You've probably never heard of a vendor called Autonomy. You'll soon be reaping the benefits of its wares soon.
Autonomy sells software for finding needles in information haystacks.
The company says it goes beyond mere search-engine status by using sophisticated algorithms to categorize and link content to help users find just the information they need. Now it's extending that to the voice world, and this could be big. The company just started shipping a new application, called iVoice, that is aimed at letting users store, search and manipulate all manner of voice-based files. It's light years ahead of the typical speech recognition software on the market today. This means that, using Autonomy's advanced search abilities, you can now sift through stored voice information the same way you can with documents on the Web.