Hi, everyone! My name is Mike Speriosu and I was the main developer of a set of TV search improvements in SnapStream 6.1 that involve language. I recently finished my doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin where I worked on problems at the intersection of human language and computer science, and was lucky enough to join the SnapStream development team a few months ago.

Products like SnapStream are part of an ongoing trend in technology to help people interact with each other and with computers using their most advanced and expressive mode of communication: language. After working on a variety of linguistic and software problems in academia, I was very eager to apply my skills to a real-life product that could benefit from more linguistic intelligence.

One of the most compelling features of SnapStream's TV media monitoring technology has always been its ability to search recordings and send alerts based on what’s said on TV, and now recording and searching closed caption data work better than ever.

Next week, we're heading to the Big Apple to showcase our TV monitoring technology at Content and Communications World (CCW). Many broadcast folks refer to this hallmark event as the NAB of the East Coast. Since NAB in April, SnapStream's engineers have been diligently working to launch SnapStream 6.0 and tons of new capabilities.

Whether you're a current user or considering SnapStream for the first time, you'll find that everything in the new version helps to enrich your production workflow for recording, searching, clipping and repurposing TV content.

SnapStream is proud to announce that we’ve partnered with Australian digital media specialists Digistor to help introduce our TV search solution to Australia. We feel working together with Digistor is a big step forward in our company’s expansion.

TV Monitoring in Canadian Government

We're looking forward to showcasing new SnapStream 6.0 next week at GTEC, Canada's largest government technology event. SnapStream will be at booth 1112 for the tech exhibition, which spans October 8 and 9 at the Ottawa Convention Centre.

Just like in the United States, various arms of the Canadian government rely on SnapStream, because it provides an easy and affordable way to monitor TV coverage for public information purposes. You can record and archive important TV coverage, search for TV mentions, create unlimited TV clips and ultimately, share those clips with others.

Introducing SnapStream 6.0, a new generation of TV monitoring technology that's inspired by your versatile workflows and needs. This fresh release of SnapStream delivers an array of powerful new tools that will expand your capabilities when working and collaborating with TV.

Multi-viewer: Play 4 TV channels side by side

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It's official: SnapStream's new iPad app has arrived and it's now available in the App Store! Go get your hands on it and start taking SnapStream with you on the go. The app brings the power of SnapStream's core TV monitoring capabilities to your fingertips, wherever you may be, from the convenience of your tablet.

Search and browse your TV library

Meet SnapStream's 2013 interns!

From left to right — Heather: I make pretty reports. Andrew: I code in flip-flops. Nick: I play with DALs. Yuva: I’m an Excel Ninja. Clint: I try to not break things.

There’s a running joke here that SnapStream somehow doesn’t qualify as a real company. They even made t-shirts that assert as much:

And, at first glance, it almost seems like it could be true.

Recently, I attended the Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers (TAMIO) conference in College Station, TX. There was one session that really grabbed my attention, it was the session amazingly named: “Better than beer money! 101 ways to spend your PEG funds.” Based on the reaction and conversation that I heard regarding this session, I knew that this was one that I definitely wanted to attend!

What are PEG Funds?

PEG funds are simply funds that are provided to a local government to help support their public access channel(s). These funds can be easily applied to capital expenditures for the channel, for items such as cameras, lights, audio equipment and so forth. The main stipulation for the use of the funds is that they have to be used for broadcasting and running the channel. So, what other projects could these funds be used for? SnapStream?

What's new in 5.10?

People have different news consumption habits. Some like to read and some like to watch.

In SnapStream 5.10, the choice is yours. Monitor TV by watching, reading, or a combo of both, thanks to the newest component of the Web Player: the auto-scrolling transcript.

In the new release, we have re-imagined and re-designed the Web Player to provide a more interactive TV monitoring experience. We also improved TV Search to make running advanced searches simpler and easier.

Because we're founded and based in Houston, SnapStream is very excited to help sponsor the Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers (TAMIO) 2013 Annual Conference, being held June 6 and 7 in College Station, TX.

Lunch and Learn with SnapStream

TAMIO will bring together more than 100 public communicators from cities across Texas to exchange information and ideas. In support of TAMIO's mission, which addresses "the increasingly complex role of public information in municipal government," SnapStream is hosting a lunch presentation on Thursday, June 6.

TV Monitoring for City Government

One of the most critical responsibilities of any public information professional is media monitoring, which largely consists of tracking television news coverage.

But hey, for a small department, TV monitoring can consume a lot of your human resources, or eat up your budget with clipping services. That's where SnapStream's technology provides the best of both worlds.