Europe’s leading entertainment company, Sky, chooses TiVo to deliver
its latest innovation, voice search, to customers
Company Website:
https://www.tivo.com/
SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- (Business Wire)
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
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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
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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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Contacts:
Finn Partners
Ricca Silverio
+1-949-439-7869
tivoglobal@finnpartners.com
or
Sky
PR
Sarah El-Hadidy
Sarah.el-hadidy@sky.uk
Source: TiVo Corporation
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