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Nexidia Announces Availability of Nexidia Developer Edition for Rich Media Search

Posted on: Monday, 6 February 2006, 12:00 CST

PHOENIX, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- DEMO 2006 -- Nexidia, the leading provider of rich media search and speech analytics solutions, announced today the availability of Nexidia Developer Edition, the company's new software development platform. Nexidia Developer Edition will enable content creators and aggregators to rapidly deliver rich media search capabilities to their consumers through the web. Nexidia Developer Edition is built upon the company's patent-pending, award-winning phonetic search engine that is successfully delivering results to enterprises across a range of industries.

With more rich media content being posted on the web (e.g., television broadcasts, radio programming, podcasts) and businesses increasingly archiving sales presentations, conference calls, training seminars, focus groups and voicemail, the need to extract information from these sources is becoming as important -- and in some cases more important -- as the ability to search text. Organizations ranging from content producers to web portals to traditional business enterprises are faced with opportunities and challenges associated with making this unstructured data searchable to their end-users. Nexidia will partner with leading providers in their respective industries to respond to this need. Nexidia Developer Edition gives these organizations the ability to obtain insight into their multimedia assets and leverage this information in ways never thought possible.

"As the barriers to digital media creation and distribution continue to fall, the only thing slowing down exponential growth in usage is the ability to locate this content," said John Willcutts, president and CEO of Nexidia. "With the introduction of Nexidia's Developer Edition platform, we've added another essential offering to our product portfolio, while providing a solution to accurately index, search and discover the content contained in these massive libraries of rich media. In doing so, we are striving to do nothing less than change the way consumers, content producers, advertisers and aggregators mine rich media."

Unlike other technologies that conduct rich media searches according to often-inaccurate information found in text-based captions, titles or indices, Nexidia allows users to search on the actual audio content in the media. This is because Nexidia Developer Edition is built upon the company's unique phonetics-based search engine that performs searches based on sounds, not text. As a result of this approach, Nexidia products deliver an unparalleled combination of speed, accuracy, and scalability in searches of audio and video content.

Technical features of the Nexidia ESI Developer Edition include:

(1) Application Framework: Audio indexing and search components are made available to application developers via open-standard Web Service (SOAP) interfaces. These interfaces are designed to allow the rapid integration of powerful speech analysis without a detailed understanding of the underlying technologies and SDKs.

(2) Ease of Integration: By providing a standards-based SOAP interface, Nexidia Web Services can be integrated into applications built with virtually any programming language running on the majority of commercial platforms.

(3) Future Proofing: By integrating through the published interfaces, organizations will be able to take advantage of improvements in Nexidia's system performance to evolve their products with relatively little development overhead.

(4) Scalability: Leveraging the unique characteristics of Nexidia's phonetic search engine, Nexidia Developer Edition is able to process very large volumes of audio content without the huge investment in hardware required by comparable solutions.

About Nexidia

Nexidia is a leading provider of highly scalable, highly accurate rich media search and speech analytics software. By transforming audio data into actionable intelligence, Nexidia allows both government and commercial enterprises, in industries such as Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Services, Media Creation and Aggregation, Telecommunications and Outsourcing, to leverage untapped information previously locked away in audio-video content. Based on years of research and development, Nexidia's phonetic engine is the only tool that allows the user to search on proper names, places, industry terms and jargon without extensive training and cumbersome dictionaries. The process is adaptable to a range of audio analyses, excels across the full spectrum of audio quality, and supports language ID and music & silence detection. Nexidia's proven technology is a fundamentally different approach and is the only audio-video search solution that can answer the market demand for a highly scalable and accurate solution. For more information, please visit http://www.nexidia.com/.

About DEMO 2006

DEMO is the premier launch venue for new products, technologies, and companies. For more than 10 years, DEMO has established a reputation for identifying and presenting to an elite audience the products most likely to have a significant impact on the marketplace and market trends in the coming year. Each product is carefully screened and selected by DEMO's Executive Producer, Chris Shipley, one of the top trend spotters in the personal technology product industry. DEMO is held two times a year in February and September.

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Nexidia

CONTACT: Heather Reinhart of Nexidia, +1-404-495-7254,hreinhart@nexidia.com; or Gil Chorbajian of Ogilvy Public Relations,+1-518-355-0966, gil.chorbajian@ogilvypr.com, for Nexidia

Web site: http://www.nexidia.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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