Applications Technology (AppTek) has been recognized as a Star Performer by SpeechTech, the speech industry’s leading advocacy organization. AppTek was awarded for its contributions to a variety of automatic speech recognition areas including the advancement of automated closed captioning.
“We are very honored to be recognized in this way,” said Adam Sutherland, AppTek CEO. “We have been leading the way in speech recognition for over 15 years. This award is the culmination of a very successful 2017 – a year which was record-breaking for us in our commercial, government, academic and research achievements. All of which are due to our amazing team of scientists, engineers and customer outreach.”
AppTek’s proprietary ASR engines have been trained on thousands of hours of data and are customized for news and sports, entertainment and telephony. “We actually create a specifically adapted model for each customer,” said Steve Cook, AppTek CTO. “The news stations using our Live Closed Captioning Appliance each have their own ASR model for local vocabulary. The same is true for our telephony clients – not only do we have different models for insurance-related calls versus sales calls, we have specific models for insurance customer A versus insurance customer B.”
“2018 looks to be another banner year for AppTek,” said Sutherland. “Our continuing governmental work is a great foundation from which to continue to grow our efforts in broadcast, telephone, e-commerce and beyond.”
ABOUT APPTEK:
As a pioneer in automatic speech recognition, machine learning and artificial intelligence; AppTek partners with its customers to provide solutions focused on closed captioning and subtitling, call center content discovery and mobile intelligent voice agents. In today’s hyper-connected and data-rich marketplace, enterprises are seeking to drive revenue, save costs and increase productivity. Customers rely on AppTek to solve for these issues by delivering the market’s robust speech technology solutions focused on mining for business insights, ensuring compliance and delivering value across the enterprise. For more information, visit http://www.apptek.com.
AppTek.ai is a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies for automatic speech recognition (ASR), neural machine translation (NMT), natural language processing/understanding (NLP/U), large language models (LLMs) and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies. The AppTek platform delivers industry-leading solutions for organizations across a breadth of global markets such as media and entertainment, call centers, government, enterprise business, and more. Built by scientists and research engineers who are recognized among the best in the world, AppTek’s solutions cover a wide array of languages/ dialects, channels, domains and demographics.
