<s>
Applications	O
Technology	O
(	O
AppTek	B-General_Concept
)	O
is	O
a	O
U.S.	O
company	O
headquartered	O
in	O
McLean	O
,	O
Virginia	O
that	O
specializes	O
in	O
artificial	B-Application
intelligence	I-Application
and	O
machine	O
learning	O
for	O
human	B-Application
language	I-Application
technologies	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
provides	O
both	O
managed	O
and	O
professional	O
services	O
for	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
(	O
NLP	B-Language
)	O
technologies	O
including	O
automatic	B-Application
speech	I-Application
recognition	I-Application
(	O
ASR	O
)	O
,	O
neural	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
(	O
MT	O
)	O
,	O
natural-language	B-General_Concept
understanding	I-General_Concept
(	O
NLU	O
)	O
and	O
neural	O
speech	B-Application
synthesis	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
AppTek	B-General_Concept
's	O
automatic	B-Application
speech	I-Application
recognition	I-Application
covers	O
over	O
45	O
languages	O
and	O
dialects	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AppTek	B-General_Concept
's	O
Head	O
of	O
Science	O
,	O
Prof	O
.	O
Dr.	O
-Ing	O
Hermann	O
Ney	O
,	O
was	O
awarded	O
the	O
IEEE	O
James	O
L	O
.	O
Flanagan	O
Speech	O
and	O
Audio	O
Processing	O
Award	O
in	O
2019	O
and	O
the	O
ISCA	O
Medal	O
for	O
Scientific	O
Achievement	O
in	O
2021	O
for	O
his	O
work	O
in	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
AppTek	B-General_Concept
was	O
acquired	O
in	O
1998	O
by	O
Lernout	O
&	O
Hauspie	O
(	O
at	O
the	O
time	O
a	O
NASDAQ	O
publicly	O
traded	O
company	O
)	O
,	O
AppTek	B-General_Concept
organized	O
a	O
management	O
buy-out	O
and	O
went	O
private	O
again	O
in	O
2001	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2014	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
sold	O
its	O
hybrid	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
technology	O
to	O
eBay	B-Application
and	O
has	O
since	O
rebuilt	O
the	O
platform	O
to	O
modern	O
neural-based	O
approaches	O
for	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2020	O
,	O
SOSi	O
acquired	O
non-controlling	O
interest	O
in	O
AppTek	B-General_Concept
and	O
became	O
an	O
exclusive	O
reseller	O
of	O
AppTek	B-General_Concept
products	O
for	O
U.S.	O
federal	O
,	O
state	O
,	O
and	O
local	O
government	O
entities	O
.	O
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