14 DAY TRIAL // The video search engine blinkx, one of the most interesting search services around, today introduced SmartFeed, the first service to enable Internet users to receive highly personalized audio and video content, from a wealth of news and entertainment sources, via RSS.
Internet users can now visit www.blinkx.tv, enter a customized search, specify from which of over 30 channels they wish to receive content, and click the "Create SmartFeed" button to begin receiving relevant rich multimedia content, delivered directly to their desktops. The audio and video segments are then aggregated from the selected sources, and delivered to their RSS readers as links, just like the basic, text-based services that exist today.
blinkx is the only search engine optimized for rich media, using voice recognition software to transcribe the content of audio and video segments, whether it is commercial broadcast material, from outlets such as CNN or Fox News, or user-generated material, such as podcasts and videoblogs. While traditional RSS feeds retrieve only text-based content, blinkx's spider crawls the Web in search of rich media, automatically identifying and processing hundreds of hours of content on a daily basis, to make it readily available to users.
SmartFeeds give users an unprecedented level of control, offering them the flexibility to determine both the topic and the sources of any given feed.Building on the success of blinkx's podcasting service, SmartFeed also supports RSS enclosure standards so that podcast content can be delivered directly to podcast receiver software allowing users to download, synch and go.
blinkx TV combines advanced speech recognition and transcription techniques with intelligent Context Clustering Technology (CCT) and a patented context prediction and synchronization technology to analyze and understand the actual content (spoken words) of an audio/video file, delivering unparalleled automation, accuracy and access to multimedia content from the web. The output of these analytical sub-processes are stored as further metadata tracks, alongside the digitally encoded content itself; not only does blinkx know what was said, blinkx knows exactly when it was said.