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TVEyes launches Podscope, first spoken word index and search engine
With so seemingly hundreds of thousands of podcasts popping up every day, how's a person supposed to keep track of it all? Sure, iTunes 4.9 and other apps have indexes to help you find something to listen to, but if the title of the podcast and/or show notes aren't detailed, how do you know if it's really worth listening to?Enter Podscope. Podscope is a service of TVEyes that plans to index every single word in every single podcast by every single "known" (to whom?) podcaster by the end of August. It's like Google for podcast content. Now that's a lofty goal.
"Podscope uses our proprietary speech recognition software to fuel our Spoken Word Index(TM) engine, enabling users to see and hear exactly what they are searching for in audio and video files," said David J. Ives, president and chief executive officer of TVEyes, Inc.
Yes! I couldn't agree more. You may recall that one of the reasons I am so down on podcasts is that they aren't searchable. If Podscope solves that problem, I might become a believer.
Podscope already indexes more than 20,000 podcasts from more than 3,500 sites. In addition to its web crawl for podcasts, site owners can submit their sites for indexing.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bloggator said 4:16PM on 7-26-2005
I really hope this works, but it seems like a TALL order.
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Peter, The Peter Files said 7:11AM on 7-27-2005
I am one of the iPodless who has been using iTunes to listen to podcasts just for the heck of it but have not put much effort into it because it seemed like there was no good way to look for the kind of content that I was interested in, so Podscope makes me feel like there is a way to find Podcasts I might be interested in and a reason to issue podcasts of my own.
C'mon, if Al Franken and ABC can manage it, why not the Peter Files Blog of Comedy and Satire?
This also segues (Sic) neatly with the new release of Garage Band. Which may or may not be needed to issue podcasts, though I think my v1.10 might be enough depending on whether I have a place to host if from, sigh.
Well I need to do more research I guess. Comments welcome.
Peter
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Cyberwhore said 1:52AM on 7-27-2005
Worked for me.
I just gave it a go and stumbled across a podcast for my favourite show on my favourite radio station. I never even knew they podcasted as they dont promote it.
Nice site. Very simple and gets the job done.
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Jason Harris said 1:08PM on 8-25-2005
I interviewed the CEO of TVEyes on my podcast a while back. Check out http://www.podcastdude.com/2005/04/risky-business-episode-one.html
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Jason Harris said 11:29AM on 7-27-2005
I interviewed the CEO of TVEyes on my podcast a while back. Check out http://www.podcastdude.com/2005/04/risky-business-episode-one.html
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