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.