THE COMPANY

VECSYS was founded in 1979, and from the beginning VECSYS has had a very close cooperation in the speech processing domain with the LIMSI, a laboratory of the French National Scientific Research Agency (CNRS). VECSYS designs, produces, and markets products belonging to two complementary sectors : Automatic Speech Processing and Industrial Teleprocessing. The competence of the VECSYS Automatic Speech Processing Department covers the full range of speech technologies, and more particularly speech recognition and speaker identification.
Among the main applications designed by VECSYS we may quote the following :

  • Voice input/output in fighter cockpits,
  • Voice environment control for handicapped people,
  • Vocal technology integration in workstations for air traffic control training,
  • Speaker verification for access control,
  • Automatic Speech Synthetizer in subways, tramways, bus


THE ACTIVITY

AUTOMATIC SPEECH PROCESSING
In this state-of-the-art sector, yesterday a scientific curiosity but now an industrial reality, our close cooperation with the CNRS from the outset has allowed VECSYS to develop and market speech synthesis and recognition systems which are among the most performing in the world.

The competences of the Automatic Speech Processing Department cover the full range of speech technologies :

  • speech recognition,
  • spoken language understanding and dialog
  • speaker identification,
  • audio transcription for broadcast documents
  • speech synthesis.

Supported by its research and development, VECSYS markets a line of standard products and produces customized designs for industry and public services. Its competences in the more general area of industrial microcomputing allow it to handle complete applications in fields as varied as aeronautics, environmental control for the handicapped, message broadcasting in public transportation, access control, etc.

INDUSTRIAL TELEPROCESSING
The association of the most sophisticated microcomputing techniques with the most performing communication facilities (radio, telephone, leased lines, etc.) is at the origin of the activity of the Industrial Teleprocessing Department.

Designed around portable or on-board computers and management systems for radio networks, VECSYS develops turnkey applications for its customers :

  • remote control of industrial sites,
  • data entry and transmission in the field,
  • remote control of bus systems, truck fleets, etc.

In all these products, a multiprocessor technique in conjunction with a Multitasking/Real-Time Operating System controls a wide diversity of links and peripherals in a reduced volume.


PARTNERS


RESEARCH

The company has a wealth of experience in Automatic Speech Processing and works closely with one of the most advanced research laboratories on the international level, LIMSI-CNRS.

The performances of the algorithms delopped by LIMSI are among the best available worldwide and are regulary awarded top rankings by the American DARPA benchmark tests (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency)

VECSYS is involved in CEE research project such as OLIVE, ALERT, AMITIE, …

ARISE
(Automatic Railway Information Systems for Europe)

More and more people are traveling by train, and they need information at all times of day or night, wherever they are and with no complications. Thats's why 14 European partners from the fields of industry and research have been working on the ARISE project, to develop automated information systems in Dutch, Italian and French. ARISE is a Data Communications Application in the Language Engineering Projects sector managed by the DGXIII in Luxembourg.

One of the French systems is the result of a partnership between VECSYS/LIMSI-CNRS with the SNCF French railways Research Department.

It incorporates the most advanced speech recognition and man-machine dialog technologies.

This automated voice server provides SNCF clients with easy and immediate access to train schedules.

AMITIES

AMITIÉS will allow EU and US citizens to access information and assistance from commercial companies via telephone and the Internet using their native languages in a natural interactive dialogue. AMITIÉS will yield a major advance for today's call centres through multilingual natural language interfaces. It will make the cost of creating new information sources more affordable so that more services will be possible with equal access for everyone, at anytime, from anywhere.

Partners: CNRS-LIMSI, University of Sheffield, University of New York, Duke University, GE R&D.

 
 
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