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title: "Lernout & Hauspie: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "V. was a Belgium-based speech recognition technology company, founded by Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, that went bankrupt in 2001 because of a fraud engineered by the management."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-lernout-hauspie
type: Organization
wikidata: Q1809862
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernout_%26_Hauspie
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Lernout & Hauspie

> V. was a Belgium-based speech recognition technology company, founded by Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, that went bankrupt in 2001 because of a fraud engineered by the management.

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## Facts

- Category: Speech and language
- Country: Belgium
- Founded: 1987-12-10
- Dissolved: 2001-01-01
- Headquarters: Ypres
- Status: closed

## Key people

- Pol Hauspie, founder (Belgian criminal)
- Jo Lernout, founder (Belgian entrepreneur)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Lernout & Hauspie, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-lernout-hauspie#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1809862, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernout_%26_Hauspie

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