2010-06-08 12:39:03 -

MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/08/10 -- 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, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Albanian, Dutch, Turkish 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 on a server or PC, as we are also able to provide it to customers as a Smartphone application," 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."



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. 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.



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