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.