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Speech recognition technology for an innovative platform

Country of Origin: France
Reference Number: TRFR20170404001
Publication Date: 5 April 2017

Summary

French company active in the digital industry provides a platform for virtual reality business meetings.
The company wants to add new features in the platform and seeks technological partners to build a speech transcription feature. Services and licenses agreements are targeted.

Description

Company located in the Paris specialized in serious games is providing a platform for virtual reality(VR) business meetings.



The platform already offers the following features:

- Meetings in a VR environment

- Customization of the virtual environment

- Customization of avatars

- Sharing of multiple contents like 3D models,video 360°,audio,power point presentation...

The platform is already running on HTC Vive in a Unity environment.



The fast growing company has already good references (Ie big players from the IT industry) , has been already awarded with innovation prizes and selected among promising startups by HTC Vive.



The SME is also involved in collaborative project at the national and European level.

Expertise sought

As the business meetings users will come from various sectors (industry, consulting,banking, marketing...) and will speak different languages (native or non native speakers , various accents), the speech recognition should be efficient in any context including technical vocabulary with any kind of users.

The transcription should be in real time to allow subtitles ( making possible the participation of hearing impaired people) and translation.



The speech recognition technology should :

- Be ready for integration in the platform and be considered as a TRL 5 minimum

- Discriminate the different participants through their IP address

- Be reliable for speech recognition in several languages 

(Mainly Chinese,English,French,German and Spanish)

- Be cost effective ( less expensive than technologies developped by the market leaders)

- Be not dependent on Google/ Microsoft

Stage Of Development Comment

Validated in relevant environment

Requested partner

The SME is looking for a speech recognition technology in order to provide meeting transcription as a feature of the collaborative VR platform.

The technology developed by the partner should be ready for integration in the platform. 

The SME is interested in license agreement and services agreements.