Networked Speech Recognition + Police ROTI / ROVI Digital Interviews

 

ELPedium Technologies Ltd is a private company specialising in the development and deployment of speech and digital media solutions. Its specialist expertise is to take leading edge speech recognition technology and enable its seamless usage in the professional sector. By using in-house developed contexts and data sets to create solutions for specific markets such as the Police, Legal and Medical markets.

 

ELPedium is dedicated to providing professional speech solutions, through partners, to organisations ranging from small local offices to worldwide corporate environments. ELPedium speech solutions are cost effective, promote increased efficiency and productivity and adapt to the user. ELPedium achieves this through mixing and matching the best suited speech technologies, input devices and other peripherals with custom developed and "off the shelf" value added software.

 

SPEECH RECOGNITION

 

The market adoption of speech technology has only yet been demonstrated in very limited segments. ELPedium has committed itself to act as a total speech and data management enabler providing best of breed, market leading solutions through a selected set of specialised partners and utilising latest software and input devices to offer a guaranteed successful speech recognition deployment. The X8 Communicator Bluetooth headset is the latest example of the innovative technology that ELPedium has developed for use in speech recognition environments.

 

POLICE

 

A number of key solutions have been created for use by the UK Police Forces. The search for solutions that can assist in reducing the paperwork and time spent by officers is the key to our technology. We have been at the forefront of developing technologies that assist in the creation of digital based interviews. We have partnered with

 A.V. Niche and OneDigital in producing the world's first network based digital interview recording system.

 

As the number of incidents is increasing, the Police are under greater pressure to deliver results in shorter timescales. We believe that our technology can offer a helping hand in giving the whole force greater control in the mountain of paperwork that is currently impacting productivity.

 

LEGAL

 

We have jointly developed a solution with LOASys for the legal profession.

 

LOASys document management is matter orientated, enabling the fee earner, manager or in fact any participant to the matter to locate documents extremely quickly. This is not limited to internally produced documents but can also include e-mail messages, forms, scanned images, incoming faxes etc of any file type.

 

The LOASys Speech Recognition component works in the background on a network computer completely dedicated to the process. This increases the accuracy of the recognition process, allows multiple users to access input and retrieve voice files to and from the same system and increases the security of the important voice files and voice training data.

 

The most important concept however it is that fee earners dictate as if they were dictating to a human being in the traditional way. They therefore only have to think and talk. Real time Speech Recognition had the disadvantage of seeing the text appear on the screen, this occasionally required correcting which slowed the author down and caused them to lose their train of thought.

 

LOASys returns users to the traditional way of dictating which is far more productive. LOASys also enables users without the benefit of a secretary / assistant to dictate as if they had.

 

MEDICAL

 

Many hospitals have benefitted from the appliance of speech recognition. Whether it is a single consultant, department or multiple site requirements. In larger sites a data centre solution is available which centralises all the dictations and the existing medical secretaries can access the digital files from anywhere on the network.

 

Using speech recognition has reduced the turnaround dramatically for reports and eliminated the “peak and trough” workflow issues. Studies have shown benefits and cost savings across the whole hospital over traditional analogue manual based systems.

  

TECHNOLOGY

 

At the heart of the ELPedium solution is the ELPedium Voice Server. It comprises of a series of modules that enables a networked and remote speech recognition deployment. It is supplied as an entire solution or as a component part of a digital dictation or workflow management system. It uses the world beating Nuance Speech Server 9.5 speech engine which gives exceptional levels of performance and recognition.

 

SOLUTIONS

 

ELPedium have a range of solutions available covering a multitude of areas focused entirely at the use of the human voice. A review of the section labelled Speech and Police Solutions on this web site will help you to define the most relevant segment of our products for your requirements.

 

Wide selections of specialised contexts are provided to support Medical, & Legal disciplines. Several of ELPedium partners have integrated the available components alongside their existing technology.