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Orsay - March 1, 2010

The Vecsys Research* VoxSigma® Software Suite provides round-the-clock automatic trancriptions of France 24 videos. On March 26th France 24 announced including this functionality in its high quality video player. The automatic transcripts are further processed for the extraction of keywords and combined with the search technology of Exalead, to enable automatic semantic indexation of the news 24 hours a day. This new functionality is available on the France 24 Lab (http://lab.france24.com).

About Vecsys Research

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.