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, August 18, 2008: SAIL LABS Technology, one of the world's leading innovators in the field of speech technology has been selected to present “CAVA” (Continuous Automatic Vocabulary Adaptation) at SpeechTEK 2008, the world’s biggest speech technology conference and exhibition, at the New York Marriott Marquis.
Mark Pfeiffer, Vice President Business Development & Communications at SAIL LABS Technology, has been selected to speak: “We are honored to have been chosen to present our latest ground-breaking development - CAVA (Continuous Automatic Vocabulary and language model Adaptation). CAVA is a framework that automatically adapts and changes automatic speech recognition (ASR) language models over time to current affairs. The motivation behind developing a framework like this was to be able to respond to dynamic environments: Speech recognition systems age over time as ASR remains the same and "currently used" vocabularies change; i.e. people, places and words are introduced into the current vocabulary or fade away over time,” said Mr. Pfeiffer. “A current example is the South Ossetia conflict: most language models would not have had the places or acting people of this war included in the vocabulary. With CAVA - within a short period - these would have been added automatically without manual intervention by the user. CAVA is the result of us listening to the needs of our clients, who heavily rely on having an easy to operate system that gives them access to current Open Source Information (OSINF) from around the world in many languages. With CAVA and the other SAIL LABS Systems, they can now focus even more on their mission, which is gathering and analysing OSINF and turning it into actionable intelligence."
“We have developed CAVA with the vision of creating a technology to allow for long-term, unsupervised adaptation of a system deployed in the real-world. SpeechTEK is the perfect venue to share this with our industry and our technology expertise with other high-profile experts and a wide range of organizations,” concluded Mark Pfeiffer.
“CAVA” is scheduled in TRACK C: ADVANCED SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES SYMPOSIUM (session C201-Natural Language Processing) on Tuesday, August 19.
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.
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