The Nexiwave Blog

Transcribe Your Recordings In 3 Steps

2011-07-24T11:15:00.000-07:00

Step 1 – Sign in.

You should sign up first. Go to http://nexiwave.com and click on "START TRIAL NOW"

Cool! You have signed up!

Go to your Audio Inbox

Step 2 - Upload the media file.

Then you need to wait for some time while the file is transcribed. It depends on a size of your file and usually requires a few minutes.

Step 3 - Save the transcription

Push the button "Save" and choose the format. Then click "Save as".

Nexiwave.com and UbiCast Partner to Offer Next-Generation Deep Audio Search

2010-12-02T05:18:00.000-08:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Nexiwave.com and UbiCast Partner to Offer Next-Generation Deep Audio Search

--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 become the first company to offer deep audio search as a standard, cost-effective feature to 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 or visit www.nexiwave.com.

Contacts:
Benjamin Jiang
Phone: 617-245-0916
Email: ben@nexiwave.com

Eric Dowson
Phone: 610-745-2614
Email: eric@nexiwave.com

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Nexiwave 2.5: Speaker Identiifcation

2010-08-19T20:33:00.000-07:00

A quick announcement is the introduction is Nexiwave 2.5. We introduced a nice feature called Speaker Identification. Nexiwave automatically recognizes unique speakers in your audio files. Nexiwave can also recognize speakers across your audio files.

For more details, please check the "querySpeakEvents" and "listSpeakers" functions in our API documentation.

nexiwave featured in NVIDIA's CUDA Review

2010-06-21T18:58:00.000-07:00

nexiwave's CUDA based Speech Indexing solution is featured in NVIDIA's latest CUDA Review. To recap, with a total rewrite of acoustic scoring, we moved more than 75% of computation into CUDA 3.0. Our further tuning achieved more than 75 times speedup.

Since the release of CUDA based solution into our production environment, we have been thinking really hard on both technical front, as well as on marketing directions. On the technical side, we are quite interested in moving the remaining computing cycles into CUDA hardware. However, as I explained in my other post, we realized that speed is just one side of the benefit. The very nature of massive computing power, as well as massive memory available, has made certain carefully crafted algorithm obsolete. More things are certainly cooking in nexiwave. More news to come on this front soon.

The whole CUDA Review can be found here:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/newsletters/web/CUDA_Week_in_Review_June_18_10.html

We are featured on GPGPU.org

2010-06-04T03:56:00.000-07:00

The folks at GPGPU.org has been nice enough to feature us on their frontpage (so far, at least): http://gpgpu.org

A big thank-you from nexiwave!

Annoucing GPU Powered nexiwave 2.0

2010-05-22T06:42:00.000-07:00

We are proudly announcing that nexiwave has completed the GPU component of nexiwave's Speech Indexing service. nexiwave is gradually migrated its decoding clusters to a GPU centric cluster, due to the great cost-saving effect.

This is after over six months of planning, coding and testing. The speed improvement is nearly 75% relative to previous speed.

For more information, contact us at info@nexiwave.com

Automatic Media Uploader is now available

2010-04-27T10:22:00.000-07:00

We have published a tool called "Automatic Media Uploader". The tool is quite straightforward, we think. It simply:

monitors a local dictionary every 10 minutes.
uploads any media files found in the directory (if they have not been uploaded yet.

It is still beta. It can be downloaded from:
http://www.nexiwave.com/static/downloads/AutomaticMediaUploader.zip

Audio Search API v2

2010-04-27T10:17:00.000-07:00

We have released version 2.0 of our Audio Search API. Highlights are:

Post local files as SOAP attachment. This is much needed, since not everyone knows or wants to setup a server.
"multi" version of nearly all requests. All requests are now equipped with a batch version. For example, instead of adding files one by one, there is multiAddExt, which can be used to add (or upload) many audio/media files at once.

There were quite some other improvements. For more details, access the api doc here: http://www.nexiwave.com/PC-NG-AA/api/nexiwave.audio.search.SaaS.api.pdf

Audio Search SaaS API published

2009-12-12T03:29:00.000-08:00

We have published our Audio Search SaaS API. In nutshell, these are the API calls:

add: send audio/media to us
search
getTranscription
delete
lookup

For general info, visit: http://nexiwave.com
For detailed API document: http://www.nexiwave.com/PC-NG-AA/api/nexiwave.audio.search.SaaS.api.pdf
For wsdl file: http://search.nexiwave.com//AudioSearch/services/SearchService?wsdl

Audio search

2009-11-23T08:22:00.000-08:00

I am happy to announce that we will release our next generation audio search focused application very soon. For those inpatient, you can already access our search focused site here: http://search.nexiwave.com. This application will be populated to nexiwave.com very soon.

Why search? The ability to quickly locate information in a large archive is really what the user wanted. Anyway, we have renamed our core feature "Conversation Search" to "Audio Search".

What we provide? Here's the tagline: nexiwave is a SaaS platform for searching audio. we find the exact location of spoken words in your audio files.

So, in details, this is what we do:

Target audience: developers who interested in having audio search functions
How: 1. You add/delete your audio files to your account(s) in our SaaS platform. 2. When a search happens, you invoke our search API; 3. We return you the matching points in your audio files.

Anyone can sign up now

2009-05-31T19:34:00.001-07:00

One big step ahead for nexiwave: after so much hard work, we have decided to open up registratin and anyone can sign up and conduct conference call for free now. Feel free to go to nexiwave.com to sign up your very own account. You will receive free conference calling and all of our services.

Bear in mind that we are still improving varous aspects of our services, but we are doing our best.

nexiwave at MIT Sloan Conference

2009-04-19T21:17:00.000-07:00

Our sponsorship of Sloan sales conference was definitely worth it. I received a significant number of inquiries surrounding our technology and services. Most questions were around NexiCall, a service that allows users to search their phone calls in text. This was expected. Our initial market research demonstrated a strong value-add for professionals in Sales. We plan to conduct further studies to understand and quantify the impact to Sales professionals.

Ease-of-use and accuracy were the focus of most questions. Most people said it would nice if NexiCall could be a set-and-forget service; but, they seemed to agree that this is a useful service and would definitely would give it a try. I look forward to more registrations.

Sponsoring MIT Sloan Sales Conference

2009-04-15T07:58:00.000-07:00

nexiwave is now a technology sponsor of MIT Sloan Sales Conference. The Sloan Sales Conference is really an awesome event. Besides all the great sessions, just for the fact of networking with industry peers is a great opportunity. As a technology sponsor, nexiwave is giving out a special promo code for anyone who goes to MIT Sloan Sales Conference. Everyone should sign up for this event: http://www.sloansalesconference.com/

The reason of sponsoring? We think our product, NexiCall, is a great fit for sales person. Our market survey showed that a salesperson makes 20 to 50 phone calls every single day. With this amount of content, it is amazing that most sales person still has to rely a lot on pen and paper to track those content.

With NexiCall, our speech-to-text technology allows a salesperson to easily search within any of their past phone calls. Think about how many lost sales you can prevent because of those broken promises.