Category: Professional Services/Consulting
NEC Unified's UC Solution Targets SMBs
NEC Unified Solutions launched today its unified communications solution for small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).
News Feature, Posted 08 Aug 2007
Autonomy Integrates Multichannel Interaction Analysis into etalk
The integration enables organizations to gain a more granular understanding of their customers and to quickly understand the trends and issues that could have a profound effect on the business.
News Feature, Posted 06 Aug 2007
Industry Dashboard: Datamonitor
FYI, Posted 01 May 2007
Positive Marks for UC Offerings
With Microsoft expected to release its unified communications offerings this summer, an independent solutions evaluator reviewed an early beta version of the software solution and gave it a glowing endorsement.
FYI, Posted 01 May 2007
VoiceXML Solutions Are Easy to Find
In response to the growing demand for speech solutions based on the VoiceXML platform, the VoiceXML Forum has released an online directory of solutions and providers.
FYI, Posted 01 Apr 2007
Heather Forrester, Director Outright Sales & Solutions, Bell Canada Enterprises
Speech Technology Magazine sat down with Heather Forrester, director outright sales and solutions at Bell Canada Enterprises to discuss the company's deployment of a speech-enabled attendant for internal directories and services.

Q & A, Posted 09 Mar 2006
Steve Pollock, Co-founder and Executive Vice President, TuVox (on the NetByTel Acquisition)
Steve Pollock, co-founder and EVP of TuVox, explains that "While there has been a lot of consolidation activity in the speech market, this acquisition is the first consolidation of speech application-focused companies."
Q & A, Posted 01 Oct 2005
Steve Liese, Director of Product Marketing at Carrius
According to Steve Liese, director of product marketing at Carrius, "In an ideal world, new speech applications would simply provide their services to 100 percent VoIP networks."
Q & A, Posted 01 Oct 2005
Peter Gavalakis, Chair of the VoiceXML Forum's Marketing Committee
According to Peter Gavalakis, chair of the VoiceXML Forum's marketing committee, "Customers that specify only certified VoiceXML platforms in their RFPs know that the systems they will be purchasing will be fully standards-compliant. This assurance is important for companies seeking to avoid the risks associated with vendor lock-in and with obsolescence by adopting a standards-based technology approach."
Q & A, Posted 01 Jul 2005
Chris Lotspeich, Director of Marketing, LumenVox
Chris Lotspeich, director of marketing at LumenVox, explains that "Other tuning tools typically look at the enterprise level of the application, whereas the Speech Tuner gives an in-depth look 'under the hood.'"
Q & A, Posted 01 Jul 2005
Dan Miller, senior analyst, Opus Research
Dan Miller, senior analyst at Opus Research, explains that "while many of the tools are developed to suit the needs of single users, the future is in developing software to support multi-tenant applications that give individual customers the ability to monitor, tweak and manage their individual applications."
Q & A, Posted 01 Jun 2005
Jeffrey Rayport, co-author of Best Face Forward: Why Companies Must Improve Their Service Interfaces with Customers
Jeffrey Rayport, co-author of Best Face Forward: Why Companies Must Improve Their Service Interfaces with Customers, explains, "As illustrated by the appropriate use of speech recognition that combination - bringing down the cost of serving customers while at the same time pleasing those customers with better performance - should be the goal of every company."
Q & A, Posted 01 Apr 2005
Sanjay Popli, Senior Director of Marketing, Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories
"I think we'll see contact center technology continue to move toward being a core business application, but we'll see the term 'contact center' morph as contact center walls collapse, functionality is outsourced, and the creation of virtualized customer service functions grow," said Sanjay Popli, senior director of marketing at Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories.
Q & A, Posted 01 Apr 2005
Peter Mahoney, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, ScanSoft
Peter Mahoney, vice president of worldwide marketing, SpeechWorks Division, ScanSoft, explains that "there is a proliferation of service providers, and we expect to see some consolidation over the next five years."
Q & A, Posted 01 Mar 2005
Mark Flanagan, President, Envox Worldwide
Mark Flanagan, president of Envox Worldwide, explains that "a growing number of enterprise customers and service providers are replacing their legacy communications systems out of frustration with high maintenance costs, inflexible architectures and the inability to add new capabilities as they are needed."
Q & A, Posted 01 Mar 2005
Eileen Rudden, Vice President of the Enterprise Communications Applications Division, Avaya
Eileen Rudden, vice president of the communications applications division of Avaya, explains that the greatest challenge in the speech self-service market is to drive customer adoption to meet their hopes for this technology.
Q & A, Posted 01 Feb 2005
Blade Kotelly, head of the Edify Design Collaborative
Blade Kotelly of Edify explains how and why it is so easy to keep callers playing along if the designer just makes sure to treat the caller the way they would want to be treated if they had to use that system.
Q & A, Posted 01 Feb 2005
John Cameron, Chairman, Unveil
John Cameron, chairman of Unveil, explains, "While cost reduction is clearly a driving factor in the purchase of speech recognition, we are seeing an increased emphasis on caller satisfaction."
Q & A, Posted 01 Feb 2005
Peter Leppik, CEO, Vocalabs
Peter Leppik of Vocalabs explains how and why Gourmet Customer Service - service which goes beyond the bare minimum to actually make the customer feel valued and special - is critical in today's competitive environment.
Q & A, Posted 01 Feb 2005
Larry Miller, CEO and President, TuVox
Larry Miller, CEO and president of Tuvox, explains that "if you can build and deliver a better speech application, the consumer adoption will follow."
Q & A, Posted 01 Feb 2005
Dan Miller, analyst, Opus Research
Dan Miller, analyst at OPUS Research, explains that Service Automation Expo attendees will learn what their counterparts in a cross-section of industries are doing to upgrade their self-service infrastructures including plans to upgrade their IVRs, implement more advanced TTS, speaker verification and ultimately natural language understanding (NLU).
Q & A, Posted 01 Feb 2005
Jo Taylor, head of marketing communications, Aculab
Jo Taylor, head of marketing communications at Aculab, explains how and why the key to making the deployment of speech easier and simpler is understanding.
Q & A, Posted 01 Jan 2005
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Companies: Professional Services/Consulting
Acapela Group
Advertel, Inc.
Bhrigus, Inc.
Cisco
Convergys Corporation
DemandVoice, LLC
Envox Worldwide
Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories
Gold Systems
Interactive Northwest, Inc.
IQ Services
Message Technologies, Inc. (MTI)
MicroAutomation
Net2Voice, Inc.
OpenMethods
Pacific Search Consultants
Primas
Pronexus Inc.
PSS (Product Support Solutions)
Real Soft Inc. (RSI)
Right Voice, Inc.
SOFTEL Communications, Inc.
SpeechStorm
Syntellect
TuVox, Inc.
UTOPY
VeCommerce, Inc.
Verint Witness Actionable Solutions
Vicorp, LLC
Voice Partners LLC
VoiceObjects
VoiceVerified, Inc.
Voiyager
Vox Generation, Ltd.
Walsh Media, Inc.


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