Vocapia Research SAS

Overview

Vocapia Research SAS is a French company established in 2000, specializing in software solutions within the computer and technology sector. With a workforce of 11 to 50 employees, the company focuses on advancements in speech translation and related technologies. Its research contributions include participation in the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), where it presented its work on low-resource Arabic dialectal speech translation. Specifically, Vocapia's submission for IWSLT 2025 involved the development of a cascade automatic speech recognition (ASR) architecture and the creation of a crowd-sourced parallel corpus covering five major Arabic dialects. This initiative aimed to address data sparsity in speech translation tasks and demonstrated the feasibility of using crowd-sourced data in low-resource scenarios. The company’s research emphasizes the integration of advanced machine translation (MT) models and large language models (LLMs), reflecting its commitment to enhancing the quality and accessibility of speech translation technologies.

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