Apptek

Applications Technology (AppTek) is a U.S. software company specializing in human language technology (automatic speech recognition, machine translation, NLP, machine learning and artificial intelligence), headquartered in McLean, Virginia.
AppTek's primary focus is on automatic speech recognition (ASR), machine translation (MT), Natural-language understanding (NLU), NLP, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The neural MT engine covers many language pairs. Current bidirectional language pairs include English with Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Macedonian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian, and unidirectional pairs from Indonesian, Pashto, Tagalog and Urdu into English.
AppTek is involved in automatic speech recognition, covering broadcast voice and conversational telephony in various languages and dialects. Current ASR languages include English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian Bahasa, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Turkish and Urdu.
History.
AppTek was founded in 1990 by Mohammad Shihadah and Mudar Yaghi. Acquired in 1998 by Lernout & Hauspie (at the time a NASDAQ publicly traded company), AppTek organized a management buy-out and went private again in 2001.