Accelerating innovation, Quaero has allowed the Jouve Group to develop a globally competitive industrial platform for digitization and eBook conversion

At the press conference for the Quaero project on May 27 at the Echangeur, the members of the consortium presented their latest innovations. Within the framework of this project, Jouve has developed an industrial platform for digitization and eBook conversion and an innovative new software solution offering eBook and audio-book synchronization.

Access to culture and the digitization of cultural works: a global strategy

Aware of the ways in which digital technology has revolutionized both the consumption and the economic model of music, Quaero has, from the start, taken on the challenges engendered by the development and proliferation of new media (PC, TV, mobiles, tablets...). Responding to these challenges, Jouve offers a competitive industrial digitization platform, and demonstrated during the conference that the eBook has found a new voice, notably allowing the marriage of the audio and electronic book.

The eBook has found its own voice

The eBook and audio-book synchronization solution developed in partnership with LIMSI-CNRS (speech recognition technology) and Vecsys (automatic speech/text alignment to synchronize audio sources with eBooks) offers an added bonus to eBook reading

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Jouve’s work within Quaero offers a range of new uses: continue following a story in the car as a famous actor picks up where you left off reading, or learn a new foreign language rapidly with the familiar voice of your teacher. The innovative technology allows you to pass between reading and listening at the touch of a button.

At the centre of digital technologies and new distribution media, Jouve is the leader in eBook conversion in Europe and the United States. After the takeover of the Safig group on 3 May, Jouve has become the number 1 in heritage digitization and the principle supplier for the BNF, both in terms of digitization and in data conversion.

About Quaero

On May 27, 2010 Quaero presented the new developments which have issued directly from its research programs, and demonstrated its role as a catalyst for innovation. Six members of the program (Technicolor, Jouve, Exalead, Yacast, Orange, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) explored the significant advances of their projects and the technological contributions from which they can benefit due to Quaero, just two years after its launch.

• Digitization and content enrichment piloted by Jouve,
• Media monitoring and impact analysis led by Yacast,
• Personalization of TV content - project directed by Technicolor,
• Research and use of multimedia documents on the web piloted by Exalead
• Deployment of access services for audiovisual content on the Orange group’s web portals.
• Real-time facial recognition technology and direct automatic translation, piloted by the University of Karlsruhe.

Contacts:
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