Vocapia Research announces the availability of speech-to-text transcription for the Portuguese language as part of the VoxSigma software suite. The transcription system targets a range of broadcast and webdata in European Portuguese, with a 65k word vocabulary. Developments for a version of the system targeting Brazilian Portuguese are underway, along with several other languages. By the end of 2013, it is planned to cover at least another five languages in the VoxSigma suite (Bulgarian, Finnish, Romanian, Turkish, Ukranian).

All these languages are offered as a standalone software and via Vocapia's web service.

Vocapia Research is a French R&D company and software publisher with over 20 years of experience in providing leading edge speech technologies 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 decades of research at LISN, with which there is a privileged partnership. Joint systems developed with LISN have achieved top ranks in national and international challenges on speech-to-text transcription. Located at the heart of the science innovation cluster of Paris Saclay, France, Vocapia Research is a leader in developing and adapting AI-based solutions for both civil and defence applications. These applications include audio and audiovisual data mining (broadcast and web data, telephone speech), production of subtitles, OSINT and COMINT, and the analysis of aeronautical communications (air traffic control, voice command). 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.