Vocapia Research is pleased to announce the addition of a beta version of a speech-to-text transcription system for broadcast data in Lithuanian to the VoxSigma^® transcription service. The Lithuanian system is one of several other European languages under development.

Vocapia continues to expand its language portfolio and expects to soon cover all European languages. Systems are currently under development for 10 languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, Hungarian, Latvian, and South American Spanish. Vocapia also continuously works on improving the accuracy and capabilities of its technologies (speech-to-text, speech-text alignment, keyword spotting, speaker diarization and language identification). Major releases are planned for the second quarter of 2014.

The VoxSigma service 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 16 languages including Arabic, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. In 2013 Vocapia's customers submitted over 2 million requests, processing 200000 hours of speech in 14 languages.

Vocapia Research is a French R&D company and software publisher with over 20 years of experience in providing leading edge speech technologies for many languages, including most major European 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 decades of research at LISN, with which there is a privileged partnership. Joint systems developed with LISN have achieved top ranks in national and international challenges on speech-to-text transcription. Located at the heart of the science innovation cluster of Paris Saclay, France, Vocapia Research is a leader in developing and adapting AI-based solutions for both civil and defence applications. These applications include audio and audiovisual data mining (broadcast and web data, telephone speech), production of subtitles, OSINT and COMINT, and the analysis of aeronautical communications (air traffic control, voice command). 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.