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AppTek Selected as a 2018 Northern Virginia Technology Council Tech 100 Winner
AppTek,
a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-based automatic
speech recognition (ASR) and machine translation (MT) solutions, today
announced that it has been selected as a winner of the 2018
Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) Tech 100 awards. This
award celebrates the top companies leading innovation in the most
important technology sectors in the Greater Washington technology
community.
AppTek is the developer of one of the leading software that translates
text and speech within documents, audio, images and video into more than
30 languages. The company's artificial intelligence-based platform uses
advanced technology to power enterprise applications people use every
day for needs like eCommerce, consumer analytics, global humanitarian
relief and more.
In addition to the NVTC award, AppTek
was recognized earlier this year as a Star Performer by Speech
Technology Magazine for its breakthroug in various areas of
automatic speech recognition. Also, one of the company's lead
scientists, Dr. Hermann Ney won the prestigious IEEE
2019 James Flanagan Speech Audio Processing Award.
Lastly, as a testament to the diverse environments in which AppTek's
technologies can be deployed, the company won a $1.5
million contract for its machine foreign language translation system
for the Army.
"These accolades underscore our leadership and innovation that enable us
to help organizations improve business operations and provide the
optimal customer experience. We are looking forward to next year where
we will continue to push speech technology past simply being used in
basic services to where it becomes disruptive and will make a difference
in critical fields such as global communication, healthcare, job
creation and many other potentially life-improving breakthroughs," said
Mudar Yagi, CEO, AppTek.
AppTek will be honored at the NVTC Tech 100 awards banquet on December
3, 2018 at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons, Virginia.
About NVTC
The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is the membership and
trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. As
the largest technology council in the nation, NVTC serves about 1,000
companies and organizations, including businesses from all sectors of
the technology industry, service providers, universities, foreign
embassies, non-profit organizations and government agencies. Through its
member companies, NVTC represents about 300,000 employees in the region.
About AppTek
AppTek unlocks the value of content by breaking down barriers between
speech and text-based communications across applications that
organizations rely on for daily use. Our proven, artificial intelligence
and machine learning-based automatic speech recognition and machine
translation platform is trusted by some of the world's largest
enterprises to deliver seamless, comprehensive translation and analysis
of speech, text, video and images. Leveraging over 30 years' worth of
training data gathered from multiple real-world use cases - arguably the
world's largest repository and growing - AppTek enables the highest
quality automatic speech recognition and machine translation solutions
available anywhere for enterprises everywhere. For more information
visit http://www.apptek.com.
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