The Russian Ministry of IT and Communications awarded St. Petersburg's Speech Technology Center (STC) the prize for corporate integration of modern information systems and technologies. STC won for its Quality Management System.

STC participated in the AES 33rd International Conference Denver, USA and won the contest in audio enhancement.

STC has released a crucially new version of the distributed speech transcription system “Nestor”. It enables simultaneous transcription of speeches, meetings, congresses, conferences of Executive, Legislative and Judicial Government Forces, Public and Business Entities.