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According to a report in the Korea Times, Wednesday, South Korea's state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has developed speech-recognition software for use in IPTV systems. The software, which is intended to be installed in hard drive-equipped set-top boxes, has a passive vocabulary of over 500,000 words, according to ETRI officials who spoke to the newspaper, and will allow viewers to search for programs by, for example, saying the program's name or the name of one of its actors (note: ETRI claims that the software is 92% accurate).

--Company Showcases New Technologies at IBC

Korean MHP/tru2way specialist, Alticast, says that its AltiCaptor
tru2way middleware platform has been selected by Ambit
Microsystems for its digital cable set-top boxes, targeted at the North
American market (note: Alticast claims that AltiCaptor has been
deployed in over 5 million digital cable, satellite and terrestrial
receivers around the world). According to Alticast, it is working with
Ambit to bring two tru2way-enabled cable set-top boxes to market later
this year: one of the boxes will be a low-priced, single-tuner standard
definition device, and the other will be a high-performance, dual-tuner
HD DVR. "Ambit is pleased to work with Alticast to continue
delivering high-quality and competitive products to our valued cable