Vecsys Research
* announces that Vecsys Research and
LIMSI (CNRS) technologies have been
ranked first in the
Dutch
NBEST ASR benchmark tests (
PDF). The 2008 N-Best (Northern
and Southern Dutch Benchmark Evaluation of Speech recognition
Technology) project of the Dutch-Flemish Stevin program organized a
benchmark evaluation in large vocabulary speech recognition for the
Dutch language. The evaluation was conducted by TNO Human Factors
Soesterberg, the Netherlands in cooperation with Spex in Nijmegen. The
performance of speech transcription for two tasks, Broadcast News and
Conversational telephone speech, was assessed for both varieties of
Dutch.
Founded in July 2000, Vecsys Research is an R&D company
developing and providing leading edge speech technologies and
solutions for many languages, including Arabic, Dutch, English,
French, Greek, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
The Vecsys Research VoxSigma
® software suite uses
advanced language technologies such as language identification, speech
recognition, and speaker recognition to transform raw audio and
audiovisual data into structured and searchable XML documents. The
technology relies on over 25 years of research at LIMSI-CNRS, with
which there is a priviledge partnership.
The most common applications of VoxSigma software suite technology are
audio and audiovisual data mining (broadcast data, podcasts, call
center data), media monitoring, and media asset management.
Vecsys Research is located in Orsay, France.
Readers who wish to get more information about Vecsys
Research are invited to use the contact information form
http://vecsysresearch.com/contact.
