What NEWTON Technologies does

NEWTON Technologies a.s. is a Prague-based, founder-owned speech-to-text software company specializing in Slavic and other Central/Eastern European languages. The company's product portfolio is anchored by two core offerings: Beey, a cloud-based SaaS platform (beey.io) that converts audio and video to text with neural-network-based transcription, an AI-powered editor, subtitle export, live captioning (BeeyLive), and a 2024-2025 generative-AI feature layer (summarization, translation, sentiment analysis); and NEWTON Dictate, a professional desktop dictation program used in healthcare, legal, and government workflows with Philips dictation hardware. NEWTON Analytics extends the stack into enterprise contact-center conversation intelligence, with a reference deployment at Samsung's Czech technical hotline. Underlying the products are proprietary deep neural networks developed with the Technical University of Liberec's SpeechLab, plus a distinctive data flywheel in which daily dictionary updates are derived from analysis of 33,000+ Czech radio and TV programs per year processed for the related party NEWTON Media.

The company monetizes through a hybrid model: freemium-to-paid SaaS subscriptions on Beey (30-minute free trial, Beey Plus/Business tiers with a 25% first-period discount), one-time and trial licenses for NEWTON Dictate, and direct enterprise contracts for NEWTON Analytics. Go-to-market is self-serve/PLG for Beey and NEWTON Dictate, with direct enterprise sales for analytics deployments (delivered via implementation partners such as Conectart). The customer base spans media monitoring (NEWTON Media, DVTV), government (Czech Chamber of Deputies, public-sector accessibility compliance under Czech Act 99/2019), healthcare (Fingerland Pathology Institute), enterprise contact centers (Samsung), and a long tail of individual researchers, students, journalists, and content creators. With 11-50 employees, a Croatian subsidiary (NEWTON Technologies Adria in Zagreb), and no disclosed external funding, NEWTON is a small, bootstrapped specialist competing against global cloud STT providers through Slavic-language depth, daily-updated language models, and domain-specific dictionaries.

Name

NEWTON Technologies

Legal name

NEWTON Technologies a.s.

Website

https://newtontech.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

NEWTON Technologies is a Prague-based, founder-owned software company that builds neural-network speech-to-text and AI transcript tools — chiefly Beey (cloud SaaS) and NEWTON Dictate (desktop) — with specialized support for 16+ Slavic languages, serving media, government, healthcare, contact-center, and individual content customers across Central and Southeastern Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Speech Recognition Software

NAICS

Other Sound Recording Industries (51229)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Audio & Speech Analytics (call analytics, QA, insights) (HDAAAFAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Contact Center Speech AI (agent assist, IVR automation) (HDAAAFAL), Multilingual/Translation Communication Apps (BPAMACAJ)

Keywords

• Speech-to-text software
• Automatic transcription services
• Voice recognition technology
• Contact center analytics
• Professional dictation software

Headquarters

HQ city

Prague

HQ country

Czechia

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Beey SaaS Subscription: Cloud-based transcription and subtitle platform (beey.io) offered as subscription with free trial credits (30 minutes free for Beey). Beey Plus and Beey Business tiers with 25% first-period discount available.
2. NEWTON Dictate License: Professional dictation software sold as downloadable program with trial license available. Supports professional accessories from Philips and Olympus. Deployed at healthcare institutions (e.g., Fingerland Pathology Institute) as complete dictation system.
3. NEWTON Analytics Enterprise: Contact center analytics solution deployed as enterprise project (e.g., Samsung technical line analysis via Conectart partnership), generating contract-based revenue from quality monitoring and compliance analysis.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

NEWTON Technologies develops and sells speech-to-text software built on deep neural networks, specializing in Slavic languages. Its core commercial offerings are Beey, a cloud-based transcription and subtitling SaaS platform at beey.io; NEWTON Dictate, a professional desktop voice-to-text dictation program; and NEWTON Analytics, an enterprise solution for analyzing contact center call recordings. The portfolio also includes TV Beey, a captioned-TV service for the hearing-impaired.

Product overview

NEWTON Technologies offers a portfolio of speech-to-text solutions built around neural network-based speech recognition technology. The core products are Beey (cloud-based online transcription platform) and NEWTON Dictate (professional desktop dictation software), both utilizing deep neural networks for automatic speech recognition. Beey serves as the primary consumer/SMB offering with cloud-based transcription, editing, subtitles, and AI-powered tools (summarization, translation, live captioning), while NEWTON Dictate is designed for professional dictation workflows in healthcare, legal, and government sectors. NEWTON Analytics extends the portfolio with contact center conversation analysis and quality management. The company specializes in Slavic languages (16+ supported) and has developed specialized solutions for accessibility (Televize Beey for hearing-impaired users).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• NEWTON Analytics: Automatic analysis of recordings and analytical tools for monitoring and verification of call center conversations, detecting phrases, contexts, and conversation flow compliance.
• TV Beey
• Beey.io

Products and services

• Beey Cloud-based online tool for automatic conversion of audio and video recordings to text, with built-in editor, subtitle export (SRT, VTT), automatic translation, and AI-powered summarization, chapter segmentation, social media post creation, and live captioning. Supports 30+ languages with specialized depth in Slavic languages; targets individual users, SMBs, journalists, researchers, media and government customers.
• NEWTON Dictate Professional desktop program for automatic voice-to-text conversion designed for dictating longer texts into any application. Uses neural network-based transcription and includes professional dictionaries for law, medicine, and government; integrates with Philips SpeechAir digital recorders and Philips SpeechExec workflow software. Targets professionals in healthcare, legal, and government sectors.
• NEWTON Analytics Enterprise solution for automatic analysis of contact center call recordings, providing keyword and phrase detection, agent activity monitoring through reaction-time detection, customer dissatisfaction level identification, ad-hoc topic search, and consent verification for GDPR compliance. Deployed via direct enterprise sales, e.g., Samsung Czech Republic technical hotline.
• Televize Beey (TV Beey) Captioned television service that provides free access to TV programs with automatic subtitles for hearing-impaired viewers. Operated in partnership with the Czech Union of the Deaf (ČUN), with content selection managed by ČUN and captioning powered by Beey technology.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to two-thirds reduction in documentation time for laboratory results using NEWTON Dictate at Fingerland Pathology Institute
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability8 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ConectartcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 January 2021NEWTON Technologies partnered with Conectart to deliver the NEWTON Analytics project 'Spokojený zákazník Samsungu' (Satisfied Samsung Customer) for Samsung's Czech technical hotline. Conectart served as the implementation partner, with NEWTON Analytics providing speech analytics to monitor call quality, detect keywords, and improve agent performance, resulting in reduced Average Handling Time (AHT).
• Czech Union of the Deaf (Česká unie neslyšících)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint initiative to launch TV Beey (tv.beey.io), a captioned TV platform for hearing-impaired viewers. NEWTON Technologies provided the automatic captioning technology (Beey) while the Czech Union of the Deaf manages ongoing operations and content selection. The platform published over 1,100 captioned programs. The project was also supported by Konto Bariéry (disability fund).
• Technical University of Liberec (SpeechLab)coreTechnology or IntegrationLong-standing R&D partnership with the SpeechLab at the Technical University of Liberec for the development of speech recognition technology. This collaboration produced the Beey application using deep neural networks. The partnership includes ongoing joint research on Nordic language speech recognition, where their combined system outperforms Microsoft Azure and Whisper.
• Czech Parliament (Chamber of Deputies)coreOthersThe Czech Chamber of Deputies uses NEWTON Technologies' AI transcription technology to produce written records of parliamentary sessions — the first use of AI in the Czech lower house.
• DVTV (Internet Television)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerDVTV, a Czech internet television service, uses Beey for automatic subtitle generation to make their content accessible to hearing-impaired viewers. This was one of the first major media partnerships for Beey's accessibility features.
• Radio TOK FMminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNEWTON Technologies partnered with Radio TOK FM for the 'Search the Radio' project, developing a solution for digitizing radio broadcast content using a self-learning transcription system over a one-year project period.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Speechmatics: UK-based speech recognition company offering multilingual STT with strong support for European languages. Direct competitor to NEWTON in enterprise and SaaS transcription, with similar emphasis on language coverage and accuracy.
• AssemblyAI: Speech AI API provider offering transcription, speaker diarization, sentiment analysis and summarization. Closely aligned with NEWTON's product evolution into AI-augmented transcript workflows.
• Deepgram: AI-powered speech-to-text platform for enterprise and developer use cases including transcription, call analytics, and real-time captioning. Comparable in serving transcription plus analytics workflows via APIs and SaaS.
• CallMiner: Specialized contact center speech analytics platform offering keyword detection, agent performance, and QA — closely aligned with NEWTON Analytics for enterprise customer service use cases.
• Trint: Transcription SaaS with editor, collaboration, and AI summarization features — directly comparable to Beey's workflow for journalists and media teams.
• Otter.ai: AI meeting transcription and notes platform with multi-language support. Comparable self-serve SaaS motion targeting professionals and meeting-heavy workflows, similar to Beey's integrations with Zoom/Meet/Teams.
• Rev: Transcription and captioning service combining AI and human transcription. Comparable SaaS + captioning offering serving media, legal, and accessibility use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Azure Speech to Text: Hyperscaler STT service referenced by NEWTON as a comparable baseline. Broader portfolio, but directly competing in same transcription and contact-center speech AI categories.
• Verint: Large enterprise vendor for contact center analytics, workforce engagement, and conversation intelligence. Overlaps with NEWTON Analytics at the high end of enterprise deployments.
• Google Cloud Speech-to-Text: Hyperscaler STT service within Google Cloud competing in the same multilingual transcription and enterprise analytics categories NEWTON targets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/NEWTONTechCZ

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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