Vocapia Research announces the availability of two additional
languages, Polish and Greek, in the VoxSigma speech-to-text software
suite. The transcription systems target a range of broadcast and
webdata. The Polish support comes with a 400k word vocabulary to
handle the large variety of inflected forms arising from conjugation
and declension. As for the Russian language, pronunciation modeling
accounts for the contextual forms of consonants which can be plain
(also called hard) or palatalized (also called soft). For the Greek
language, the recognition vocabulary explicitly models pronunciation
variants for frequent foreign words. The language coverage of the
VoxSigma suite is expanding regularly. The following languages are
currently available: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, English,
French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. All
these languages are offered as a standalone software and via Vocapia's
web service.
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.