Vocapia is participating in the EC project DANTE "Detecting and analysing
terrorist-related online contents and financing activities". The project is
funded under the FCT Innovation Action "Law Enforcement capabilities 2:
Detection and analysis of terrorist-related content on the Internet" of the
European Union Horizon 2020 research programme. DANTE started in September 2016
and will run for a period of 30 months.
The main objectives of the DANTE project are to carry out research and develop
technologies for more effective, efficient, automated data mining and analytics.
These activities will result in an integrated system to detect, retrieve,
collect and analyse huge amount of heterogeneous and complex multimedia and
multi-language terrorist-related contents, from both the Surface and the Deep
Web, including Dark nets.
Vocapia will work on developing speech and audio technologies to enable
detection, analysis and monitoring in unstructured audiovisual data, helping
investigators to classify documents and search into their content. In the
context of this project, Vocapia will focus on language identification and
code switching, acoustic event detection and speech-to-text transcription in
several languages, including Italian, Spanish, English and Portuguese.
Vocapia's partners in DANTE are:
- Engineering - Ingegneria Informatica Spa, Italy
- Expert System Iberia S.L.U., Spain
- CERTH - ITI, Greece
- Ciaotech S.r.l., Italy
- Centro Ricerche e Studi su Sicurezza e Criminalità, Italy
- PROMT GmbH, Germany
- United Technologies Research Centre Ireland Ltd., Ireland
- Agnitio S.L., Spain
- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria
- Trilateral Research & Consulting, United Kingdom
- Fundación Deusto - DeustoTech, Spain
- Pragsis Bidoop, Spain
- KU Leuven Centre for IT and IP Law - IMEC, Belgium
- Guardia Civil, Spain
- Polícia Judiciária, Portugal
- Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST), United Kingdom
- Ministero della Difesa - Arma dei Carabinieri - Comando Generale, Italy
Project website:
http://www.h2020-dante.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.