Innsbruck, Austria, November 18, 2011: playence, the leader in contextualized access to multimedia content, today announced that the company has entered commercial partnership with UK-based Unthinkable Consulting, the leader in realizing the potential in digital communication technology.

Vienna/Innsbruck, Austria, November 17, 2011: SAIL LABS Technology, one of the world's leading speech technology solution providers, and playence, the leader in contextualized access to multimedia content, today announced a partnership to offer leading edge technology in multimedia information retrieval.

playence today announced the formation of the corporate Advisory Board to help steer the rapid international growth of the company. Among the members are counted thought business leaders from diverse industries and backgrounds.

The board will provide valuable perspective and counsel to the executive team at playence in the areas of business development, market trends operations and financing. The advisors include:

playence, the leader in contextualized access to multimedia content, today announced that the European Commission has awarded funding to playence for collaborative R+D work in multimedia annotation and search.

The thirty-month project, known as "Task-oriented search and content annotation for media production" (TOSCA-MP), has been granted 3.547.000 million Euros, and aims at developing user-centric content annotation and search tools for professionals in networked media production and archiving (i.e. television, radio, online). The project work will start on October 1st, 2011 with a kick-off meeting in Graz (Austria).