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Applications Technology (AppTek) is a U.S. company headquartered inMcLean, Virginia that specializes inartificial intelligence andmachine learning forhuman language technologies. The company provides both managed and professional services fornatural language processing (NLP) technologies including automaticspeech recognition (ASR), neuralmachine translation (MT),natural-language understanding (NLU) and neuralspeech synthesis. AppTek's automatic speech recognition covers over 45 languages and dialects. The neural MT engine covers over 1000 language pairs between languages.
AppTek's Head of Science, Prof. Dr. -Ing Hermann Ney,[1] was awarded theIEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award in 2019 and theISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement in 2021 for his work in natural language processing.[2]
AppTek was acquired in 1998 byLernout & Hauspie (at the time a NASDAQ publicly traded company), AppTek organized a management buy-out and went private again in 2001. In 2014, the company sold its hybrid machine translation technology toeBay[3] and has since rebuilt the platform to modern neural-based approaches for machine translation. In 2020, SOSi acquired non-controlling interest in AppTek and became an exclusive reseller of AppTek products for U.S. federal, state, and local government entities.[4]