The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is seeking information on potential vendors of audio analytics software and/or services for the purpose of audio mining and other speech analysis techniques that could be used in support of the Commission?s investigation and litigation activities. Audio analysis would include, for example, the ability to conduct Boolean type searches of large volumes of audio recordings, voice recognition capability, marking and retrieving specific conversations for later reference, and the ability to interact with CFTCs existing software systems such as Concordance and CaseMap. Specifically, CFTC is interested in the following information: (1) your firms name and address and a point of contact with telephone number; (2) a description of the features and capabilities of your products and services to provide audio analytics support; (3) a description of your firms experience providing such support to clients in a litigation environment; (4) client references, (5) the pricing of your products or services; and (6) the conditions (including cost) under which you would be willing to provide CFTC with a proof of concept demonstration using CFTC supplied audio recordings. Responses to this notice should be sent to
[email protected]. This not a request for proposal and no solicitation is available. CFTC will not respond to written and/or verbal requests for copies of a solicitation or other information related to this announcement. CFTC will use this information in their assessment of capable sources.