RAI Italian State Broadcaster Selects eMediaMonitor to Test Real Time Content Control Solutions

Innovative research project will provide RAI with a real time system to prevent offensive content reaching an unintended audience, Foul and obscene words will be detected and removed from the broadcast.

Vienna, Austria (PRWEB) April 16, 2008 -- The innovative research project will provide RAI with a real-time system to prevent offensive content reaching an unintended audience. The experimental platform can detect any foul or obscene word from any broadcast, live or pre-recorded. The real-time application creates a small delay in the transmission process and allows the home user to activate a filter on his decoder. Any offensive term to be replaced with a "beep" on his TV set.

eMediaMonitor are working closely with the RAI technical team based in Turin. The ability to remove foul and obscene language from broadcast content is seen to offer significant protection to a viewing and listening audience.

"Matching the requirements of RAI was only possible because of our advanced Pegasus architecture" said Dr Thomas Netousek, CEO of eMediaMonitor. "This deploys a real-time low latency audio and video mining application". The core technology is also being used in providing solutions for other markets. These range from real-time TV and Radio news content for use in the Financial Services Market to analysis work in call centres.

Dr Netousek commented further that "With the explosion of audio and video content on TV, Radio and the Web, it is essential to provide appropriate monitoring and control safeguards. The development work with RAI leads the way in delivering industry solutions".

About eMediaMonitor
eMediaMonitor headquartered in Vienna are a technology leader in providing services for Broadcast Monitoring, Audio/Video Search and Retrieval. eMediaMonitor systems are used in a wide range of applications allowing users access to both real-time and archive content. Specific market-based speech software delivers data and analysis for business intelligence.

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About RAI
RAI is the Italian public service broadcaster operating three terrestrial television channels and three radio channels in addition to several satellite and digital terrestrial offerings. Every day, millions of viewers and listeners enjoy the wide range of news and programmes.

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