Applications Technology, Inc. (AppTek), headquartered in McLean, Virginia, is a U.S. company specializing in software development for human language technology (HLT). Its line of applications includes machine translation for 30 language pairs; multilingual information retrieval with query and topic search capabilities; name-finding applications; and integrated suites providing automatic speech recognition and machine translation (e.g., for broadcast news). APIs and SDKs are also available for integration and development. 

 AppTek has been in the development of human language technology (HLT) products, including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Machine Translation (MT), for almost 20 years. In addition to its COTS products, AppTek also leads in major research and development efforts to develop better methods and technologies that will advance the HLT field. AppTek is one of the largest companies solely focused on HLT (Speech and Text Processing) development.  

AppTek’s technologies are made for all-source data ingestion and analysis. The technologies can translate and mine data from multiple media types, including audio, video, text, instant messaging, and HTML. 

 AppTek’s products include ASR, Hybrid MT; multilingual information retrieval with query and topic search capabilities; name-finding applications; name matching; and integrated suites providing automatic speech recognition and machine translation in media monitoring of broadcast and telephony speech as well as handheld and wearable speech-to-speech translation devices.  

AppTek is unlike any other HLT company because its products offer the following benefits to clients:  

• Hybrid MT: rule-based and statistical MT in one system
• Dialect Adaptive ASR: BCN, Telephony, and Dictation
• Integrated platform allows for greater efficiency through shared resources from a single source and the easy addition of new languages and dialects.
• No third-party applications required
• Applications recognize many dialects, not only standard speech or script

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