This allows SATABeast Xi to place its disk drives in an idle state to conserve energy yet provide near-instantaneous access to data. The unit also offers dual function Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity at wire-speed performance. The SATABeast Xi is designed for primary storage of large data set applications like uncompressed, real-time HDTV as well as multi-stream and analog TV signals and video editing. The SATABeast Xi pricing starts at $1,200/TB. This pricing includes all the software licenses required to operate SATABeast Xi out of the box.
The Katrina of All Fences
Roger L. Simon doesn't "despise Bush personally" yet he's voting for him. Curious behavior ... 12:42 A.M. Caterpillar's Tricks: Fellow Kerry-basher John Ellis says the "talk of the political community" is that there has been "almost no" Edwards Bounce--and the NYT's Adam Nagourney (with his carefully crafted 'comes-at-a-time' hype sentence*) is spinning the Dem's cocoon again. ... *--The hype sentence: The Democrats' emerging plan for Mr. Edwards comes at a time when Democratic and even some Republican officials suggest that Mr. Kerry's vice-presidential selection has the potential of being the most politically significant choice since another Massachusetts Democrat, John F. Kennedy, turned to another Southerner, Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1960. [Emphasis added.] [What's wrong w/ 'comes at a time'?-ed.
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