Vocapia Research announced that its technology is now used by the Exalead company to automatically transcribe audiovisual documents for the web site of the French Presidency (http://www.elysee.fr). Automatic speech recognition allows users to search for and locate specific words in all of the audiovisual documents in the web archive, and to play the audio at the precise time the words were spoken, i.e. enabling users to search video content as they do with text content. All the documents are also fully accessible using Voxalead, an Exalead technology demonstrator, allowing everyone to search through the speeches according to subjects of interest.

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.