I came across a pretty cool search engine the other day called PodZinger. It’s a searching engine that scours the web looking for podcasts and then transcribes the file so it’s searchable by keyword.

BBN Technologies developed PodZinger capitalising on their 30-year history of speech recognition technology. Apparently this is the same technology used by the CIA and special agent Jack Bauer.

Even if you’re not trying foil terrorist plans, PodZinger is still useful to search podcasts that mention specific words or phrases i.e. searching for “digital convergence”. When you select a search result, PodZinger dynamically creates markers cued up to where that search phrase was mentioned.

PodZinger also allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds, so you can automatically download new podcasts that contain your search phrase.

And finally, PodZinger can now search the contents of YouTube videos.

Check it out at: http://www.podzinger.com/

Tim Fouhy, Managing Director

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