After a year of relative quiet, the video search destination site Truveo is launching a new service that uses speaker identification technologies to help its users find their favorite celebrities on camera. Facebook members can access the app here; where you’ll see how the combination of a voice biometrics, video search and social networking creates the ultimate resource for a person who wants to home in on videos that should interest them – either because they feature their favorite stars, politicians or personalities, or because their “friends” have recently viewed them, as well as the ability to have Facebook notify a user when it has discovered a relevant video clip.

You can watch a five minute video demonstration of the service here.

Truveo was acquired by AOL back in 2006 and had a major “relaunch” in April of 2009, as discussed by Opus Research’s Greg Sterling in this article in Search Engine Land. It has been locked in competition with the likes of Blinkx, Google Video and to some extent YouTube while, at the same time, it has powered the video search capabilities of several other branded Web sites. Bringing the precision of speaker identification into the video search and discovery realm is a nice touch that should result in a better user experience as video expands into social networking and mobile realms.

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