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 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.