CST: Nestor.BRIEF

Nestor.BRIEF - Intelligent Meeting Logging System. It allows you to convert the voice of speakers into text and form a single digital archive of the results of meetings. Digitizing the results of meetings reduces the time for preparing protocols. The availability of an archive of materials and a convenient search provide quick access to the necessary information.

2023

Implementation of Speech Diarization Technology

The Speech Technology Cent er Group on November 10, 2023 presented an updated release of Nestor. BRIEF - solutions based on artificial intelligence for logging meetings and online meetings. Among the key updates is the introduction of speech dirization (speaker separation) technology, which allows you to allocate replicas of up to 10 speakers, forming a protocol indicating to whom which replica belongs, and not a common array of everything said. The implementation of the solution will at least halve the time for preparing protocols. The solution will be especially in demand where communications security and data protection are important - large corporate companies, state corporations, federal and regional ministries, city administrations and centers.

The CST product converts the voices of speakers - meeting participants - into text, forming a digital archive of meeting minutes.

Nestor's AI-based meeting logging solution BRIEF is complemented by the technology of differentiation, making it possible to divide the entire array data into replicas of specific speakers, making it much easier to work with the archive of meetings and meetings. For this, technology is used. speech recognition So technologies help automate the workflow and manage it from simple interfaces. In addition, we are experimenting with LLM - large language models. Integration large language models will allow in the future to further expand the functionality of the product - to summarize meeting data and carry out generative searches in them, said Dmitry Dyrmovsky, CEO of the CST Group of Companies.

This release implements a set of other updates: improved system interface, updated functionality for media engineers administering meetings. The settings have been adapted - the dictionaries of speech recognition, auto-substitutions and hotkeys have been replenished. The functions of distributed shorthand have also expanded: the ability to track the status of processed fragments, to receive statistics on the work of shorthand writers in the form of infographics has been implemented. The system has the ability to check the transcript not by one shorthand employee, as before, but by several. The parallel work of several stenographers helps to significantly speed up the preparation of the final transcript.

The implemented integration with domestic video conference platforms allows the use of Nestor. BRIEF in conducting both online meetings and offline meetings, can also be used in mixed meeting format.

Integration with the Vinteo VKS platform

On July 13, 2023, Speech Technology Center Group together with VINTEO presented a solution for recording VKS meetings.

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As reported, integration will allow building the organization's VKS infrastructure on the basis of a fully functional secure classic product, video conference conducting video conferences with an unlimited number of participants and providing automatic logging of online meetings in several languages ​ ​ with subsequent work with data. The solution will ensure the preservation of 100% of the data based on the results of video meetings in the organization's contour and twice optimize the preparation of transcripts. It can be especially relevant for state departments and commercial companies where there are increased quality requirements, and video conferencings information security strict regulations for working with are used. data

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= said Oleg Glebov, Director for Business Development of the MDG Group of Companies' One of the possibilities of implemented integration is multi-channel. Now the speech of each participant who joined the VKS online is recorded in a separate channel, which allows you to separate speakers, highlighting in the transcript to whom what statement belongs - this optimizes work with data processing. In addition, end-to-end scenarios have enabled the availability of all functionality directly from the interface. Joint solution allows you to record the results video meeting automatically, without the risk of transferring information to third-party resources - Keep confidential data as safe as possible.}}

The solution is based on the Russian system of intelligent support for Nestor.BRIEF meetings from the CST group of companies and the platform professional video conferencing telepresence from VINTEO. The systems are listed register of domestic software in and meet all requirements. import substitution

The principle of operation involves centralized recording and processing of audio and video data from the VINTEO VKS system from conferencing and video recording devices in meeting rooms - they are loaded into the intelligent maintenance system Nestor.BRIEF meetings.

Nestor.BRIEF converts the speech of the meeting participants into text and forms a digital archive of meeting minutes. Each authorized participant in the meeting will be able to understand who said what and when, regardless of how the meeting was held: physically - in the meeting room, online - via video conferencing, or in a mixed format.

Artificial intelligence systematizes imported data and prepares transcripts of meetings, records decisions and instructions taken. Further materials meetings are transferred to the information systems of the organization automatically or by one click is sent to employees from the Nestor.BRIEF interface.

The joint solution of Russian developers will expand the already implemented projects based on the VINTEO VKS, supplementing the functionality of the video conferencing server with modern speech recognition technologies with automatic preparation of transcripts.

2022: Integration with CTI Smart Room

Business has integrator CTI implemented the Nestor.BRIEF system from the group of companies CST  into its own product.  CTI Smart Room The Nestor.BRIEF system allows you to log meetings in,  CTI Smart Meeting Rooms automates the preparation of protocols, significantly reducing time   digitizings the results of online and offline meetings by the process , and also facilitates the search for and. This was announced on December 19, 2022 by  data storage the Speech Technology Center Ltd.. More. here

2021

Integration with TrueConf Server

and TrueConf the group of companies CST on July 1, 2021 announced integration AEROSPACE FORCES the -platform TrueConf Server and Nestor.BRIEF, - AI resolutions for "smart" recording of meetings. More. here

Integration with VideoMost VKS

On July 1, 2021, the Russian company SPIRIT, the developer of the video conferencing software product VideoMost, announced the completion of product integration with the Nestor.BRIEF meeting logging system, as a result of which VideoMost users can automatically generate text protocols of video communication sessions.

The integration of VideoMost, a software product for videoconferences and collaboration with clients on PCs and mobile devices, and the Nestor.BRIEF system is an automatic translation into voices text. The entire VideoMost Video Conference is available in the Nestor.BRIEF digital archive to prepare an official meeting record that can be used for reporting. Real-time intelligent logging allows all video participants to take a full part in the discussion and not be distracted by maintaining records for the protocol, which is formed automatically by pressing a couple of buttons immediately after the meeting.

Russian VKS VideoMost allows you to record and store video communication sessions. At the same time, voice, video content and (documents, screen sharing) can be stored together or separately in any combinations to reduce capacity. DSS When integrating VideoMost with speech-to-text products like Nestor.BRIEF, voice recording is used to automatically prepare a text protocol. At the same time, all meeting records are stored in the VideoMost servers product on the customer company, and not in, cloud which ensures the protection of confidential, - information comments the Andrey Sviridenko chairman of the SPIRIT board.

With the increasing frequency and duration of daily video broadcasts, the array of video archives is growing rapidly, and the search for the necessary information can take a considerable time. Using Nestor.BRIEF's VideoMost + integration allows you to streamline the online discussion documentation process, halve the time to prepare meeting minutes, and make it easier to find the information you need to review and analyze again.

Digital communications of employees have reached a fundamentally different level. The confidentiality of the topics discussed, the need to accumulate information and further work with it on the result of video conferencing becomes a critical business function for both corporate business and government agencies. The integration of the Nestor.BRIEF logging system from the CST group with the Russian VideoMost VKS enables our customers to get a single, comprehensive, secure solution for improving corporate communications and business development. said Dmitry Dyrmovsky, CEO of the CST Group of Companies.

Product Presentation

On June 30, 2021, the CST Group of Companies presented an artificial intelligence-based product for logging meetings and online meetings - Nestor.BRIEF^[1]. It allows you to convert the voice of speakers into text and form a single digital archive of the results of meetings. The implementation of the CST product will help in digitizing the results of meetings and reduce the time for preparing protocols - at least twice. It simplifies the search and saves data from each meeting.

The solution will be in demand in companies where corporate communications security and data protection are important, as well as the digitalization of workplaces.

At the end of June 2021, it was implemented integration with video conference platforms TrueConf and, in VideoMost plans, integration with the top 5 global ones. AEROSPACE FORCES

In business processes, often more than 50% of the working time is allocated to meetings and meetings, while communications remained an important not digitized link. The long preparation of the results of meetings - meeting notes - reduces efficiency: it requires routine manual work, forces managers to spend time reminding orders. At the same time, colleagues who missed the meeting are completely deprived of context. All this has a negative impact on business and business culture. This CST solution allows us to solve these issues and develop the concept of a single digital workplace, where the workflow is easily automated and controlled from simple interfaces. We have already implemented simple integration with a number of well-known conference systems. In addition to speech recognition in Russian, the CST product supports English and Spanish, plans include Arabic and others. Language localization will allow you to scale the product in the global market, said Dmitry Dyrmovsky, CEO of the CST Group of Companies.

With the increase in the number of online, offline and hybrid (mixed) meetings in organizations, there has been an acute request to preserve and accumulate important information in a single and safe place.

The CST product converts the voice of the speakers - participants of the meeting - into text, forms a digital archive of meeting minutes in the form of intuitive objects, where text, video and audio are combined together. Each authorized employee/meeting participant can understand who said what and when, regardless of how the meeting was held: physically - in the meeting room, online - via video conferencing, or in a mixed format.

Features and characteristics

As of June 2021, the product has:

• an improved model Russian of language recognition, including spontaneous, not entirely intelligible speech.
• the possibility of further training for specialized tasks: the product has a built-in dictionary replenishment module based on corporate materials. So companies can add internal documents or individual words: surnames, abbreviations, slang, technical terms - everything that is not common in Russian, but is used in a specific organization
• ability to actively manage the meeting during the meeting: you can tag, which will allow you to structure the information during the recording and in the future quickly find the necessary information on them
• automatic work with records of online meetings. The system itself "understands" where to take a record, recognizes it, and the employee receives a ready-made result, while - as soon as possible
• Seamless integration with popular audio and video conferencing systems. Recording and recognition of physical meetings and meetings through the existing system and microphones
• integration with third-party solutions via API
• web interface and mobile application
• typical solution installation process does not exceed a week

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