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In our Linguatec News you will find the latest information on products, research work, application ideas and customers from Linguatec Language Technologies. Read what happened during the past years.

Wall Street Journal has its content read aloud with Voice Reader Text to Speech from Linguatec

The Wall Street Journal is the world’s most important business newspaper with over 3 million subscribers. The digital offering is a key growth segment, with over 2.2 million digital subscriptions and a growth rate of 23%. To increase the appeal to its digital subscribers, the Wall Street Journal offers dubbing of its articles with Linguatec’s Voice Reader technology. “Listening is the new reading” – this trend will continue to grow in the future due to the strong improvements in text to speech technology.

14. December, 2020|

City of Bergkamen chooses Voice Pro Enterprise for speech recognition

Bergkamen used to be the largest mining town in Europe and is now known for its variety of cultural and leisure activities. To further increase the efficiency of the administration, it was decided after extensive testing to use Linguatec’s speech recognition solution Voice Pro Enterprise.

3. November, 2020|

DB Regio Bus generates voice prompts with Linguatec Voice Reader

DB Regio Bus is in charge of Deutsche Bahn’s regional passenger transport operating app. 11,700 buses throughout Germany. The demands placed on the buses are high and specific to each local area. “On the road nationwide – at home on site” is therefore the motto of DB Regio Bus. The announcements on the buses must be adapted quickly and efficiently to local situations. That is why DB Regio Bus chose Voice Reader from Linguatec.

16. October, 2020|

German Aerospace Center chooses Linguatec Speech Recognition

Automatic transcription of interviews and audio recordings poses a particular technological challenge. After intensive tests, the German Aerospace Center in Braunschweig has decided in favor of Linguatec’s Speech Recognition System „Voice Pro Enterprise“. The decisive criteria were its convincing recognition quality even in acoustically difficult environments, easy installation across the organization and an attractive price-performance-ratio.  

29. July, 2020|

Linguatec and EML join Forces in Speech Recognition

EML Speech Technology with new shareholders and management

Former EML European Media Laboratory GmbH has repositioned itself with new shareholders and a new management team. Munich-based Linguatec GmbH and Markus Klehr, Head of Product Development of EML, have acquired the company from the family of SAP cofounder Klaus Tschira. Markus Klehr and the CEO of Linguatec, Dr. Reinhard Busch, are now CEOs of EML. In order to emphasize the consequent reorientation towards speech recognition, the company now operates under the name EML Speech Technology GmbH.

EML will continue its current business activities with the same staff from the same offices as before. All customer and license contracts will remain in effect. “The new relationship with Linguatec offers us the chance to incorporate our base technology for speech recognition in speech-enabled applications and to offer more comprehensive solutions to its customers,” says CEO Markus Klehr.

Linguatec is the leading provider of language-technology software for office use in Germany. CEO Reinhard Busch is convinced “that we will bring even more expertise in speech recognition and transcription into the market than before. Many of our customers do not want to be dependent on third-party cloud providers as far as speech recognition is concerned. Instead they are looking for secure in-house solutions optimized for their needs”. 

1. May, 2020|

R+V BKK chooses Linguatec Speech Recognition

R+V Betriebskrankenkasse belongs to R+V Versicherung, one of the largest insurance companies in Germany. It has received the dfg award 2019 in the category „Outstanding Digital Communication“. After extensive testing, R+V BKK opted for Voice Pro speech recognition system from Linguatec.

25. February, 2020|

Linguatec receives Award for its Online Shop

Consumer magazine Kaufberater.io is one of the most widely read networks in Germany. In a large study, online shops have been analysed and evaluated in terms of security, usability and services. Linguatec achieved 39 out of 40 possible points and was awarded as Top Shop.

9. October, 2019|

Bavarian State Chancellery opts for Voice Reader Web as text-to-speech solution

The Bavarian State Chancellery is the supreme state authority established to support the Bavarian prime minister and the state government in Munich. In order to contribute towards a website with easy accessibility, Voice Reader Web from Linguatec has been integrated so that website visitors can have the textual content read out to them.

30. May, 2019|

Hamburg Port Authority relies on Voice Reader for generating announcements in German and English

Hamburg Port Authority is in charge of port management for the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg. It is responsible for the safety of shipping traffic and the extensive infrastructure of Germany’s largest seaport. In order to increase productivity and ensure consistently high quality, Voice Reader is used to generate the announcements in German and British English.

5. November, 2018|

How does speech synthesis work? Interview on NDR with Linguatec, Reinhard Busch

The podacst “Wissen plus” reports on the development, use cases and progress in speech synthesis. Smart assistants can imitate human speech increasingly better and start to move into more and more households. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence are playing an important role. To the interview

13. July, 2018|
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