VIQ Solutions Expands Global Technology Footprint, Signing Multi-Year Contract with Multi-National Transcription Services Company
February 08 2023 - 07:30AM
Business Wire
VIQ Solutions Inc. ("VIQ", "VIQ Solutions" or the "Company")
(TSX and Nasdaq: VQS), a global provider of secure, AI-driven,
digital voice and video capture technology and transcription
services, today announces a multi-year deal with e24 Technologies
LLC, DBA Transcription Hub (Thub), to provide NetScribe™, powered
by AI, technology to transform workflow for Transcription Services
organizations in India.
Thub, a multi-national technology and transcription services
organization, selected VIQ to deliver an AI-powered technology for
internal and commercial workflow solutions to transcription
services organizations across India. Thub utilizes innovative
technology and a distributed rural workforce in India to transform
business models and is focused on speech, text, analytical services
transforming workflow for verbatim multi-speaker segments such as
education, call center and retail applications.
“VIQ is excited to expand our innovative technology to a region
where transcription production is essential to fill the gap in
global resourcing,” said Susan Sumner, President, and Chief
Operating Officer, VIQ Solutions. “The transcription services
industry is positively responding to the acceleration of AI used to
improve efficiency by streamlining content creation. By partnering
with Thub, our technology solutions will help transcription
companies around the world see the value realized by the court, law
enforcement and insurance companies that VIQ serves today.”
“We are delighted to extend our partnership with VIQ,” said
Harrish Natarajan, Founder & CEO, Thub. “For the past year, we
successfully used NetScribe to enhance our internal workflows. We
have seen a vast improvement in productivity and have made the
transition from traditional transcription to editing an
AI-generated draft. The quality of the draft, for multi speaker
applications, was a key driver in our decision to take the
partnership to the next level.”
As the appetite for digitalization of recorded events increases,
technology is required to keep pace with the amount of evidentiary
content created every day. VIQ's AI-based workflow technology
increases efficiency, decreases turnaround time, and yields higher
transcription accuracy.
About VIQ Solutions
VIQ Solutions is a global provider of secure, AI-driven, digital
voice and video capture technology and transcription services. VIQ
offers a seamless, comprehensive solution suite that delivers
intelligent automation, enhanced with human review, to drive
transformation in the way content is captured, secured, and
repurposed into actionable information. The cyber-secure, AI
technology and services platform are implemented in the most rigid
security environments including criminal justice, legal, insurance,
government, corporate finance, media, and transcription service
provider markets, enabling them to improve the quality and
accessibility of evidence, to easily identify predictive insights
and to achieve digital transformation faster and at a lower
cost.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements included in this news release constitute
forward-looking statements or forward-looking information
(“forward-looking statements”) under applicable securities
legislation. Such forward-looking statements are provided for the
purpose of providing information about management's current
expectations and plans relating to the future. Readers are
cautioned that reliance on such information may not be appropriate
for other purposes.
Forward-looking statements typically contain statements with
words such as "anticipate", "believe", "expect", "plan", "intend",
"estimate", "propose", "project" or similar words suggesting future
outcomes or statements regarding an outlook. Forward-looking
statements in this news release include, but are not limited to,
those statements with respect to the benefits of the partnership
with Thub. Forward-looking statements are based on several factors
and assumptions which have been used to develop such statements and
information, but which may prove to be incorrect. Although VIQ
believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking
statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on
forward-looking statements because VIQ can give no assurance that
such expectations will prove to be correct. In addition to other
factors and assumptions which may be identified in this news
release, assumptions have been made regarding, among other things,
the Company’s business plans, including plans for expansion.
Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list is not exhaustive of
all factors and assumptions that have been used.
Forward-looking statements are necessarily based on a number of
opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered
reasonable by the Company as of the date of this news release, are
subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and
other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity,
performance or achievements to be materially different from those
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including
but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the
“Risk Factors” section of the Company’s annual information form
dated March 31, 2022 and in the Company’s other materials filed
with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities and the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, available at
www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov, respectively. These factors are not
intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could
affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered
carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and
assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking
statements contained in this news release are made as of the date
of this news release, and the Company expressly disclaims any
obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statements, or
the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of
new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by
law.
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