Pronexus Releases VBVoice 5.6
Pronexus, a provider of standards based, IVR development toolkits in a Visual studio .Net environment, released VBVoice 5.6, a rapid application development environment for creating scalable and flexible telephony applications such as speech-enabled interactive voice response (IVR) systems and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications.
VBVoice 5.6 empowers developers to create the widest range of voice solutions by combining sophisticated call control functions with built-in speech, Web, email, fax, and data communications capabilities all within an industry-standard, MS Visual Studio .NET environment. Additionally, VBVoice 5.6 supports a wide array of communications protocols and standards, including speech technologies, MRCP, HMP, VoIP, SIP, and Web-services.
"Today’s developers/programmers are looking for a multi-faceted solution when it comes to their IVR toolkit of choice. They not only want to save time and resources in the development stages of the project but project managers and company executives alike are looking for an increased ROI and time to market," said Valentin Doroga, chief architect at Pronexus. "This is why more and more developers are choosing VBVoice."
As needs change, VBVoices’ enhanced support for Dialogic PCI and PCIe voice boards and the latest automated speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) engines from Nuance Communications gives developers the ability to swap one MRCP standard based component for another and leverage existing investments. By assigning diverse "tasks" to distributed resources VBVoice’s modular architecture allows multiple master applications to run on two or more servers, failover/switchover is completely transparent to incoming callers. Users can also create duplicate slave applications to ensure even further redundancy.
"A significant hurdle to efficiently developing an IVR or other speech solutions has been the complexity of creating applications, and learning curve necessary to become proficient with proprietary scripting languages," said Hiroshi Shibayama, CEO of CBA Japan (Pronexus' Asian partner). "With VBVoice 5.6 anyone familiar with MS Visual Studio .NET can create and deploy telephony-voice applications, in minutes. Thanks to VBVoices’ GUI based interface, MRCP integration; we're seeing people who have never written a line of code before create robust IVR voice applications on-time and within budget."