11Alive.com debuts phonetic video search

WXIA-TV’s 11Alive.com has debuted a beta search application powered by a company called Nexidia that allows users to search for video by audio keywords. So for example, I searched for “John Car” (instead of “John Karr”) and it correctly identified the exact locations in WXIA’s newscasts where the words were spoken by the anchors or reporters. Wow. Search results appear in the form of full newscasts, but when you click to play, the newscast is cued up where the words were mentioned — and corresponding index points appear on the play bar. Very impressive. (Thanks for the tip, John!)