Turin, Italy and Bologna, Italy - Loquendo and Knowmark, a leader in Italy for automatic media monitoring, have signed an agreement to include Loquendo ASR in Knowmark’s BAS media monitoring platform. This partnership signals the launch of a system thatis unique in the world, able to process both speech and media content automatically and objectively, extracting keywords and identifying pieces of music, thanks to the integration of Loquendo Automatic Speech Recognition with Knowmark’s proprietary acoustic fingerprint technology.
A few examples of currently active services based on this brand-new Knowmark solution include a system for automatic song recognition, used in clubs and venues to monitor performance contents to ensure protection of composers’ royalties; a platform for 24/7 monitoring and automatic speech recognition of radio content (up to 60 broadcasters) to protect against copyright infringement; automatic monitoring of advertising content transmitted by the major national radio broadcasters, to check overcrowding and scheduling on behalf of the Italian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications (Autorità Garante nelle Comunicazioni).
"Thanks to the integration of Loquendo ASR, we were able to further automate our platform, thus enabling us to identify all one-off marketing events, such as announcements and promotions. We are proud that Knowmark and Loquendo, two Italian companies, have proved themselves able to compete so successfully in the advertising sector, a highly strategic market for the global economy and one which is increasingly demanding suitable methods for assessing its own effectiveness,” says Dario Amata, founder and CEO of Knowmark.
"The close collaboration between Knowmark and Loquendo has allowed us to realise the real potential of Loquendo ASR as well as to fully exploit its many features. In this way we have been able to guarantee a high recognition performance for this cutting edge system,” says Davide Franco, Loquendo chairman and CEO. “We are very pleased to be sharing in Knowmark’s success, with several platforms already on the market. This innovative solution will undoubtedly be of great interest and benefit to businesses and partners in a variety of sectors, such as broadcasters, investors in advertising, media centres, editors, copyright authorities, etc."
Loquendo ASR is available in the following 27 languages: U.S., U.K. & Australian English, Italian, French, Canadian French, American Spanish, Mexican, Colombian, Argentinian, Chilean & Castilian Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Russian, German, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Greek, Portuguese, Brazilian, Catalan, Valencian, Galician, as well as Mixed Language Castilian Spanish and Catalan
Loquendo ASR is available for desktop and server operating systems for Windows and several flavours of Linux, as well as for all major mobile and embedded platforms.
About Knowmark
Knowmark has been working in automatic content recognition with acoustic fingerprint technology for over a decade. Having collaborated with the main international research centres for some years, Knowmark has created its own platform. It has also tirelessly championed this technology in Italy and has been a true pioneer in the sector. Today, as well as the technology of Loquendo, Knowmark has integrated software into its platform able to distinguish music and speech automatically, achieving an extremely high level of automation in the recognition and classification of the content under analysis. Furthermore, Knowmark has created MIRA, a Personal Media Meter, the first device dedicated to audience analysis, able to provide the required information both on programme ratings and on associated marketing campaigns, in real time, offering a unique tool for the most up to date market research.
For more information, see www.knowmark.it.
About Loquendo
Awarded Speech Industry ‘Market Leader’ for the past four consecutive years, Loquendo provides a complete range of speech technologies for server, embedded and desktop solutions – in 30 languages with 71 voices, and constantly growing.
Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, and Loquendo Speaker Identification and Verification empower people to interact with technology in the most natural way possible – using their voice – creating a next-generation client experience while saving businesses millions each year. Also integrable via the Loquendo MRCP Server and VoiceXML and CCXML platform, Loquendo speech technologies power millions of calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets across the globe.
Loquendo TTS and ASR are also available as Loquendo Embedded Technologies, deployed in more than 14 million devices worldwide in embedded and mobile environments.
Loquendo is a Telecom Italia company headquartered in Turin, Italy, with offices in the US, UK, Spain, Germany and France, and a global network of partners.
For more info, and to hear Loquendo TTS for yourself, go to www.loquendo.com.