Vocapia Research announces that Vocapia 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.

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 Union 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.