Edward Campbell. 2011 National Medal of Technology and innovation to Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Breyer also sits on the board of BBN, a Verizon spinoff with roots in the early development of the Internet.

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BBN's launched Podzinger in January 2006, much to the surprise of TVEyes, which was a BBN customer at the time.

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Indeed, there are at least three upstarts, TVEyes , BBN and Autonomy (via Blinkx ) that already offer full text audio-search services.

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TVEyes used BBN's speech-to-text tools as one of its sources of transcripts for tveyes.com, podscope.com and the company's enterprise offerings (it has several companies from which it aggregates transcripts and compares them).

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Alex Laats , president of the Delta Division of BBN and of Podzinger, said that the company is poised to outgrow Podscope because the BBN text transcripts are more relevant for searchers than the audio and video clips shown by Podscope.

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