AppTek Announces Enhanced PlainSpeech (TM) Automated Speech Recognition Engine for Farsi

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

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AppTek, a leader in human language technology (HLT), today announced the availability of its enhanced automated speech recognition (ASR) engine for Farsi. The enhanced ASR engine also processes several other key languages such as Arabic and Spanish, and is compatible for use with machine translation, providing a complete solution for customers without integration costs or complex development. AppTek’s PlainSpeech Broadcast and PlainSpeech Telephony engines are available to commercial customers and the U.S. Government through AppTek’s GSA schedule.

“The benefits of the enhanced ASR engine go beyond traditional uses, as we are able to provide customers with mobile communications”

PlainSpeech 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 nuances of non-broadcast environments. PlainSpeech Broadcast is 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 federal government applications and major commercial interactive voice response (IVR) programs across the world, AppTek’s ASR technology has a proven track record of providing industry leading accuracy and speed. AppTek’s ASR technology is the industry’s first solution to employ Farsi transcription and translation in one platform, which can be utilized for many leading-edge machine translation and multilingual information retrieval projects, including media monitoring where it adjusts to changes in dialect and language in real-time to improve speed and accuracy.

“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 enhanced ASR engine 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 automatic speech recognition and machine translation 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.