At SAIL LABS Technology we provide our customers with innovative speech technology solutions. Our mission is Innovation in Understanding. Our passion is excellence.
SAIL LABS Technology is a leading global provider of speech recognition technology and was founded in 1999 in Vienna, Austria. We are one of the world’s leading innovators in the field of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and speech technology systems, creating cutting-edge software for speech and multimedia analysis solutions. In the area of OSINT actionable intelligence can readily be retrieved using our high-end software products. SAIL Labs develops technologies to mine multi-media data and text including the indexing of audio, video and text, automatic speech recognition (ASR), transcriptions in multiple languages, named entity detection as well as topic detection. Our solutions allow content based search in multi-media files, automatic summarization and visualization (GIS, Trend, Cluster, Relationship). SAIL LABS Technology supports commercial applications (e.g., news monitoring, broadcast news transcription and indexing) as well as government applications (e.g., public opinion monitoring, surveillance and intelligence gathering).
SAIL LABS’ personnel has a proven track record in the field of natural language processing, acoustic modeling, language modeling, and speech recognition algorithms. This is complemented by profound skills and knowledge in software development (including design, internationalization and integration of research technology into software products and components), as well as linguistics, mathematics and computer science.
Research on the analysis of cross-media and multi-media data was started as early as 2001 and has since become one of the prime areas of expertise within SAIL LABS.
Together with a global network of partners, we provide comprehensive solutions for vertical markets. Continual innovation at the leading edge of linguistic and IT research drives our vision of creating technologies that enable advanced language understanding capabilities.
Vienna, Austria, June 27, 2008: SAIL LABS Technology, a leading provider of speech technology solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the new German language feature for its award-winning Media Mining System. This highly accurate automatic speech transcription system takes the audio input from various sources and creates an indexed, summarized and searchable output in real-time.
This latest German language feature presents improvements in many dimensions. The vocabulary has been substantially extended to over 150.000 words, representing an increase of over 50% over the previous version. New and up-to-date people and organization names were added to the vocabulary to provide for excellent coverage of today's news. Together with an improved algorithm to handle compound-words - a phenomenon particularly important for the German language - this very large vocabulary greatly improves language coverage.
Special effort was spent on harmonization of spellings with regard to the different stages of the German orthography.
In technical terms the language model is comprised of information gathered over more than 20 years and based on close to 1 Billion words of text. These unprecedented numbers underline the data collection and R&D investments SAIL LABS makes in its quest for excellence.
“In addition to all the above innovations, the existing German Language Model Tool (LMT) data was extended in parallel to the German base feature and improvements to pronunciations (e.g. for names of persons) were made . Thus, not only the new German language-feature itself, but also all models built on top of it, using the LMT, will benefit from these enhancements”, says D.I. Gerhard Backfried, Head of Research.
Other available speaker independent language features from SAIL LABS include:
Each language is available with a Language Model Toolkit (LMT) enabling software developers and users to fine-tune the system's language capabilities to address issues such as dialect pronunciations, and to add new vocabulary. LMT workshops are held at SAIL LABS and around the world on request.
For inquiries of the new German Language Feature please contact sales@sail-technology.com.
About SAIL LABS Technology
SAIL LABS Technology (‘Speech-Artificial-Intelligence-Language-Laboratories’) is one of the world’s leading innovators in the field of speech technology, creating high-end software for speech and multimedia analysis solutions.
SAIL LABS Technology addresses the high-value speech technology markets of media indexing and media mining. Together with a global network of partners, SAIL LABS provides comprehensive solutions for vertical markets. Continual innovation at the leading edge of linguistic and IT research drives SAIL LABS’ vision of creating technologies that enable advanced language understanding capabilities.
For more information about SAIL LABS Technology, please visit www.sail-technology.com.
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