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, 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.