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Company	Description
	AVIOS is a not-for-profit private foundation dedicated to informing and educating the speech community through information distribution and training opportunities and to highlighting real world applications of speech technology. AVIOS creates linkages between users, developers, and researchers to advance speech and multimodal technology as the interface of choice, and provides opportunities for members to learn about market and technical developments and to exchange informal communications.
	Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a member of the S&P 500 and the Forbes' Platinum 400, is the global leader in integrated billing, employee care, and customer care services provided through outsourcing or licensing. We serve top companies in telecommunications, Internet, cable/broadband, technology, financial services, and other industries in more than 40 countries.
	IBM Enterprise Speech Solutions include a broad range of software and services and a strong ecosystem of partners.  Offering IBM WebSphere speech middleware, IBM Business Consulting Services dedicated to transforming contact centers, and 40 years of research, including over 350 speech patents.
	With over 30 years experience in speech technology, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech market. Loquendo TTS, Loquendo ASR, Loquendo Embedded Technologies, Loquendo Speaker Verification and Loquendo VoxNauta are high-quality, high-performance technologies that guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 23 languages with 56 voices. Loquendo is the only speech technology vendor that provides a complete product line for navigation and handheld devices, desktop PCs and telephony servers, guaranteeing the same portfolio of languages and the same core engine in all these environments. Loquendo is a Telecom Italia company headquartered in Turin, Italy, with offices in the US, Spain, Germany and France, and a worldwide network of partners.
	More than 40 million people use Tellme every month for services including business search on 411, information search on 1-800-555-TELL as well as customer service and ordering for companies like Merrill Lynch, E*TRADE and Orbitz. By combining the passion of people, the innovation of the internet and the potential of voice technologies, Tellme lets people simply say what they want and get it. Tellme and Microsoft share a common vision around the limitless potential of voice as a way to find information, connect with people and enhance business processes, any time and from any device.
	West Interactive provides the nation’s leading companies with the most effective automated customer contact solutions in the industry. We support all our products and services with the technology, expertise and knowledge needed to consistently help our clients meet all of their customer contact objectives via traditional or wireless telephones, hand-held devices or the internet. We’re experts in touch-tone, speech recognition and natural language technologies. Services include custom automated voice applications, customer surveys, SMS, web automated notifications, and virtual call routing. West Interactive, a division of West Corporation, is located in Omaha, Nebraska, and services Fortune 500 clients in nearly every vertical market.