Michael Grotticelli of Broadcast Engineering reports, “Jinni, the maker of a new kind of ‘semantic’ video guide that spans television, tablets, smart phones and the Web, has signed content distributors Time Warner Cable and Vudu among seven new licensees on four continents. It replaces old grid-style video guides with a new intuitive, personalized user experience. The company’s new “natural language understanding” (NLU) discovery engine supports voice-activated video guides that understand natural human language. The Jinni NLU engine leverages the company’s ‘Entertainment Genome’ to interpret natural human speech and derives the underlying meaning to enable intuitive interaction between users and their TVs.” Read more