Dev-Audio’s Microcone Recorder is enabling the audio recording of group meetings for the NOVICOM research project at the IDIAP Research Institute in Switzerland. The NOVICOM research project, led by Daniel Gatica-Perez and Marie Curie fellow Oya Aran, is developing methods to analyse nonverbal group communication via computation methods. This could lead to tools for accurate interpretation of social meaning, as an alternative to word-based conversation.

The Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh uses Microcone Recorder in the scope of their research projects into human communication in meetings.

Dev-Audio has worked together with the Speech and Hearing Group at the University of Sheffield to integrate Microcone Recorder with their state-of-the-art WebASR speech recognition service. This demonstrates an end-to-end system for fully automated meeting transcription.