SOSi Invests in AppTek to Advance Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Its Speech Recognition and Translation Offerings
Summary
and machine learning language technologies that are innovative, accurate, easy to use, and cost-effective,” said Mudar Yaghi Chief Executive Officer of AppTek. Its proprietary technology has been licensed and built into scaled offerings by some of the largest companies in the market, including eBay, Ford, and others. AppTek’s Director of Scientific Research and Development is Dr. Hermann Ney, also a professor of computer science at RWTH Aachen University, one of the largest research institutes in this field in the world, and recipient of the distinguished 2019 James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Ney has worked on dynamic programming and discriminative training for speech recognition, on language modeling, and data-driven approaches to machine translation. It has compiled one of the largest repositories of speech data for machine learning in existence in dozens of languages and dialects.
