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title: The Grammer of Sound
date: "2003-05-16T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 909
description: I discovered Fast-Talk's technology that enables searching sound files for specific text. It allows you to find spoken words or lyrics, like locating the word 'Dil' within a library of Hindi songs, using phonetic indexing.
keywords: [fast-talk, audio search, speech-to-text, phonetic indexing, sound retrieval]
---

[The Grammer of Sound](http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_harney043003.asp). (Free registration required.) Fast-Talk has created a product which can search sound files for text. So you can type "Dil" to find all Hindi songs having the word.