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Leading innovation with research & development

Firstly, we are an R&D center. Secondly, we are a for-profit organization. At SESTEK, we believe to be the market leader, we must lead with innovation. Specializing in Speech Recognition (SR), text-to-speech (TTS) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), our R&D competencies are pivotal in reshaping customer experience as we step into the era of intelligent communication.
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Pioneering voice technologies

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Pioneering R&D

Since 2000, our team has consistently conducted AI-based language technology R&D, focusing on speech recognition, speech and text analytics, biometrics, and Conversational AI.
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Expert engineering

With two R&D centers (Istanbul and Ankara) and a skilled multidisciplinary team of 100+ engineers, we actively engage in collaborative projects across industries like finance, health, and robotics, customizing technologies to specific domain needs.
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Global impact

Apart from spending over 40% of our revenue in this domain, we've contributed to over 35 national and international projects, including Horizon, Eurostars, Eureka, and Globalstars programs.
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R&D
Centers
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Registered
Patents
70+
Scientific
Publications
35+
Funded
R&D Projects
100+
R&D
Engineers

Let's bring digitalization to
customer service together

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Advanced Capabilities
and Assets

Our innovation relies on proprietary technologies—speech recognition, text-to-speech, NLP, and voice biometrics—all developed 100% in-house. With extensive expertise in managing textual and audio data, we've created diverse assets, offering capabilities like intent detection, named entity recognition (NER), emotion recognition, sentiment analysis, language detection, audio spoofing detection, text summarization, and more. We closely track the latest advancements, adopting an agile approach to integrate new technologies and language models for continuous enhancement.

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Intellectual Property
Rights

Our dedicated R&D team explores new frontiers in AI and speech technologies, pushing innovation boundaries. Beyond pioneering solutions, we prioritize safeguarding our outcomes through robust Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) strategies.

We currently hold 12 patents and have published over 70 works.

Awards & Recognitions

High Performed R&D Hub

We have been awarded multiple times in recent years at one of Turkey's R&D Summits for tech excellence.
SESTEK, committed to pioneering technology, received recognition and 2nd and 3rd Prizes in recent years, at the Ministry of Industry and Technology's R&D Centers Performance Index Awards, showcasing excellence in research, development, and design.
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Value-driven
Innovation

We are recognized, winning InovaLIG's Innovation Cycle, showcasing systematic and beneficial innovation.
InovaLIG aims to make innovation a driver for sustainable growth, evaluating and offering a roadmap for continuous improvement. Globally unique, InovaLIG rewards not just successful projects but efforts in innovation management. SESTEK's 2nd Prize in the InovaLIG – Innovation Cycle category showcases its commitment to innovation as a systematic and beneficial process.

Our projects

Contributed to 35+ national/international R&D projects,
recognized in various verticals. Here are some of our projects.
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Breaking Barriers: 360 Educational Adaptive Platform For Children With Special Needs

“Breaking Barriers”, as the name suggests, is an e-learning project that facilitates a gateway to eliminate the burdens of accessing education for kids with special educational needs (SEN).
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Speech Processing at the Edge for Smart Building Automation

Developed collaboratively by Interra and SESTEK as a custom R&D project, the system enables the setting and usage of peripherals by processing voice commands at the edge.
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DAIS: Distributed Artificial Intelligent Systems

DAIS – Distributed Artificial Intelligence System, a pan-European effort with 47 partners from 11 countries, aims at creating intelligence-centered heterogeneous distributed edge computing systems and solutions.
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AIMLP: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Platform

The AIMLP Project aims to address the “Training and Learning” needs of the industry by creating an AI-assisted and automated novel e-learning platform with 360 data collection and assessment features.
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