Catalogue technologique

All content providers may be interested in the automatic characterization of the in-home audience. When personalization of video – either Video on Demand (VoD) or broadcast – or ads is targeted, these same providers will see an interest in having this module to help the automatic personalization of provided content.

The audience characterization module may also be used by end users to manage their own content at home. Furthermore, content providers and advertisers will be interested in the ‘level of attention’ information provided by the module.

Provided content personalization
Knowing what the audience is:

• VoD portals may be personalized and proper home pages may be displayed;
• Ads may be personalized;
• According videos and broadcast programs may be proposed.

• Music industry actors
• industrial laboratories interested in automatic music analysis

• Music description
• Music indexing
• Music analysis and creation

• Content Owners
• Studios
• Broadcasters
• Content distributors

Technicolor Sync Audio Watermarking allows studios and content owners

• to create more valuable and attractive content by delivering premium quality information
• to generate additional earnings through targeted ads, e-commerce and product placement alongside main screen content

Technicolor Sync Audio Watermarking allows broadcasters and content distributors

• to provide distinctive content and retain audiences
• to control complementary content on the 2nd screen within their branded environment
• to leverage real-time, qualified behavior metadata to better understand customers and deliver personalized content and recommendations

The targeted users and customers are the search engine actors, and all industrialists interested in document retrieval.

• Document retrieval
• Information recommendation
• Advertising

The targeted users and customers of language recognition technologies are actors in the multimedia and call center sectors, including academic and industrial organizations, as well as actors in the defense domain, interested in the processing of audio documents, and in particular if the collection of documents contains multiple languages.

A language identification system can be run prior to a speech recognizer. Its output is used to load the appropriate language dependent speech recognition models for the audio document.

Alternatively, the language identification might be used to dispatch audio documents or telephone calls to a human operators fluent in the corresponding identified language.

Other potential applications also involve the use of LID as a front-end to a multi-lingual translation system. This technology can also be part of automatic system for spoken data retrieval or automatic enriched transcriptions.

End-user application, Question-Answering is the easiest way to find information for everybody: ask the question as you want and obtain answers, not snippets or pages.

Search and find precise answers in any collection of texts, from the Web or any other source (voice recognition, optical character recognition, etc.), with eventual correction of the source text, ability to generate questions from generic requests, eventually a single word, ability to find similar questions and their answers, etc.

Monolingual and multilingual Question-Answering system. Languages: English, French (+ Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, with partners using the same API).

Ircamaudiosim allows the development of music recommendation based on music content similarity. It can therefore be used for any system (online or offline) requiring music recommendation, such as for the development of a recommendation engine for online music service or offline music collection browsing.

• Online music providers
• Online music portals
• Music players developers
• Music software developers

The targeted users and customers are the multimedia industry actors, and all academic or industrial laboratories interested in textual document processing.

• Textual and multimedia document processing

The targeted users and customers are all the Internet actors providing personalized services to their users, interested by integrating recommender systems that are more respectful of their privacy.

• Personalization
• Recommender systems

Everyone who has to deal with electronic document encoding of from the original source material and needs to consider the hierarchical structure represented in the digitized document.

• Industry
• Service
• Patrimony
• Administration