MULTITEL is a private, non-profit research centre, leading applied research and development activities for industry leaders, SMEs and spin-off companies. Today MULTITEL is employing about eighty persons. The research centre is active in five interrelated R&D domains: speech Technologies (human-machine interfaces, speech synthesis, speaker and speech recognition), image processing and coding (visual surveillance), photonics, local area networks, signal processing and data fusion. MULTITEL has an international reputation with some twenty years of experience in speech, video and signal processing that have led among others to several patents. This reputation in speech technologies is also put to advantage by participation in several European Projects, such as FP6 STREP DIVINES for speech recognition front-end improvement, FP6 STREP ALLADIN for speech exploitation in medical application, FP6 EUREKA SERKET for audio/video surveillance of public places, FP6 STREP OpenInterface for speech centric human-machine interfaces and FP6-IP WearIT@Work for exploitation of multimodal speech centric interface in wearable computers.

On the basis of the R&D results of research and of the knowledge gained by the university teams, 4 spin-off were created:
"BABEL Technologies" in 1997 to develop the activities in the speech signal-processing domain (now Acapela Group). In 1999 IT-OPTICS was founded. In 2003, MULTITEL created a new spin-off, named ACIC S.A., providing soft- and hardware solutions in the fields of in- and outdoor positioning, data fusion, video surveillance and image and video analysis.

• Responsible for the module of A4.1.5.