The Quaero program is presenting demonstrations at the Futur en Seine, a digital world festival organized by Cap Digital in Paris (June 14-24, 2012). Each year this festival shows the latest digital innovations to French and international professionals and to the general public.

For the Quaero program, Vocapia Research is supplying and improving speech processing solutions for Web data such as news channels, podcasts, and lectures, covering 11 European languages as well as Arabic and Chinese. Vocapia provides software for audio segmentation, language identification, speaker diarization, and speech-to-text conversion.

Vocapia's speech technologies are used by Quaero partners such as France-Telecom (video access on web portals), Technicolor (personalized video content), Yacast (media monitoring), Exalead (multimedia search engine) and Bertin Technologies (media mining).

Futur en Seine 2012

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.