The Quaero program is presenting demonstrations at the Futur en Seine, a digital world festival organized by Cap Digital in Paris (June 14-24, 2012). Each year this festival shows the latest digital innovations to French and international professionals and to the general public.

For the Quaero program, Vocapia Research is supplying and improving speech processing solutions for Web data such as news channels, podcasts, and lectures, covering 11 European languages as well as Arabic and Chinese. Vocapia provides software for audio segmentation, language identification, speaker diarization, and speech-to-text conversion.

Vocapia's speech technologies are used by Quaero partners such as France-Telecom (video access on web portals), Technicolor (personalized video content), Yacast (media monitoring), Exalead (multimedia search engine) and Bertin Technologies (media mining).

Futur en Seine 2012

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.