Vocapia will participate at the Quaero event in Paris on March 28th. Quaero is
a research and industrial innovation program aiming to develop technologies
for the automatic analysis and classification of multimedia and multilingual
documents. After 5 years of research and innovation, the Quaero consortium is
presenting the program results and perspectives as illustrated by interactive
demonstrations in the main application domains, as well as a scientific
workshop covering recent advances in the main technology domains of the
program.
Vocapia will be demonstrating the latest version of the VoxSigma sofware suite
which is offered as a Web service via a REST API. This service allows
customers to quickly reap the benefits of regular improvements to our
technology and take advantage of additional features offered by the online
environment. Vocapia's service offer also provides support for customized
models to suit specific client needs.
The functionalities include speech-to-text transcription for both telephone
data and broadcast data, language identification, and speech-text
synchronization (also referred to as speech-text alignment). It currrently
supports 14 languages including Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Finnish,
German, Greek, Italian, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and
Spanish.
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.