STC will share its cutting-edge technologies at 1st EU-Russia Innovation Forum in Finland

The 1st EU–Russia Innovation Forum will be held on the 25 – 27th of May, 2010 in the City of Lappeenranta. The events will take place at the Lappeenranta City Hall and at the Lappeenranta University of Technology.

The EU–Russia Innovation Forum will gather European and Russian policy makers, business leaders, innovation experts and researchers, providing an outstanding opportunity to help build the future of EU–Russia cooperation in the field of innovation. Mikhail Khitrov, STC CEO, will also take part in the event.

STC will present its state-of-the-art speech recognition and synthesis technologies at own booth on the related exhibition of leading Russian and EU innovation companies.

Innovation Competition

STC will take part in Innovation Competition 2010 which will be held within the UE-Russian Innovation Forum. The main purpose of the competition is to highlight and boost internationalization of Russian technology start-ups and innovations.

STC presents at the competition its innovative project of free-of-charge information service for Russian tourists in Finland. In fact this is a Voice Portal with a storage of information about location of different objects and other important information for Russian tourists. The innovation business idea is that it is a voice-based self-service portal based on speech recognition and synthesis technologies, which makes it prospective and cost-effective solution. In fact the system recognizes the client request and answer to it using speech synthesis technology.

You are welcome at our booth No. 40 at the exhibition in the Lappeenranta City Hall.