Nexidia, a software company tackling the growing problem of analyzing sounds and speech, has a unique answer to making sense of the growing amount of audio data: speed. The company has developed a "phonetic search engine" that can process the basic units of speech that comprise words, called phonemes. Instead of trying to analyze whole words, the company's technology can search audio recordings 50 times faster than their actual duration. Traditional speech-to-text systems can process files only four times faster than in real time.
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