US Army Selects Voci to Prototype Automated Language Recognition System

Voci Technologies has been selected by the U.S. army to develop a prototype system to perform language identification of six target languages in real time, and in a single pass. The languages are Arabic, English, Farsi, Iraqi Arabic, Pashto, and Urdu.

The Voci system will be a pre-processor for automatic translation of the target languages into English. It will identify the language spoken for automated translation systems to be correctly configured to decode the speech. Fast identification and translation of languages is becoming a critical component of the U.S. army warfighter program.

Voci will leverage language identification technology in existing Voci products that address call center and text analytics applications, and all other business intelligence applications seeking to extract insights from big data. The benefits envisioned for commercial applications include automatic routing of calls based on the language of the caller and automating the selection of the speech recognition models for speech-to-text conversion based on each caller's language.