Recognosco

What Recognosco does

Recognosco GmbH is a Vienna-based, privately held software company that provides AI-powered speech recognition as a Software Development Kit (SDK) to software vendors rather than to end users. Co-founded in 2010 by Alexander Kolnerberger, Johannes Unfried, and Rob Thornton — all veterans of Philips Speech Recognition Systems from the 1990s — the company builds the Atlas platform, which uses deep neural networks and deep learning to deliver high-accuracy speech-to-text in medical, legal, and business contexts across more than a dozen languages including English (UK and US), German, Danish, Dutch, French, French Canadian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. The Atlas RSDK exposes comprehensive APIs that partners embed into hospital information systems, radiology information systems, PACS, EHR/EMR, dictation workflow solutions, case management systems, and document workflow products; Atlas Aura extends the platform with conversational AI for real-time, multi-person clinical dictation and ambient capture during patient consultations and Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings, while SpeechExpress is a cloud-based dictation tool offered alongside the SDK.

The business operates on a strictly indirect, 100% channel/OEM model. Recognosco does not sell directly to end users; instead, integration and distribution partners — including G2 Speech, VocalSoft, Reconice, DFC-SYSTEMS, CompuGroup Medical, Imagem, Wolters Kluwer, IntelERAD, Clinithink, Lexacom, and others — embed the Atlas engine into their own solutions and resell to healthcare providers and legal practices across roughly 25 countries in Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania. Revenue is generated through SDK licensing arrangements with these partners. The Atlas platform can be deployed on-premises, hosted in a customer's data centre, or delivered from the cloud, with full feature parity and a stated integration-to-live timeline of days rather than months.

Recognosco is owned by its three co-founders with no disclosed external institutional investment, has 11–50 employees, and is headquartered at Donau-City-Straße 1, TechGate, Vienna. The leadership underwent a planned transition in June 2025, with Rob Thornton retiring and Alexander Kolnerberger assuming the Managing Director role; product expansion has continued alongside the transition, including a dedicated Partnerships Manager hire in 2024, the launch and language extension of Atlas Aura, and ongoing addition of new languages and partners through 2025.

Name

Recognosco

Legal name

Recognosco GmbH

Website

https://recognosco.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Recognosco is a Vienna-based software company that provides an AI-powered speech recognition SDK (Atlas / Atlas Aura) to healthcare and legal software partners across 25 countries, enabling clinical dictation, ambient consultations, and workflow documentation without direct end-customer sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Speech Recognition Software

NAICS

Translation and Interpretation Services (541930)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Speech Recognition, Dictation & Medical Transcription Platforms (HLACAAAI)

Keywords

• Speech recognition SDK
• Medical transcription software
• Legal dictation software
• AI speech technology
• Voice recognition platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Vienna

HQ country

Austria

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SDK Licensing: Recognosco provides its speech recognition SDK as a Software Development Kit to software partners, who integrate it into their solutions and distribute to end customers. Revenue is generated through licensing arrangements with integration and distribution partners.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Recognosco provides a speech recognition software development kit (SDK) powered by neural networks and deep learning, branded as the Atlas platform. The SDK is licensed to software partners that build medical and legal industry applications requiring high-accuracy voice-to-text transcription of domain-specific terminology.

Product overview

Recognosco offers a unified speech recognition platform architecture anchored by the Atlas platform. The core offering consists of Atlas (AI-powered speech recognition using Neural Networks and Deep Learning) and Atlas RSDK (the underlying SDK with comprehensive APIs). Atlas Aura extends the platform with conversational AI capabilities for ambient speech capture in consultations and MDT meetings. SpeechExpress provides a cloud-based dictation option. The platform supports 13+ languages (English UK/US, German, Danish, Dutch, French, French Canadian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish) and can be deployed on-premises, in data centre, or cloud. Implementation via SDK typically takes just a few days.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Atlas: AI-powered speech recognition platform leveraging Neural Network and Deep Learning Technology for software partners across the globe.
• Atlas Aura
• SpeechExpress

Products and services

• Atlas SDK

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces report turnaround time by up to 40%
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• DFC-SYSTEMScoreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology partnership since 2014. DFC-SYSTEMS is a leading provider of innovative software solutions for the healthcare industry, offering speech recognition, digital dictation and workflow software for clinics, medical practices, hospitals, and university hospitals across over 350 sites. They are a strategic partner who actively participates in technology development discussions and product roadmapping.
• ReconicecoreTechnology or IntegrationStrategic partnership since 2013. Italian company focused entirely on speech recognition solutions for healthcare professionals. Supports roughly 500 hospitals and healthcare organisations with approximately 9,000 users across Italy and internationally (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador). First company in Europe to develop a zero-footprint speech reporting system for web-based applications.
• G2 SpeechcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorG2 Speech is the market leader in speech recognition solutions for healthcare professionals. They integrate Recognosco's technology into their solutions across healthcare markets.
• VocalSoftcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMajor player in the speech recognition market for over 18 years. VocalSoft integrated Recognosco's technology after being let down by a former speech recognition partner, securing their medical customers with Recognosco's platform.
• CompuGroup Medical (CGM)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLeading provider for ehealth solutions in Austria. CompuGroup Medical integrates Recognosco's speech recognition software into their workflow solutions for physicians.
• ImagemcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHealthcare IT solutions provider based in Quebec, Canada specialising in medical dictation, transcription, speech recognition, radiology information system and clinical workflow. Partnership announced to deliver Recognosco's French Canadian speech recognition technology. Serves McGill Health University Centre and Montreal Heart Institute.
• ActibaseminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFrench healthcare IT provider integrating Recognosco's speech recognition technology into their solutions.
• LexacomminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorUK-based healthcare documentation solutions provider integrating speech recognition.
• YansysminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFrench medical technology company integrating speech recognition solutions.
• DatatronicminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGerman healthcare IT provider offering digital dictation solutions with speech recognition.
• Dobco DedalusminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHealthcare software provider integrating speech recognition into their PACS and RIS solutions.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Abridge: Well-funded ambient clinical AI vendor generating structured medical notes from patient-clinician conversations; directly competes with Atlas Aura in the ambient documentation use case and is integrated with major US EHR systems.
• Suki AI: AI voice assistant for clinicians that generates notes and commands the EHR via ambient speech, overlapping with Atlas Aura's clinical documentation focus; backed by large funding rounds and major health system customers.
• Deepgram: AI speech recognition API company offering high-accuracy, real-time transcription via cloud; an emerging alternative for ISVs evaluating speech SDK providers like Recognosco's Atlas RSDK.
• Augmedix (Commure): Ambient medical documentation company (now part of Commure) that uses speech recognition and LLMs to draft clinical notes; competes with Atlas Aura for the same ambient AI use cases Recognosco targets in hospitals.

Direct peers

• Nuance Communications (Microsoft): Dominant direct competitor in medical speech recognition with Dragon Medical One, embedded across most major EHR systems; acquired by Microsoft in 2022 and now coupled with DAX Copilot for ambient clinical documentation. Direct overlap with Recognosco's medical dictation and emerging ambient AI offering.
• Winscribe (Dictation Solutions): Established medical and legal dictation workflow vendor that integrates third-party speech recognition into its solutions; similar partner profile to Recognosco and competing for the same hospital and law-firm end customers.
• Microsoft DAX Copilot: Microsoft's ambient clinical AI product built on Nuance technology, directly competing with Atlas Aura for ambient patient-doctor and MDT documentation in healthcare organisations.
• 3M MModal (now SoundHound for Healthcare): Long-standing direct peer in clinical speech recognition and computer-assisted physician documentation, formerly 3M's MModal business; offers speech-to-text plus ambient AI capabilities aimed at the same hospital and clinic customers as Recognosco.

Broad incumbents

• Google Cloud Speech-to-Text (Medical): Google's managed speech-to-text API with a healthcare/medical model, providing a hyperscaler alternative to Recognosco for partners and ISVs building speech-enabled applications.
• Amazon Transcribe Medical: Cloud-based medical speech-to-text service from AWS offering a general-purpose alternative to specialised medical speech engines; competes on price and AWS-native integration rather than domain depth.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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