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Announcing Nexiwave 3.0
Monday, 25 April 2011 16:25
Boston MA - April 25th, 2011 - Nexiwave, the Speech Indexing company, today announced its next major release 3.0.
With this release, Nexiwave brought many technical and services advancements, including a current state-of-the-art speech engine, numerous performance improvements and many service feature updates.
As Nickolay Shmyrev, Nexiwave VP of Research, said: “We are very excited with this release. We have put all our knowledge to make it accurate and fast. However, our goals are more ambitious. We look forward to offering an even more accurate solution that will match the accuracy of the human transcription while easy to plug into any service”.
To adapt to the customer business model, Nexiwave 3.0 also includes new licensing options, such as turn-key solution and software-only licensing.
For more information and price inquiry, please contact info@nexiwave.com.
About Nexiwave
Nexiwave was founded in 2008 to provide speech-to-text technology for developers. Nexiwave's 100% machine-based approach is fast, scalable and secure. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA, with operations in both US and Canada. For more information, please visit http://nexiwave.com.
Nexiwave.com and UbiCast Partner to Offer Next-Generation Deep Audio Search
Thursday, 02 December 2010 04:00
-- Nexiwave.com's Speech Indexing Technology, Accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA,
Will Enable Fast, Cost-Effective Audio Search on Large Volumes of Multimedia Content --
Boston, MA — December 2, 2010 — Nexiwave.com, the speech indexing company, today announced a strategic partnership with UbiCast, a leading webcast equipment and hosting provider. Through the partnership, UbiCast will offer deep audio search as a standard, cost-effective feature to its customers.
Deep audio search is the ability to search for and locate - with a high degree of accuracy - a spoken word or phrase in media assets such as webcasts, videos and conference calls. With this new feature, consumers will be able to easily search and jump to exact points of interest.
Florent Thiery, CTO of UbiCast, commented: "UbiCast customers produce large amounts of high-value content, but finding and retrieving archived information has been a challenge. Until now, rich spoken content has not been searchable on a broad scale because it was simply too expensive to process. Searches have been limited to metadata such as titles and dates. The new Nexiwave.com technology, which is accelerated by GPUs, is making ubiquitous processing cost-justifiable for the first time ever."
"Information does not exist if it cannot be found," said Benjamin Jiang, CEO of Nexiwave.com. "Our mission is to unlock and discover the vast amount of spoken content that exists on the web and in media assets."
Background
The amount of speech content that could potentially be indexed and searched is huge. For example, there are hundreds of millions of podcasts on the web, with 24 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. Conference call companies carry over a billion minutes of calls per month. The objective of speech indexing is to enable fast, cost-effective and accurate extraction of spoken information from archived audio and video content. Through the use of advanced technologies and hardware, the Nexiwave.com solution achieves as much as a 70X speedup over current solutions, reducing costs by as much as 85%.
About UbiCast: UbiCast is a leading provider of automated rich media capture products, including EasyCast, a solution for creating and sharing professional video webcasts, and ForuMedia, a solution for one-push online publishing. For more information, contact info@ubicast.eu or visit www.ubicast.eu.
About Nexiwave.com: Nexiwave.com is the first commercial GPU-accelerated speech indexing service provider. The company's services include audio search, speech-to-text output for speech analytics, automated subtitles, speaker segmentation and transcription time stamping. Nexiwave 2.0, accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA, was released in June 2010 and is in production. Nexiwave.com offers SaaS (software as a service) and cloud computing solutions as well as software licenses. Nexiwave.com is an active user of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment and is planning to incorporate the newly-announced Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances into its services. For more information, contact info@nexiwave.com.
Introduce Automated Subtitle and Index-On-Demand
Thursday, 14 October 2010 10:44
Nexiwave is excited to announce the addition of these new features:
Automated Subtitle
Interested in adding subtitle for the media assets, but not sure about the staggering $100/hour cost?
Introduce Automated Subtitle from Nexiwave. Backed by Nexiwave ultra fast GPU speech processing technology, we think this is the most affordable way to add subtitle for your media assets.
Using Nexiwave Subtitle is as simple as obtaining subtitle from the Nexiwave subtitle URL. With Index-on-Demand, Nexiwave will retrieve and process your media at the first subtitle request.
For more information, visit here.
Index-On-Demand
Not sure which media asset should be processed? Don't feel like code anything?
Why not let your users decide what should be processed? Why not wait until an audio is actually being used by your users?
Introduce Index-On-Demand. Simply use one of our Index-On-Demand data URL, such as Automated Subtitle URL, in your application. At the first time the URL was requested by your user, Nexiwave will retrieve and process your media file on the fly.
For more information, visit here.
Announcing Nexiwave 2.8
Wednesday, 22 September 2010 13:42
Nexiwave.com, the Speech Indexing company, announces the 2.8 version of its service. Offering its service mainly in hosted SaaS mode, Nexiwave was able to push this service immediately to its customers. Nexiwave 2.8 features many upgrades and improvements, such as integrated SpeakerId framework, newly designed SenoneTree based search algorithm and ultra-large GPU processing nodes. All these improvements result in faster and more accurate service.
The addition of ultra-large GPU nodes fulfills the Nexiwave promise to its customers. Nexiwave has not only secured the growth potential for the next six month, but also increased in Nexiwave service's disaster-tolerance level.
For more information and integration details, please consult our Integration documents, or contact Nexiwave at info@nexiwave.com.
Nexiwave2.0: GPU based Speech Indexing on NVIDIA CUDA Review and Blog
Wednesday, 23 June 2010 17:23
Nexiwave.com, a GPU based Speech Indexing solution provider, is featured on NVIDIA's CUDA Review and NVIDIA's Corporate Blog. Nexiwave 2.0, the GPU/CUDA-based Speech Indexing solution, obtained speech processing speed never tested before: nearly hundred times faster. Nexiwave 2.0 is capable of indexing/searching large amount of audio nearly hundred times more efficiently.
Speech processing requires intensive computation. Traditionally, accurate speech indexing has not been possible with markets that accumulates large amount of media content. Some good examples are Call Recording, Online media industries, as well as Conference Call services. It would be very helpful to be able to search in those content, but it's simply too expensive to process them. nexiwave expects to bring the same level of accurate speech indexing to these markets, at a much smaller cost.
NVIDIA Blog: http://blogs.nvidia.com/ntersect/2010/06/nexiwave-and-the-future-of-voice-search-cuda.html#more
NVIDIA CUDA Review: http://www.nvidia.com/content/newsletters/web/CUDA_Week_in_Review_June_18_10.html
