SAIL LABS and CESTEL Announce Strategic Alliance
SAIL LABS Technology, the recognized leader in automatic broadcast news transcription software, today announced its partnership with Cestel, a leading Spanish system integrator and service provider for the media industry. The collaboration will advance speech and multi media analysis solutions in key target markets in Spain.
(PRWEB) November 3, 2005
SAIL LABS Technology, the recognized leader in automatic broadcast news transcription software, today announced its partnership with Cestel, a leading Spanish system integrator and service provider for the media industry. The collaboration will advance speech and multi media analysis solutions in key target markets in Spain.
SAIL LABS has developed award winning speech technology solutions like the Media Mining System, a fully integrated information retrieval device to index multiple media streams in real-time. Applications range from broadcast news transcription and indexing, digital media asset management, video editing and cataloging to corporate education, presentation indexing, and call center data mining.
Cestel, the Madrid based system integrator and service provider, is a pioneer in the development of Internet, Voice Transactional Systems and CTI (Computer Telephony Integration).
SAIL LABS has chosen Cestel as main distributor for the Spanish market because of its experience and expertise in delivering technology solutions for various markets with a strong focus on the media industry. According to Adi Schmidthuber, Director of Business Development at SAIL LABS, there is a great potential in the area of digital archiving and indexing as well as media observation in Spain, where "The combination of our industry-leading technology solutions will open the door to promising opportunities and will strengthen both SAIL LABS' and Cestel's position in the Spanish market."
"Our partnership with SAIL LABS is a vital component of our strategy to continue to develop more efficient and cost-effective solutions for the benefit of our clients," says Richard Jacynycz, Business Development and Marketing Director at Cestel, adding that "the modular structure of the SAIL LABS' systems enables Cestel to offer value added solutions to clients without them having to 'rip and replace' existing solutions."
About Cestel
Centro Español de Servicios Telemáticos S. A. was founded in 1988 by the Progescar Group. Cestel is the leading system integrator and service provider for various industries in Spain, ranging from the public sector, the telecommunication market to the media industry. For more information about Cestel, please visit http://www. cestel. es (http://www. cestel. es).
About SAIL LABS Technology
SAIL LABS Technology (from ‘Speech–Artificial-Intelligence–Language Laboratories’) is one of the world’s leading innovators in the field of Speech Technology and ‘Natural Language Understanding’ creating high-end software for speech and multimedia analysis solutions. SAIL LABS Technology addresses the high-value speech technology markets of media indexing, media mining and spoken dialogue systems. Together with a global network of partners, SAIL LABS provides comprehensive solutions for vertical markets. Continual innovation at the leading edge of linguistic and IT research drives SAIL LABS' vision of creating technologies that enable advanced language understanding capabilities. For more information about SAIL LABS Technology, visit www. sail-technology. com.
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