You watch. Your computer listens.

Developers from Google's research laboratory presented a paper (PDF) about interactive television applications that leverage ambient audio analysis at the Euro Interactive Television conference last week. The research paper, which describes a system for providing contextually relevant web content for television consumers, received the best paper award. The described system uses a computer microphone to analyze the audio being emitted by a television, and uses that data to determine what show the user is watching. The system can then provide the user with web content that relates to the show…

Read this article from Ars Technica

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