One of the main features that was announced today by AWS is the video indexing service. The Microsoft Audio Video Indexing Service (MAVIS) is the technology behind the new feature that_uses_speech recognition technology developed at Microsoft Research to enable searching of audio and video files with speech. Additionally, MAVIS automatically generates closed captions and keywords which can increase accessability and discoverability of audio and video files with speech content. MAVIS is available as a cloud service running on the Windows Azure platform. Search audio for spoken words – MAVIS generates a binary file which can be searched in Microsoft SQL server using full text search._The user experience is much like searching for text in documents and on the web as demonstrated on the MAVIS trial site. Users type in search terms, the result_is a set of links, which when clicked on, will start playing the audio_or video_from where those terms were spoken. Highly accurate audio search Results – MAVIS uses state of the art Deep Neural Net (DNN) based speech...

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