PodZinger Offers Full-Text Podcast Searches

The Podzinger podcast search service applies BBN speech recognition technology to podcasts, in-context search results, and playback from matched terms.

Podzinger, a division of BBN Technologies, today announced the launch of its Podzinger podcast search engine. Unlike podcast directories such as those offered by Apple or Yahoo, Podzinger applies BNN’s speech recognition technology to podcast audio itself and creates a searchable index of the transcribed text. Users then search for terms and words in podcasts the same way they would use any other search engine. Podzinger displays the search results in context, providing text surrounding the matched term, and