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Many, if not most, UKeiG training sessions have to do with searching: new techniques, new technologies, and so on.
O'Reilly Radar (blog) reports:
Information Week reports: "In a research paper [pdf] presented last week at interactive television conference Euro ITV in Athens, Greece, Google researchers Michele Covell and Shumeet Baluja propose using ambient-audio identification technology to capture TV sound with a laptop PC to identify the show that is the source of the sound and to use that information to immediately return personalized Internet content to the PC. 'We showed how to sample the ambient sound emitted from a TV and automatically determine what is being watched from a small signature of the sound—all with complete privacy and minuscule effort,' Covell and Baluja write on the Google Research Blog. 'The system could keep up with users while they channel surf, presenting them with a real-time forum about a live political debate one minute and an ad-hoc chat room for a sporting event in the next.'"I think it was at the 2005 AGM day that we heard about new search techniques for finding images. Now sound searching is possible! As O'Reilly Radar says, what is "most interesting about this technology is not its current intended use, but all its possible unintended uses!"
Who knows what you will hear about at the 2006 AGM day!
posted by Chris Armstrong @ 8:43 AM
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This sounds like the same technology that Shazam uses to allow people in clubs and bars to call a number and the system "listens" to the music that is playing and then texts them back with the artist and title of it.
With the increasing integration of multimedia equipment in the home, and the increasing saturation of digital tv (which transmits authoritative, electronic information about what one is watching) this development, while interesting and even exciting to the geek within me, seems a bit gimmicky and unnecessary.
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