Vocapia Research announced that its technology is now used by the Exalead company to automatically transcribe audiovisual documents for the web site of the French Presidency (http://www.elysee.fr). Automatic speech recognition allows users to search for and locate specific words in all of the audiovisual documents in the web archive, and to play the audio at the precise time the words were spoken, i.e. enabling users to search video content as they do with text content. All the documents are also fully accessible using Voxalead, an Exalead technology demonstrator, allowing everyone to search through the speeches according to subjects of interest.

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.