ASR seamlessly integrates with AppTek’s hybrid MT software for the most accurate broadcast and telephony transcription and translation

 McLean, VA (May 25, 2010) – AppTek, a leader in human language technology (HLT), announced the addition of Farsi and Urdu automated speech recognition (ASR) engines to its PlainSpeech™ platform. The enhanced ASR engine also processes several other key languages such as Arabic and English, and is compatible for use with machine translation, providing a complete solution for customers without integration costs or complex development. AppTek’s PlainSpeech Farsi and Urdu Broadcast and PlainSpeech Farsi Telephony engines are available to commercial customers and to the U.S. Government through AppTek’s GSA schedule.   

PlainSpeech Farsi telephony is a unique offering in the language technologies market because it is specifically engineered for the challenging content of unscripted natural language, dialect, noise and other aspects of non-broadcast environments. PlainSpeech Farsi and Urdu Broadcast are designed for news-oriented content from either television or radio and it readily processes broadcasts that include news, multi-speaker roundtable discussions and debates and even open-air interviews outside of the studio. 

Deployed for use in several commercial and government applications, as well as major commercial interactive voice response (IVR) programs, AppTek’s ASR technology has a proven track record of providing accuracy and speed, especially with dialects and challenging conversational environments. AppTek’s Farsi ASR technology is the industry’s first solution to have been developed in parallel   with a Hybrid Machine Translation  system for one platform that  can be seamlessly deployed  for many  translation,  knowledge discovery, multilingual information retrieval and  automated media monitoring.  

“The benefits of the enhanced ASR engine go beyond traditional uses, as we are able to provide customers with mobile communications,” said Steve Cook, CTO at AppTek. “By utilizing the ASR engine through handheld devices, users are able to reap the benefits of the translation software where it makes the greatest impact, out in the field.” 

Benefits afforded by the Farsi and Urdu ASR engines include:

• Engines that perform well on any type of dialogue
• Dialect adaptive engines that do not miss colloquial speech
• The flexibility to use the ASR on the platform that best meets the need - a laptop, a server or a handheld device
• A lower cost of ownership and greater accuracy from day one  

For more information on the enhanced ASR engine or any of AppTek’s other leading human language technology products, please visit: www.apptek.com.   

ABOUT APPTEK

AppTek, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, is a developer of human language technology products with a complete suite for text and speech (voice) processing and recognition. The company also leads major research and development efforts to further the advancement in the field of developing better methods and technologies in the field of HLT. AppTek's product offerings include machine translation (MT) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) for a growing list of more than 23 languages; multilingual information retrieval with query and topic search capabilities; name-finding applications; and integrated suites providing ASR and MT in media monitoring of broadcast and telephony speech as well as handheld and wearable speech-to-speech translation devices. The company has language professionals and computer scientists in offices around the world. For more information visit: www.apptek.com. 

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