<p>We describe the Informediatm News-on-Demand system.<br>News-on-Demand is an innovative example of indexing<br>and searching broadcast video and audio material by<br>text content. The fully-automatic system monitors TV<br>news and allows selective retrieval of news items based on<br>spoken queries. The user then plays the appropriate video<br>"paragraph". The system runs on a Pentium PC using<br>MPEG-I video compression and the Sphinx-II continuous<br>speech recognition system [6].</p>