Vocapia Research announces the availability of speech-to-text transcription for the Portuguese language as part of the VoxSigma software suite. The transcription system targets a range of broadcast and webdata in European Portuguese, with a 65k word vocabulary. Developments for a version of the system targeting Brazilian Portuguese are underway, along with several other languages. By the end of 2013, it is planned to cover at least another five languages in the VoxSigma suite (Bulgarian, Finnish, Romanian, Turkish, Ukranian).

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.