Jalipo, a new online video distribution service, launched in beta form today, aiming to offer online users high-quality video and television programming on a pay-as-you-go basis. Rather than trying to be a hub for user-generated video—a la YouTube—the London-based Jalipo instead offers a way for video distributors and copyright holders to offer their content for sale online in a secure, high-quality rights-protected fashion. And Jalipo already has some high-profile partners on board, in the form of the BBC and the English edition of Al Jazeera.
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New IBM Speech Tech Aims to Be Superhuman
IBM has unveiled Embedded ViaVoice 4.4, which offers freeform command recognition, on-the-fly translation and subtitling services, and can claim to comprehend some nuances of spoken English. The technology is designed to enable users to control systems embedded in vehicles, handheld devices, and other non-computer applications to speak flexibly and naturally to devices without having to memorize and carefully pronounced pre-defined spoken commands.
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