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Rovi Launches Personalized Discovery Solution

Rovi Corporation, a global leader in entertainment discovery, today launched Rovi Personalized Discovery Solution, aimed at increasing content consumption and delighting consumers with fast and relevant search capabilities, and a discovery experience that may be tailored to the needs and tastes of the individual viewer. The result of the combination of Rovi and recently acquired Veveo technologies, the new Personalized Discovery Solution includes voice-enabled, natural-conversation interaction, as well as a contextual and predictive search and recommendations engine.

"Given the near infinite stream of content available, the fundamental challenge for consumers -- and therefore a revenue opportunity for service providers that successfully address it -- is the ability to find relevant content quickly," said Colin Dixon, chief analyst & founder, nScreenMedia. "Rovi's hybrid approach to enable personalized discovery by blending quality, man-made data with its machine-learning Knowledge Graph is novel and has the potential to be a key part of the future discovery experience."

Rovi Personalized Discovery Solution's predictive prowess is powered by a unique blend of Rovi entertainment metadata -- a renowned and extensive international entertainment database with editorial content and images, in over 15 languages on five million+ TV programs, movies, celebrities, and more that is handcrafted by a team of Rovi editors -- and a dynamic Knowledge Graph that maintains information on more than 100 million entertainment-related entities drawn and verified from over 100,000 online sources. Rovi Knowledge Graph is constantly updating and learning more about the relationships between various entities, how these connections shift over time, and their relevance in various regions of the world. The combination of metadata and the Knowledge Graph is Rovi's 'entertainment brain' that helps enable search and recommendations relevancy, accuracy and speed.

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