Vocapia is participating in the EC project Kristina "A Knowledge-Based Information
Agent with Social Competence and Human Interaction Capabilities". The project
is funded under the ICT Research and Innovation action Multimodal and Natural
Computer Interaction of the European Union Horizon 2020 research
programme. Kristina started in March 2015 and will run for a
period of 3 years.
The main objectives of the Kristina project are to carry out research in order
to develop technologies for a human-like socially competent and communicative
agent running on mobile communication devices that serves as a trusted information
provider and mediator for questions related to basic care and healthcare. The
targeted population are migrants, who face language and cultural barriers in
their host countries.
Vocapia will work on developing speech technologies that will be used in a
mobile, multimodal agent able to conduct an informed, flexible spoken language
dialogue with the user. The agent will be capable of understanding and
correctly interpreting the concerns of the user expressed by a combination of
facial, gestural and verbal signals in varied, culturally influenced
circumstances. The technologies will be validated in a series of use cases,
for which prolonged trials will be carried out to assess the prototype marking
the termination of a software development cycle. The subjects will be a
representative number of migrants recruited from the migration circles
identified as especially in need in two European countries: elderly Turkish
migrants and their relatives; and short term Polish care-giving personnel in
Germany; and North African migrants in Spain.
Vocapia's partners in Kristina are:
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain;
- Sociedad Española de Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria, Spain;
- Almende BV, Netherlands;
- Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece;
- University of Augsburg, Germany;
- Universität Tübingen, Germany;
- Universität Ulm, Germany;
- Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Kreisverband Tübingen, Germany.
Project website:
kristina-project.eu
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.