With the rush to put audio and video content online in the form of podcasts, traditional media companies are expecting users to wade through mountains of content to hear and see what interests them. As the volume of online audio and video grows, from traditional and emerging sources, searching for relevant material could become very frustrating.
Podscope (www.podscope.com), already indexes more than 20,000 podcasts from more than 3,500 sites and is on track to cover every known podcaster by the end of August. Podscope uses proprietary speech recognition software to fuel a Spoken Word Index engine, enabling users to see and hear exactly what they are searching for in audio and video files. In addition to its Web crawl for podcasts, site owners can submit their sites for indexing at www.podscope.com/submiturl.php.
