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.