Vocapia Research announces that Vocapia and LIMSI (CNRS) technologies have been ranked first in the Dutch NBEST ASR benchmark tests (PDF). The 2008 N-Best (Northern and Southern Dutch Benchmark Evaluation of Speech recognition Technology) project of the Dutch-Flemish Stevin program organized a benchmark evaluation in large vocabulary speech recognition for the Dutch language. The evaluation was conducted by TNO Human Factors Soesterberg, the Netherlands in cooperation with Spex in Nijmegen. The performance of speech transcription for two tasks, Broadcast News and Conversational telephone speech, was assessed for both varieties of Dutch.

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.