The Dragon AudioMining SDK provides the unique capability to extract spoken word content from broadcast and telephony speech recordings.

Many organizations in markets such as legal, call recording, broadcast, and enterprise are looking for ways to leverage the information embedded in their spoken content assets. The Dragon AudioMining SDK allows developers to seamlessly integrate high accuracy XML speech indexing capabilities into any hardware or software environment.

The Dragon AudioMining SDK utilizes the same core speech recognition technologies that have powered the award-winning Dragon NaturallySpeaking family of speech recognition products for over a decade. Now this technology takes a groundbreaking new step with Nuance's introduction of the Dragon AudioMining SDK, compatible with both the Windows® 2000 and the Windows® XP operating systems. Other components of the Dragon AudioMining SDK include:

• AudioMining Runtime License Packs
  For deploying applications developed using the Dragon AudioMining SDK Development System.
• AudioMining Custom Vocabularies
  For increasing recognition accuracy in content specific to the legal, medical, financial and technology markets.

AudioMining SDK

• Catalogs broadcast and telephony speech content
• Comes complete with two acoustic models: Telephony and Broadcast
• Vocabulary Tool automatically customizes vocabularies for specific industries or topics, resulting in outstanding recognition
• Available transcript-alignment tool to automatically time stamp existing transcripts for proper synchronization with digitized content
• Unlimited number of speakers, unlimited length of time
• Recognizes "all words", not just keywords

AudioMining RunTime License Packs

• Each RunTime includes the Dragon AudioMining SDK and the Vocabulary Tool
• Silent Installer allows simple integration of runtime installation with OEM application installers

AudioMining Custom Vocabularies

• Pre-configured General and Medical vocabularies, including over 15 medical speciality vocabularies (radiology, pathology, etc.)
• Pre-configured vocabularies can be further fine tuned using the Vocabulary Tool to include organization-specific terms and proper names

Recommended System Requirements

• Intel® Pentium® III 500MHz or greater (or equivalent AMD processor). DSS will not install on a machine with a processor of less than 500MHz
• 256 MB RAM or higher
• Up to 2 GB is required for a full installation
• Windows® 2000, Windows® 2000 Advanced, Windows® 2003 Advanced Server, or Windows® XP.
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 5 or higher
• DVD-ROM drive required for installation

Dragon Audiomining SDK supports the following audio file types in both mono and stereo (8 kHz to 99 kHz):

• WAVE PCM
• MS ADPCM
• IMA ADPCM
• a-law
• mu-law
• VOX
• MP3