The Transcoder Service is a Ninja iSpace service which transforms data. It is responsible for transforming data into plain text, transcript, text summary, text outline, plain audio, audio summary, gsm audio, gsm summary, and skimmed audio. Transcript represents content that has been generated by doing speech recognition. Outline organizes a text summary into an outlined form, which is generated by using the talk spurts of the audio file. Plain audio may represent original audio or that which has been synthesized from a text email.
Audio summary is audio generated from the text summary.
Skimmed audio is audio that has had all pauses removed. The basic transformations from speech to text and text to speech use programs developed with IBM's speech recognizer and synthesizer software development kit, ViaVoice. The SRCL also has an annotation feature which allows key words and phrases to be tagged when the grammar is defined. Both the annotation and recognized phrase are returned to the application. This simplifies the task of parsing of the results for meaningful information.