TiVo Partners with Sky to Launch Voice Search
March 22 2017 - 4:24AM
Business Wire
Europe’s leading entertainment company, Sky,
chooses TiVo to deliver its latest innovation, voice search, to
customers
TiVo Corporation (NASDAQ: TIVO), a global leader in
entertainment technology and audience insights, today announced
that TiVo and Sky, Europe’s leading entertainment company, have
joined forces to deliver voice search for Sky’s next-generation
box, Sky Q. TiVo is providing Sky Q with a natural language,
voice-based search solution, making it quicker and easier for Sky Q
customers to find the content they are looking for.
The solution delivered by TiVo lets consumers use their voice to
search for digital entertainment across linear TV and video on
demand (VOD). By implementing Conversation Services on Sky Q, Sky
is making it easier for customers to discover entertainment, sport
and movies by providing a conversational experience through
language recognition and naturally spoken responses.
“With Sky Q, we continue to innovate and bring fantastic new
features to our customers, who we know are watching more TV than
ever before. We want to make it even faster and easier for them to
search, discover and watch TV,” said Luke Bradley-Jones, Sky’s
brand director of TV and content products. “That’s why we’ve
introduced voice search. With the technology delivered by TiVo, we
are enabling our customers to use natural, voice-based queries to
find new and favourite TV to enjoy.”
The solution is built on TiVo’s knowledge graph engine, a
dynamic knowledge base of entertainment metadata, capable of
understanding trends and conversations. Updated continuously via
data ingestion and news crawlers, the knowledge graph includes
information produced and curated by hundreds of content editors,
predictive search results, and behavioral indicators from social
networks.
“With more and more content choices and a great range of
entertainment available across TV, TiVo is helping partners like
Sky provide the best user experience whilst driving content
consumption,” said Matt Berry, senior vice president and general
manager, advanced search and recommendations, TiVo. “We are pleased
to extend our long-standing relationship with Sky. This
implementation further reinforces the value of TiVo’s product
portfolio in bringing the latest capabilities to pay-TV homes
across Europe.”
About Sky
Sky is Europe's leading entertainment company, serving 22
million customers across five countries - UK, Ireland, Germany,
Austria and Italy. The company has annual revenues of £12 billion
and is Europe’s leading investor in television content with annual
programming spend of over £5 billion.
From exclusive partnerships with HBO and Showtime, to Sky’s own
original programming, Sky offers the best and broadest range of
content along with the best viewing experience to suit each and
every customer. Whether that’s through the multi-award winning next
generation box, Sky Q, or Sky’s contract-free online streaming
service, NOW TV, customers have access to the latest movies, drama,
sports and kids entertainment wherever and whenever they like. This
is all supported by Sky’s best in class customer service.
Sky’s success is not just based on what the company does but how
it does it. Named as one of the Top 10 Green Companies in the World
by Newsweek, one of the world’s most recognised rankings of
business’s environmental performance, Sky ensures its responsible
business strategy is embedded right across the group.
Sky has over 30,000 employees and is listed as one of The Times
Top 50 employers for women. Sky is listed on the London Stock
Exchange (SKY).
About TiVo
TiVo Corporation (NASDAQ: TIVO) is a global leader in
entertainment technology and audience insights. From the
interactive program guide to the DVR, TiVo delivers innovative
products and licensable technologies that revolutionize how people
find content across a changing media landscape. TiVo enables the
world’s leading media and entertainment providers to deliver the
ultimate entertainment experience. Explore the next generation of
entertainment at tivo.com, forward.tivo.com or follow us on Twitter
@tivo or @tivoforbusiness.
Forward-looking Statement
All statements contained herein that are not statements of
historical fact, including statements that use the words “will” or
“is expected to,” or similar words that describe TiVo Corporation’s
or its management’s future plans, objectives or goals, are
“forward-looking statements” and are made pursuant to the
Safe-Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause the
actual results of TiVo Corporation to be materially different from
the historical results and/or from any future results or outcomes
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such
factors are further addressed in TiVo’s most recent report on Form
10-Q and other documents of TiVo Corporation, Rovi Corporation and
TiVo Solutions Inc. (formerly known as TiVo Inc.) on file with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov). TiVo
Corporation assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking
statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may
arise after the date of this release, except as required by
law.
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