Former Dragon Systems Executives Start Audiotrieve, a Company To Sort,
Index and Retrieve Internet-Based Multimedia Content
BOXBOROUGH, Mass. (BUSINESS WIRE) June 23,
2003 — Three former executives
of speech recognition and language industry leader Dragon Systems announced
today the formation of Audiotrieve, LLC, a new company dedicated to
applying speech and language technologies to solve problems that are
not usually considered to be speech and language problems.
The company's applications will sort, index and retrieve content that
is available or delivered on the Internet.
Audiotrieve's three co-founders are Roger Matus, Chief Executive, Sean
True, Chief Technologist and Laura Strassman, VP of Product and Technical
Marketing. They are best known for directing advanced technologies,
development, engineering, marketing and business development activities
at Dragon Systems, which was the worldwide leader in speech and language
products until its acquisition. Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the world's
first large vocabulary continuous speech recognition product, became
the top selling product in its
category and is still available today. During their term at Dragon
Systems, revenues grew from less than $15 million to more than $60
million.
"Because humans work with words, Audiotrieve's first approach
will be to apply advanced speech and language technologies to analyze
both seen and unseen words. The gathered information enables Audiotrieve
to work with complex multimedia content, as well as textbased documents,
in ways that others do not," said Matus.
The company's first efforts will be aimed at stopping spam by sorting
it out of a user's Inbox and at helping Internet search engines to
find online multimedia content.
About Audiotrieve and InBoxer
Audiotrieve, LLC (www.audiotrieve.com) creates products and services
that sort, index and retrieve information using language technologies.
InBoxer (www.inboxer.com), separates the email users want from the
email they don't. Planned offerings include services that help search
engines, such as Yahoo! or Google, and multimedia companies to find
the right content from within an audio or video stream.
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