The high performance of Vocapia Research's speech-to-text technology has once again been demonstrated on the ASR benchmark task of Evalita 2011 (Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian). In the Evalita ASR task, systems were required to transcribe audio sequences from the Italian Parliament. Vocapia's VoxSigma solution makes use of specific language models which are particularly well suited to parliamentary speeches. The Vocapia state-of-the-art system obtained top-notch results with a word accuracy of 95%.

Vocapia Research, founded in July 2000, is an R&D company and software publisher developing and providing leading edge speech technologies and solutions for many languages, including most major European languages as well as Arabic, Mandarin, and Russian. The Vocapia Research VoxSigma^® software suite uses advanced language technologies such as language identification, speech recognition, and speaker identification to transform raw audio and audiovisual data into structured and searchable XML documents. This technology relies on over 25 years of research at LIMSI-CNRS, with which there is a priviledged partnership. Joint systems developed with LIMSI have achieved top ranks in national and international challenges of speech-to-text transcription. The most common applications of the VoxSigma software suite are audio and audiovisual data mining (broadcast data, podcasts, call center data), media monitoring, and media asset management. Vocapia Research is located in the scientific pole of the Saclay Plateau, France. Readers who wish to get more information about Vocapia Research are invited to check out the Vocapia Research website or use the contact information page http://www.vocapia.com/contact.