Company

Appen develops and markets sophisticated computer-based speech and language technology products and services for major international information and communication companies and government organisations. Appen is recognised as a global leader in the quality and quantity of its products and services.

Appen’s products cover a wide range of speech recognition, text-to-speech (speech synthesis), phonetic search, machine translation and text applications such as Natural Language Processing (NLP). These are developed from the high-end fusion of Appen’s linguistics capabilities and computer science.

Appen works in more than 80 languages. Its range of products and services include:

• Speech and language database products for sale or license: Appen has produced packaged speech corpora covering both telephony and embedded applications with a full range of recording environments
• Speech file transcription and annotation services: Appen is one of the world’s largest providers of such services with the capability of handling all languages, scripts and millions of speech utterances per month
• Phonemic lexicons: Automatic speech recognition systems require pronunciation dictionaries (phonemic lexicons) as a major component of their development. Rules to process unknown words must be developed and lexicons are also required for text-to-speech applications.
  
• Grammatical Analysis: Grammar-related tools for the next generation of computer text processing including multi-language text proofing tools (thesauri, spell and grammar checkers).
• Investigative Tools: Powerful investigative software tools for use by government intelligence and law enforcement agencies such Appen’s Text Attribution Tool, for example, are used for forensic authorship profiling that can reveal demographic and psychometric author traits from a text sample of unknown source
• Databases and services: Databases and services are provided for the development of handwriting recognition software in multiple languages.
  
• Multi-language databases: Multi-language databases are provided for the development of language-to-language translation tools.
  
• Application Development & Tuning: Speech application development and tuning services.

To learn more about the Appen’s Product and Service Portfolio, please visit our Language Products and Services section.