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PTT & Radio Monitoring
Cortexa is designed specifically for push-to-talk (PTT) and private mobile radio (PMR) environments. These networks are the dominant communication medium in heavy industry, and Cortexa is the only intelligence platform built for their specific characteristics.
What makes industrial radio different
Standard speech recognition fails in industrial radio environments because:
- Transmissions are short, fragmented, and often incomplete
- Multiple speakers use overlapping callsigns and non-standard identifiers
- Heavy background noise — machinery, wind, vehicle engines
- Highly compressed audio codecs (AMBE, ACELP) degrade signal quality
- Mixed-language crews and strong regional accents
- Jargon, abbreviations, and site-specific vocabulary unknown to general models
Cortexa was built for these conditions, not adapted from a general-purpose transcription tool.
How Cortexa connects to radio infrastructure
Cortexa ingests channel audio at the network or device level. No changes are required to existing radios, repeaters, or dispatch consoles. Integration methods include:
- Network-level audio feed from TETRA, DMR, P25, or broadband-PTT controllers
- Direct audio stream from dispatch recording infrastructure
- Device-level audio where network integration is not available
Channel and speaker management
- Unlimited channels monitored simultaneously from a single deployment
- Channels can be pinned to specific crew groups, languages, or operations
- Speaker profiles are built automatically from callsign patterns and transmission history
- Channel audio is stored locally with configurable retention policies
Multilingual operation
Cortexa detects the language of each individual transmission automatically. No pre-configuration per channel is required. Supported languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Dutch, German. Mixed-language utterances within a single transmission are handled natively.