Vocapia is proud to be coordinating the EU European Defence Fund 2021 project
ALADAN. ALADAN, Ai-based LAnguage technology development framework for
Defence ApplicatioNs, was one of the projects selected in the Open call
dedicated to SMEs for development of innovative and future-oriented defence
solutions. The project officially started December 1, 2022 and will run for
42 months. The project partners are 4 SMEs from 4 EU counties, embarking on
a new collaboration with complementary expertise:
- Vocapia Research (Coordinator, France): Develop novel AI based training and adaptation tools for spoken language technologies.
- Crowdee (Germany): Improved strategies for data collection and annotation.
- Lingea (Czech Republic): Contribute to novel AI-based models and tools for translation of speech and text.
- Ianus Consulting (Cyprus): Provide expertise, lead use case studies and user advisory board.
The project will design and develop a disruptive framework of development for
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based language solutions for defence
applications. Four language technologies will be addressed: spoken language
identification, speech recognition, spoken term search, and text and speech
translation. The novel framework, Open-Domain Training for In-Domain Target
(ODT-IDT) will primarily rely on the use of multidomain and selected
open-source data for training while targeting in-domain data, using only a
small amount of application-specific data for validation. The ambitious
project aims to substantially reduce the costs (time and financial) of
developing language technologies for military applications, thereby
drastically reducing the barriers for their wider uptake.
Aladan public web site
About Vocapia Research
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.
