Sail Labs Improves Its English
September 11, 2012
The English Language has received an upgrade. Well, within the field of speech technology solutions, anyway. Sail Labs crows, “Sail Labs Technology Unveils New English Language Feature.” The company has just improved the International English capability within their Media Mining System.
Sail Labs creates products that harvest and process data from a wealth of sources—TV, radio, e-documents, and, of course, the Web in all its glory. The company’s Gerhard Backfried, Sail Lab’s head of research, emphasizes the importance of getting English right:
“English is the dominant and in some cases even the legally required international language in a multitude of economies, professions and industries such as aerial and maritime communications and for international organizations like the United Nations. . . . Keeping the International English language feature up-to-date is of utmost importance to us and reflects the significance of English as a key language for IT, media and communication. This latest update forms part of our continuous effort to keep language features, vocabularies and language models up-to-date to cope with language change and presents improvements in many dimensions.”
Such updating, the press release notes, empowers their software to process words and phrases common in current media. Sail Labs, whose breezy name stands for Speech, Artificial Intelligence, and Language Labs, was formed in 1999. The company is proudly located in Vienna, Austria.
Cynthia Murrell, September 11, 2012
Sponsored by target=”_blank”ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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