Category: Speech to Text
New research finds hands-free does not mean distraction-free.
News Feature,
Posted 14 Jun 2013
Solution seeks to address EHR usability resistance.
News Feature,
Posted 13 Jun 2013
Apps support eight new languages.
Industry News,
Posted 03 Jun 2013
The deal adds to Nuance's automotive business.
News Feature,
Posted 31 May 2013
The technology allows for hands-free phone use in China.
Industry News,
Posted 28 May 2013
Solution offers advanced unified messaging with speech to text, voicemail reporting.
Industry News,
Posted 28 May 2013
HIT-Kody Kreskowe will offer Voxware's Voice Management Suite in Poland.
Industry News,
Posted 24 May 2013
The latest in the line of hand-held recorders incorporates 3D microphone technology and a new design.
Industry News,
Posted 22 May 2013
M*Modal Fluency digital dictation technology will integrate with the healthcare provider's Epic electronic health records system.
Industry News,
Posted 21 May 2013
Hosted speech-to-text applications for transcribing voice messages meet Avaya's requirements.
Industry News,
Posted 21 May 2013
Adding a personal assistant will require some work, but the pay-off can be great.
Sounding Board,
Posted 20 May 2013
This latest release includes an enhanced management console and time-saving personalization tools.
Industry News,
Posted 17 May 2013
App lets users capture, organize, and share notes and lists by speaking.
Industry News,
Posted 15 May 2013
Speech solutions companies see opportunities in government changes.
Feature,
Posted 10 May 2013
Australian firm makes a case for BigHand's voice productivity and speech solutions.
Deployments,
Posted 10 May 2013
The forecast is bright for hosted solutions.
Cover Story,
Posted 01 May 2013
Capabilities include dictation file encryption.
Industry News,
Posted 30 Apr 2013
A new study finds drivers are also distracted while using hands-free technologies in the car.
News Feature,
Posted 29 Apr 2013
Acqusition of Benelux reseller expands dictation solutions provider's presence in Europe.
Industry News,
Posted 29 Apr 2013
Hospitals and imaging centers to benefit from real-time alerts and speech-enabled multimedia report creation.
Industry News,
Posted 25 Apr 2013
Keyboard also features dialect updates.
Industry News,
Posted 25 Apr 2013
Smartpen features voice recognition.
Industry News,
Posted 24 Apr 2013
FreeMe lets doctors act on documents while on the go.
Industry News,
Posted 23 Apr 2013
The five-year contract covers relay and captioning of phone calls for the deaf.
Industry News,
Posted 23 Apr 2013
The company is launched the next generation of its IdeaScribe app for iOS devices.
Industry News,
Posted 22 Apr 2013
The digital dictation offering relies on live transcriptionists.
Industry News,
Posted 17 Apr 2013
Web-based desktop dictation software includes full smartphone app suite and compatibility with any professional recording device.
Industry News,
Posted 17 Apr 2013
Solution provides human-sourced voicemail transcription.
Industry News,
Posted 10 Apr 2013
Closed captioning can be done any time of day or night using Autonomy's IDOL technology.
Industry News,
Posted 09 Apr 2013
The new iPhone ServiceDesk Plus MSP app features Nuance voice technologies.
Industry News,
Posted 05 Apr 2013
The new partnership with TranscribeMe enables quicker sharing of thought-leadership content.
Industry News,
Posted 05 Apr 2013
The company adds more than 100 additional U.S. markets and 21,000 hours of programming.
Industry News,
Posted 02 Apr 2013
New solution offers improved captioning quality for online video content.
Industry News,
Posted 02 Apr 2013
Complete 511 motorist information system will include IVR, Web, condition reporting, data fusion, and smartphone applications with survey feedback.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Mar 2013
The latest version offers support for Microsoft Windows 8, Office 2013, and Internet Explorer 10.
Industry News,
Posted 18 Mar 2013
Smartphones are increasing awareness of text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and voice control technologies.
News Feature,
Posted 15 Mar 2013
Offers solutions to meet HIPAA requirements.
Industry News,
Posted 12 Mar 2013
It now provides location-aware, proactive assistant, and text messaging features.
Industry News,
Posted 12 Mar 2013
Alliance formed to enhance critical documentation in hospitals.
Industry News,
Posted 04 Mar 2013
Technologies offer speech understanding for imaging solutions.
Industry News,
Posted 28 Feb 2013
Companies collaborate to link the physician narrative to the computer-assisted coding process.
Industry News,
Posted 27 Feb 2013
Companies develop Computerized Physician Order Entry app for iPhone and iPad.
Industry News,
Posted 25 Feb 2013
From the novice to the experienced, it's boom time for developers.
Feature,
Posted 10 Feb 2013
Applications are out there—if you know where to look.
Forward Thinking,
Posted 10 Feb 2013
The mobile phone app now speaks and understands 38 languages.
News Feature,
Posted 06 Feb 2013
Siri Eyes Free technology will appear on select 2013 car models.
Industry News,
Posted 31 Jan 2013
The United Arab Emirates agency will deploy a voice-enabled electronic health record system.
Industry News,
Posted 24 Jan 2013
The digital dictation product for the legal market will support the new BlackBerry devices.
Industry News,
Posted 24 Jan 2013
Cloud-based partnership will bring voice capabilities to more retail and distribution operations.
Industry News,
Posted 22 Jan 2013
Program offers vendors support and training to enhance EHRs.
Industry News,
Posted 15 Jan 2013
Hyundai's connected car prototype brings intelligent, conversational in-car connectivity to the mass consumer market.
Industry News,
Posted 09 Jan 2013
The app lets users connect their iPhones to interact hands-free in the car.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Jan 2013
Automaker launches Uconnect Access services.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Jan 2013
New feature lets users open apps by voice.
Industry News,
Posted 20 Dec 2012
The Spark and Sonic will integrate with Apple's iPhone personal assistant app.
Industry News,
Posted 13 Dec 2012
Technology uses natural language and artificial intelligence processing.
Industry News,
Posted 13 Dec 2012
Funding will enable TranscribeMe to grow its market position in next-wave audio transcription and speech-to-text technologies.
Industry News,
Posted 03 Dec 2012
Application adds keyword and speech translation capabilities.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Nov 2012
Collaboration enables enterprises to analyze audio content.
Industry News,
Posted 09 Nov 2012
Companies integrate voice workflow solutions with management services.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Nov 2012
New partnership to offer voice-enabled mobile forms in healthcare.
Industry News,
Posted 05 Nov 2012
Translation software featured on HP MyRoom on Microsoft Windows 8.
Industry News,
Posted 25 Oct 2012
Hospital upgrades clinical documentation workflow for improvements in productivity and cost savings.
Industry News,
Posted 24 Oct 2012
M*Modal's suite of cloud-based solutions integrates seamlessly with UCI's Allscripts Electronic Health Record system to offer faster, more flexible documentation methods.
Industry News,
Posted 18 Oct 2012
Hebrew is the latest language supported in Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search.
Industry News,
Posted 17 Oct 2012
Voice recognition solution streamlines clinician workflow in iOS apps.
Industry News,
Posted 16 Oct 2012
Dragon apps continue global expansion with support for Thai and Croatian languages.
Industry News,
Posted 15 Oct 2012
Voice recognition and text-to-speech service lets drivers dictate and hear text messages.
Industry News,
Posted 11 Oct 2012
Cloud-based voice technology to be embedded into EHR solutions.
Industry News,
Posted 10 Oct 2012
Solution allows customers to meet EMR requirements.
Industry News,
Posted 02 Oct 2012
M*Modal's Fluency Direct voice-enables EMR systems to capture complete patient narratives from any device, anywhere, anytime.
Industry News,
Posted 01 Oct 2012
Successful Dragon apps now let people dictate text messages and email, update social media statuses, and search the Web in 38 countries.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Sep 2012
Uconnect Access includes voice-activated texting and search functions.
News Feature,
Posted 24 Sep 2012
The platform enables voice as the user interface to interact with and control mobile apps.
Industry News,
Posted 19 Sep 2012
The $22.5 million deal adds to Nuance's voicemail-to-text business.
News Feature,
Posted 18 Sep 2012
The device features an integrated motion sensor and barcode scanner.
Industry News,
Posted 17 Sep 2012
The company releases a new voicemail transcription service that delivers messages as text.
Industry News,
Posted 13 Sep 2012
VoiceText is the basis of the Shabette Concier application in Japan.
Industry News,
Posted 13 Sep 2012
A new partnership with Speech Interface Design brings Vocollect Voice to warehouse operations.
Industry News,
Posted 12 Sep 2012
Dragon Assistant lets people speak to their PCs to search the Web, find content, play music, check and reply to email, update social network statuses, and more.
Industry News,
Posted 12 Sep 2012
The new app lets users use voice commands to perform many tasks while driving.
Industry News,
Posted 11 Sep 2012
Enables consumer access to more than 900,000 MRO products.
Industry News,
Posted 11 Sep 2012
Speed-reading subtitles translate to lower cost, improved experience
In Other Words,
Posted 10 Sep 2012
Updated voice recognition solution offers features based on user feedback.
News Feature,
Posted 05 Sep 2012
Increasing chat agents' productivity is the goal.
Industry News,
Posted 31 Aug 2012
The solution features speech technologies from Nuance Communications.
Industry News,
Posted 29 Aug 2012
The Ninth Circuit Court has rolled out the VoiceFlow digital dictation workflow solution to all its judges and staffers.
Industry News,
Posted 29 Aug 2012
Enables delivery via text message, email, and IM.
Industry News,
Posted 27 Aug 2012
TalkTapp lets users post messages in 23 languages.
Industry News,
Posted 23 Aug 2012
10,000 handsets will get the hands-free safe driving assistant.
Industry News,
Posted 22 Aug 2012
The solution delivers transcribed voice messages directly to an email inbox.
Industry News,
Posted 22 Aug 2012
Apps include use of speech recognition.
Industry News,
Posted 17 Aug 2012
The application lets users hear incoming messages and respond with voice.
Industry News,
Posted 14 Aug 2012
Solution saves physicians time by enhancing speech recognition.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Aug 2012
The new funding will aid in development of speech and handwriting capture technologies for combat environments.
Industry News,
Posted 02 Aug 2012
Connects iPhone users to Philips digital dictation solutions.
Industry News,
Posted 30 Jul 2012
The company adds more than 100 enhancements to its voice recognition solution.
News Feature,
Posted 26 Jul 2012
Android app lets users broadcast their Facebook news feed and talk back, all by voice.
Industry News,
Posted 25 Jul 2012
The medical clinical documentation solutions provider offers M*Modal Fluency solutions to facilities in Wisconsin and Illinois.
Industry News,
Posted 20 Jul 2012
Technology controls smart TVs, electronics, and appliances by voice.
Industry News,
Posted 20 Jul 2012
Vietnamese consumers can now speak to send text messages, email, and more.
Industry News,
Posted 19 Jul 2012
Cloud-based service helps healthcare and legal businesses use voice recognition services from the cloud.
Industry News,
Posted 12 Jul 2012
Company is the first automaker to use Nuance's new mobile assistant messaging system
Industry News,
Posted 09 Jul 2012
Provides access to literacy tools
Industry News,
Posted 09 Jul 2012
Apps enable users to manage and send their dictations from anywhere securely.
Industry News,
Posted 05 Jul 2012
Dragon now supports the Slovak language; Slovak consumers can now speak to send text messages and email, update Twitter and Facebook, search for Web content, and more.
Industry News,
Posted 29 Jun 2012
Medical solutions provider offers M*Modal Fluency for Transcription to healthcare customers.
Industry News,
Posted 28 Jun 2012
Supports DSS Pro file format
Industry News,
Posted 26 Jun 2012
Marks 36th country of availability.
Industry News,
Posted 25 Jun 2012
Adds features for OEMs supporting Android platform
Industry News,
Posted 20 Jun 2012
Robin, a new voice-enabled personal assistant from Magnifis, is available in beta across the U.S.
Industry News,
Posted 18 Jun 2012
iPad3-release.com reports the iPhone's voice-activated personal assistant is set to debut on the new iPad 3 following the launch of Apple's new operating system, iOS 6.
News Feature,
Posted 15 Jun 2012
Transcribes voice messages for mobile workforce
Industry News,
Posted 14 Jun 2012
Product provides infrastructure for large-scale deployment of NLU applications
Industry News,
Posted 13 Jun 2012
Features include tighter integration with Nuance software.
Industry News,
Posted 11 Jun 2012
Marks 35th country of availability
Industry News,
Posted 07 Jun 2012
Voicemail to Text integrated with enterprise voicemail service
Industry News,
Posted 06 Jun 2012
Unifies and enhances user desktops, landlines, and mobile messaging
Industry News,
Posted 06 Jun 2012
Launch marks 34th country in which apps are available
Industry News,
Posted 01 Jun 2012
Eight firms settle patent lawsuits with Klausner, three more suits remain.
Industry News,
Posted 17 May 2012
Dragon Apps expand availability and language support in eastern Europe
Industry News,
Posted 14 May 2012
Platform includes new M*Modal Fluency Direct
News Feature,
Posted 09 May 2012
The union will provide advanced IT and dictation solutions for the law industry.
Industry News,
Posted 08 May 2012
Companies sign interface license agreement.
Industry News,
Posted 08 May 2012
Offers greater dictation flexibility and supports multiple workflows.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Apr 2012
The software extension enhances usability and streamlines document creation processes.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Apr 2012
The cable owner and operator is offering the service to its residential and business customers.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Apr 2012
The Toyota Touch & Go features advanced voice recognition and TTS capabilities.
Industry News,
Posted 25 Apr 2012
Adds new features and low-cost integration for VARS and integrators
Industry News,
Posted 20 Apr 2012
The company debuts its Web services platform and API.
Industry News,
Posted 18 Apr 2012
Avaya CallPilot's VBK files can be converted to .wav or MP3 files.
Industry News,
Posted 16 Apr 2012
giSTT Hosted now works with any business voicemail system that can forward a sound file to email.
Industry News,
Posted 16 Apr 2012
Speech-to-text will help users find specific words within their digital media assets.
Industry News,
Posted 16 Apr 2012
Supports Standard Arabic language
Industry News,
Posted 13 Apr 2012
EHR information system supports speech-to-text
Industry News,
Posted 11 Apr 2012
The deal covers Klausner's visual voicemail technology.
Industry News,
Posted 06 Apr 2012
The solution meets rigorous standards for access to patient information.
Industry News,
Posted 05 Apr 2012
Visual voice messaging offers comprehensive message transcription and social media integration.
Industry News,
Posted 03 Apr 2012
New app lets users speak captions
Industry News,
Posted 29 Mar 2012
The relationship is expected to provide more streamlined, cost-effective approach to patient data entry.
Industry News,
Posted 28 Mar 2012
EZ DERM's 3-D mapping app provides doctors with voice-powered, mobile clinical documentation capture.
Industry News,
Posted 20 Mar 2012
giSTT provides voicemail access for the hearing impaired.
News Feature,
Posted 16 Mar 2012
Nuance's Dragon Medical 360 technology will power Voicebrook's VoiceOver software.
Industry News,
Posted 15 Mar 2012
The partnership will produce a suite of mobile dictation tools.
Industry News,
Posted 15 Mar 2012
Voice-activated communication assistant is now available for iPhone and can be used without a data connection.
Industry News,
Posted 07 Mar 2012
New owners identified Sync's voice recognition capability as a key part of their decision to buy a Ford; 77 percent say they use voice commands regularly.
News Feature,
Posted 06 Mar 2012
Deal gives mobile subscribers new text message feature.
Industry News,
Posted 06 Mar 2012
Nuance Healthcare to integrate dictation solutions.
Industry News,
Posted 05 Mar 2012
Transcribed voice messages can be sent via text message or to T-Mobile visual voicemail.
Industry News,
Posted 27 Feb 2012
The two companies sign a worldwide visual voicemail patent license.
Industry News,
Posted 23 Feb 2012
More than 30 developers accepted Nuance's challenge to give mobile healthcare providers a voice.
News Feature,
Posted 22 Feb 2012
Digital dictation workflow solution SpeechExec now fully compatible with Nuance's Dragon Medical voice recognition.
Industry News,
Posted 22 Feb 2012
The company also adds 18 transcription service partners.
News Feature,
Posted 21 Feb 2012
The partnership bring's PhoneTag's voicemail-to-text service to TelAssistant's phone answering and screening service.
Industry News,
Posted 15 Feb 2012
Reporting, escalation, and unified message tools help meet service-level agreements.
Industry News,
Posted 13 Feb 2012
The new portfolio includes a speech app to improve physician mobility with unified work lists.
Industry News,
Posted 10 Feb 2012
Mobile point-of-care solutions deliver real-time speech recognition, dictation and search capabilities.
Industry News,
Posted 09 Feb 2012
Voicemail-to-text added to cell provider services.
Industry News,
Posted 06 Feb 2012
The company began offering a hosting service for its speech and telephony applications.
Industry News,
Posted 02 Feb 2012
The deal integrates PerVoice's audio-to-text technology with TVEyes' broadcast monitoring services.
Industry News,
Posted 02 Feb 2012
Apps now available in 28 countries.
Industry News,
Posted 31 Jan 2012
The company is in the process of fixing bugs.
News Feature,
Posted 27 Jan 2012
Merge continues the expansion of its healthcare IT partner program.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Jan 2012
Digital note-taking tool for the iPad creates typed, freehand, or dictated notes.
Industry News,
Posted 23 Jan 2012
New packing station application could help companies achieve significant additional productivity gains and increase business capacities by eliminating unnecessary process steps.
Industry News,
Posted 20 Jan 2012
Speech processing efficiencies deliver powerful competitive advantages.
Sounding Board,
Posted 16 Jan 2012
Nuance's real-time medical voice recognition now supports Canadian French-speaking providers clinicians.
Industry News,
Posted 12 Jan 2012
Better Day EHR & Documentation Solution readies for launch.
News Feature,
Posted 11 Jan 2012
The two firms pair up to deliver voice picking and other voice-directed warehouse functionality to Oracle WMS customers.
Industry News,
Posted 04 Jan 2012
It's hard to argue against progress, but it has its downside, too.
Voice Value,
Posted 01 Jan 2012
A c-store distributor realizes double-digit gains with a voice-driven warehouse application.
Deployments,
Posted 01 Jan 2012
New technology makes the world a little smaller.
In Other Words,
Posted 01 Jan 2012
The text input provider rolls Nuance technology into its latest offering.
News Feature,
Posted 22 Dec 2011
The two companies have a storied past that involves many court battles.
News Feature,
Posted 20 Dec 2011
Dragon Mobile SDK makes its South American debut, empowering developers to voice-enable iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, and Web apps with support for Brazilian Portuguese.
Industry News,
Posted 15 Dec 2011
New voice capabilities are reported in the works for Google's Android phones.
News Feature,
Posted 14 Dec 2011
New iPhone app includes a voice assist button.
Industry News,
Posted 14 Dec 2011
The company expects top growth from mobile and consumer units and healthcare and enterprise segments.
News Feature,
Posted 05 Dec 2011
BigHand version 4.2 delivers major new components that increase the usability and effectiveness of integrated speech recognition technology.
Industry News,
Posted 01 Dec 2011
Viaero's Android smartphones will come with the application preloaded.
Industry News,
Posted 01 Dec 2011
The new "Cluzee" virtual personal assistant app employs voice recognition and synthesis, a conversational interface, and machine learning.
News Feature,
Posted 29 Nov 2011
The apps are now available for Finnish consumers to speak text for email, text messages, Web searches, and more.
Industry News,
Posted 28 Nov 2011
EVM Plus now can deliver voicemail directly to Lync users running the Microsoft client.
Industry News,
Posted 28 Nov 2011
European expansion continues as Hungarian-speaking consumers can now use Dragon to speak text for email, text messages, Web content, and more.
Industry News,
Posted 18 Nov 2011
The company releases its free s-peach app on Apple's Brazil App Store and the Android Market.
Industry News,
Posted 17 Nov 2011
The free software update is designed to integrate the company's dictation microphone with Mac operating systems.
Industry News,
Posted 16 Nov 2011
New Speech Engine now features text-to-speech, a completely new functionality for LumenVox
News Feature,
Posted 15 Nov 2011
The two firms join up to provide advanced mobile charge capture, dictation, and workflow solutions to physician groups.
Industry News,
Posted 15 Nov 2011
New dictation app for Mac OS X Lion provides a simple introduction to voice recognition.
Industry News,
Posted 10 Nov 2011
Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search debut in South America, giving Brazilians a faster and easier way to speak text for email, text messages, Web content, and more.
Industry News,
Posted 10 Nov 2011
Frisbee Smart is an application for Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices.
Industry News,
Posted 07 Nov 2011
Free app lets consumers use their iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices to capture thoughts and transfer recordings wirelessly for transcription with Dragon speech recognition.
Industry News,
Posted 20 Oct 2011
Danish and Polish consumers can now speak text for email, text messages, Web content, and more.
Industry News,
Posted 13 Oct 2011
Ditech Networks brings its voicemail-to-text services to Cincinnati Bell customers.
Industry News,
Posted 11 Oct 2011
New solutions unlock meaning from the clinical documentation process.
Industry News,
Posted 28 Sep 2011
Sprint BlackBerry customers can now get their voice messages transcribed and delivered by email or text message.
Industry News,
Posted 27 Sep 2011
Skilled nursing facility operator deploys Vocollect's AccuNurse across its network.
Industry News,
Posted 20 Sep 2011
Voice for Chatter empowers voice collaboration through Chatter.
News Feature,
Posted 19 Sep 2011
Mobile Voice Utility eliminates costly server integration, business process changes, interfaces, and middleware.
Industry News,
Posted 16 Sep 2011
Dragon Mobile SDK powers SayHi's translation app in seven languages via the Nuance Mobile Developer Program.
Industry News,
Posted 16 Sep 2011
Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search now support European Portuguese for speaking text into Eemail, text messages, Web content, and more.
Industry News,
Posted 16 Sep 2011
Technology lets users call in and verbally post information to status boards.
Industry News,
Posted 15 Sep 2011
Speech-to-text appliance can process 100 audio channels simultaneously.
Industry News,
Posted 14 Sep 2011
The first two apps in the suite are designed to steer customers to mobile smartphone applications.
News Feature,
Posted 13 Sep 2011
The company's new app lets users do more in Salesforce with their voices.
Industry News,
Posted 13 Sep 2011
MedMaster Mobile's point-of-care mobile app offers data capture, clinical documentation, and navigation via voice.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Sep 2011
Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search continue their European expansion, letting Russians speak text For email, text messages, Web content, and more.
Industry News,
Posted 02 Sep 2011
Integration of Dragon with Salesforce CRM and Salesforce Chatter lets people speak updates into the Salesforce.com CRM and Chatter accounts.
Industry News,
Posted 31 Aug 2011
The integration voice-enables any Salesforce.com form.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Aug 2011
Bubbly now available to SoftBank Mobile subscribers and attains endorsements from Yasuhiko Okudera-san, Sony Music Network, and Horipro.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Aug 2011
Dragon apps add Norwegian and Swedish language support.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Aug 2011
South Asia's largest voice-blogging service is now available to more than 80 percent of India's mobile subscribers.
Industry News,
Posted 19 Aug 2011
Advanced, real-time, medical speech recognition supports clinicians' documentation preferences while driving EHR adoption, quality input, and accurate reimbursement.
News Feature,
Posted 17 Aug 2011
The deal is worth $75.5 million and brings together two speech technology leaders.
News Feature,
Posted 15 Aug 2011
Verbble for iOS now allows users to add talking to typing and clicking to input data into any form, template or app.
Industry News,
Posted 15 Aug 2011
New clinical documentation platform takes advantage of M*Modal's Speech Understanding technology.
Industry News,
Posted 12 Aug 2011
Subscribers can now use Nuance services to access voicemail messages.
Industry News,
Posted 09 Aug 2011
Supporting Dutch, French, and German, Dragon apps let users in Belgium speak text for email, text messages, Web content, and more.
Industry News,
Posted 05 Aug 2011
Hundreds of people shared their stories of how speech technologies help in their personal and professional lives.
News Feature,
Posted 29 Jul 2011
Verbble allows users to speak into any form at their desks or on the go.
Industry News,
Posted 29 Jul 2011
Speech recognition application for Mac adds full support for Microsoft Word 2011, social media sharing, and formatting and editing features.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Jul 2011
T-Mobile's Genius Button gets even smarter with new voice-enabled wake up commands.
Industry News,
Posted 20 Jul 2011
New iPad EHR app uses M*Modal's Speech Understanding technology to voice-enable its medical documentation platform.
Industry News,
Posted 20 Jul 2011
OnStar FMV lets drivers speak to get directions and make hands-free phone calls in the car.
Industry News,
Posted 19 Jul 2011
Language identification technology automatically determines whether message was spoken in English or Spanish.
Industry News,
Posted 19 Jul 2011
The acquisition adds to Nuance's transcription services and clinical understanding solutions portfolio.
News Feature,
Posted 15 Jul 2011
The deal is worth $130 million and brings together two medical documentation leaders.
News Feature,
Posted 14 Jul 2011
More than 50 million people in the U.S. have now called one or more YouMail Visual Voicemail users.
Industry News,
Posted 07 Jul 2011
Cover Story,
Posted 01 Jul 2011
Dragon apps continue their global expansion as users in the Netherlands can speak text for email, text messages, Web searches and more in Dutch.
Industry News,
Posted 29 Jun 2011
Mindshare Speech-To-Text voice-of-the-customer tool transcribes customers' phone comments and uncovers actionable information.
News Feature,
Posted 24 Jun 2011
Nuance's four-in-one keypad for Android smartphones and tablets now lets users talk, type, tap, or trace, in Spanish.
Industry News,
Posted 16 Jun 2011
Version 11.5 adds new social media sharing capabilities, correction and editing features, and more.
News Feature,
Posted 13 Jun 2011
New service is available on select MetroPCS mobile devices.
Industry News,
Posted 06 Jun 2011
Dragon Apps continue their Asian expansion with support for Cantonese and Taiwan Mandarin.
Industry News,
Posted 03 Jun 2011
M*Modal will integrate its technology with the Boston medical center's own radiology information system.
Industry News,
Posted 02 Jun 2011
Custom-designed speech recognition app gives the hearing impaired freedom to engage in personal multi-language conversations.
Industry News,
Posted 01 Jun 2011
Dragon apps' Latin American debut gives Mexican iOS users the ability to speak text for email, text messages, Web searches, and more in Spanish.
Industry News,
Posted 25 May 2011
SVOX reveals popularity of text-to-speech voices with over 340,000 downloads since engine launch; discovers consumers prefer female text-to-speech voices to male
News Feature,
Posted 23 May 2011
Dictation and Search apps are now available in the Korean Apple App Store.
Industry News,
Posted 20 May 2011
New features extend the labor management and productivity reporting capabilities of the Jennifer solution from Lucas Systems.
Industry News,
Posted 18 May 2011
Version 4.1 features "bucket brigade" picking capabilities and batch and split assigning.
Industry News,
Posted 18 May 2011
Eleven firms are named in the latest patent infringement cases
Industry News,
Posted 11 May 2011
Doctors can now use their iPhones to dictate medical cases and streamline workflow.
Industry News,
Posted 09 May 2011
Advanced dictation application is among a suite of apps built especially for doctors making the rounds.
Industry News,
Posted 04 May 2011
Klausner settles its patent infringement lawsuits with the four firms, which were named as defendants.
Industry News,
Posted 29 Apr 2011
Hamilton Relay's Voice Carry Over (VCO) capabilities are now available via mobile device for residents of Maine.
Industry News,
Posted 28 Apr 2011
Company adding positions to its headquarters in Aurora, Nebraska to handle captioned telephone calls.
Industry News,
Posted 27 Apr 2011
New SpeechExec Enterprise 4.0 boosts Citrix-ready status, a refreshed interface design, and advanced speech-recognition workflow.
Industry News,
Posted 21 Apr 2011
M*Modal's Speech Understanding platform adds productivity capabilities to transcription workflow platform.
Industry News,
Posted 13 Apr 2011
This latest implementation puts Hamilton Relay in 18 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Industry News,
Posted 13 Apr 2011
The partnership will bring voice recognition to in-car navigation systems.
Industry News,
Posted 12 Apr 2011
The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute concludes that drivers are safer using voice-based systems for texting while in the car.
News Feature,
Posted 11 Apr 2011
The U.S. Department of Defense certifies Nuance's radiology speech recognition reporting platform for use across Air Force, Army, and Navy networks.
Industry News,
Posted 30 Mar 2011
Leading carrier in Brazil lets subscribers read voicemail messages as transcribed SMS text messages.
Industry News,
Posted 30 Mar 2011
New voice-activated email, SMS, Facebook, and Twitter service from SuperTooth launches.
Industry News,
Posted 24 Mar 2011
Yap Voicemail app is now available to 10 million Android users with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.
News Feature,
Posted 23 Mar 2011
Unique four-in-one keypad lets consumers speak, trace, type, or tap to stay connected.
News Feature,
Posted 23 Mar 2011
Enhancement expands voice-enabled selection, put-away, replenishment, loading, and cycle-counting functionality.
Industry News,
Posted 23 Mar 2011
Automated voice recognition provider is now offering Spanish voice-to-text services.
Industry News,
Posted 22 Mar 2011
RedPrairie will resell Jennifer VoicePlus to new and existing RedPrairie customers, leveraging open, industry-standard mobile computers that support flexible, efficient voice-plus workflows.
Industry News,
Posted 22 Mar 2011
The voicemail-to-text solution was developed jointly with Ditech Networks.
Industry News,
Posted 22 Mar 2011
Sprint is first carrier to allow customers to use their existing mobile number as their Google Voice number without porting.
Industry News,
Posted 21 Mar 2011
Nuance's Missed Call Messenger ensures Movistar subscribers get the message every time with transcribed voice messages delivered as text.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Mar 2011
Winscribe BPM 2.0 is specially designed for for mid-size law firms.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Mar 2011
New YouCaption software allows users to upload captioning to audio, video, and phone conferences in near real time.
Industry News,
Posted 02 Mar 2011
AVST customers can now enjoy the benefits of Ditech's PhoneTag service.
Industry News,
Posted 02 Mar 2011
The company works with Nuance to expand the system's vocabulary to 19 languages.
News Feature,
Posted 28 Feb 2011
Cloud-based platform provides global healthcare developers access to speech recognition and clinical language understanding technologies.
Industry News,
Posted 23 Feb 2011
This strategic partnership will offer the new PrimeSPEECH Module
Industry News,
Posted 22 Feb 2011
Vendors unite to create new technology for clinical documentation improvement.
Industry News,
Posted 17 Feb 2011
This joint research effort will integrate IBM's Watson and Nuance's voice and clinical language solutions to provide enhanced access to critical and timely information.
Industry News,
Posted 17 Feb 2011
Four-in-one keypad app lets users speak, trace, write, or tap with expanded language support for U.S. and U.K. English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.
Industry News,
Posted 15 Feb 2011
the partnership delivers advanced messaging applications available to carriers, enterprises and consumers.
Industry News,
Posted 15 Feb 2011
Ditech Networks' voice-to-text products are now available in English, German, Spanish, and French.
Industry News,
Posted 10 Feb 2011
Web-based licensing and a new user interface are among the software's enhancements.
Industry News,
Posted 10 Feb 2011
Google has created a way for Egyptians to call in their Twitter feeds and have them posted online.
News Feature,
Posted 03 Feb 2011
Partnership delivers enhanced voicemail and messaging applications
Industry News,
Posted 03 Feb 2011
Interactive Intelligence will offer the Yap service as an addition to its applications for contact center automation, enterprise IP telephony, and business process automation.
Industry News,
Posted 03 Feb 2011
The new offering is expected to drive additional adoption in Canada, is the 10th language added in six months.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Jan 2011
Dragon Mobile SDK gives developers the ability to voice-enable iOS and Android apps.
News Feature,
Posted 20 Jan 2011
Global Industry Analysts projects that the speech technology industry will grow to $20.9 billion by 2015.
News Feature,
Posted 13 Jan 2011
The two companies are increasing speech-activated command and control functions for in-car navigation, music, and information systems.
Industry News,
Posted 11 Jan 2011
As the economy rebounds, voice solutions continue to build use cases.
Cover Story,
Posted 08 Jan 2011
Nuance and Ford extend SYNC and Voice Services Platform to the global application developer ecosystem.
Industry News,
Posted 06 Jan 2011
App for Android combines Dragon Dictation, T9 Trace, T9 Write and XT9 to deliver a complete multimodal input experience.
Industry News,
Posted 06 Jan 2011
Lab sessions gave companies the opportunity to showcase their latest products.
Feature,
Posted 05 Jan 2011
Ultimate goal is to develop tools to better integrate speech with the Web.
Standards,
Posted 05 Jan 2011
Using a hybrid of voice technologies, the new vText app gives iPhone users another option for voice to text.
Industry News,
Posted 23 Dec 2010
Yap automatically converts spoken messages into text for Jawbone's THOUGHTS iPhone app.
Industry News,
Posted 14 Dec 2010
New point-of-care app empowers clinicians to dictate when and where they want; dictations are instantly sent for speech recognition processing and transcription editing on Nuance HIM platforms.
Industry News,
Posted 14 Dec 2010
New service enables mobile operators to offer premium voicemail service, highlighted by transcription of voicemail messages to text.
Industry News,
Posted 09 Dec 2010
Listening to long and rambling messages is the top reason users dislike voicemail, according to a Yap study.
News Feature,
Posted 07 Dec 2010
Nuance releases Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search in Spanish.
News Feature,
Posted 02 Dec 2010
Verdatum integrates its digital dictation work flow solution with ProLaw.
Industry News,
Posted 01 Dec 2010
Provider of dictation solutions joins Citrix Ready Partner Program and earns certification for digital dictation management software.
Industry News,
Posted 30 Nov 2010
PowerScribe 360 advances radiology documentation beyond dictation and reporting: Dragon Medical speech recognition engine and multiple productivity, communication, and administration tools redefine industry standard.
Industry News,
Posted 30 Nov 2010
Fully integrated, outsourced medical transcription solution empowers healthcare organizations to lower costs and prioritize core business activities and patient care initiatives.
Industry News,
Posted 19 Nov 2010
Captions of phone conversations are now available for Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry with advanced network capabilities.
Industry News,
Posted 16 Nov 2010
Fully automated text voicemail transcriptions is now available to all Phone.com customers.
Industry News,
Posted 09 Nov 2010
Service is similar to closed-captioning for television programming.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Nov 2010
New VCX Platform features mailbox options, multiple numbers, conference calling, voicemail-to-text transcription, and more.
Industry News,
Posted 05 Nov 2010
Nuance will power the Genius button's Hands-Free Messaging on T-Mobile MyTouch 4G.
News Feature,
Posted 04 Nov 2010
Hope Technology School gives autistic students a new way to be heard.
Deployments,
Posted 01 Nov 2010
A broadband voice and data provider sees improved customer service with solutions from Junction Networks and PhoneTag.
Deployments,
Posted 01 Nov 2010
TTS and speech recognition combine with traditional voicemail platforms to make for a more interactive messaging experience.
News Feature,
Posted 26 Oct 2010
Integrated solution simplifies access to voice messages through mobile devices for BroadWorks customers.
Industry News,
Posted 26 Oct 2010
Newest audio recording device given highest rating for superior integration with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11
Industry News,
Posted 26 Oct 2010
Results of a new survey in the U.K. renews calls for drivers to embrace speech technologies behind the wheel.
Industry News,
Posted 12 Oct 2010
Agreement focused on advancing natural language processing technologies to drive evidence-based care and improve patient outcomes.
News Feature,
Posted 07 Oct 2010
Visual Messaging is available with voicemail transcription and new ways to manage messages.
Industry News,
Posted 06 Oct 2010
Free, automated voice messaging service is now available to iPhone users.
Industry News,
Posted 06 Oct 2010
New service makes online video social and searchable.
News Feature,
Posted 27 Sep 2010
The speech application for Mac OS X uses Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 engine.
News Feature,
Posted 20 Sep 2010
Transcribed voicemail messages delivered for free to customers' email inboxes.
Industry News,
Posted 14 Sep 2010
The company hopes to serve larger medical practices with its new solution.
News Feature,
Posted 09 Sep 2010
The company predicts strong growth in voicemail-to-text services.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Sep 2010
The company now provides captioned telephone services in 18 states and the District of Columbia.
Industry News,
Posted 07 Sep 2010
The application will be helpful to the hearing impaired.
News Feature,
Posted 02 Sep 2010
Nuance will continue to provide SaskTel with Voicemail to Text Transcription in both English and French Canadian
News Feature,
Posted 25 Aug 2010
Clinicians can search medical references and get results from medical Web sites all at once on their iPhones.
Industry News,
Posted 19 Aug 2010
The system also contains a workflow solution, digital voice recorders, and a Web portal.
Industry News,
Posted 19 Aug 2010
Latest version of dictation management software improves productivity by integrating with Windows 7 and speech recording devices.
Industry News,
Posted 12 Aug 2010
BigHand for Healthcare is a customized voice productivity solution that replaces analogue or tape-based systems used in medical dictation and transcription.
Industry News,
Posted 03 Aug 2010
The company says this version will be faster and easier to use.
News Feature,
Posted 29 Jul 2010
Audio Eye makes congresswoman's official Web site accessible to the disabled via TTS and video captioning.
News Feature,
Posted 27 Jul 2010
The company is adding 100,000 new paid 'Bubblers' per week and plans rollouts in other countries.
Industry News,
Posted 20 Jul 2010
OnSIP customers can now receive transcribed voicemails in their email inbox.
Industry News,
Posted 20 Jul 2010
Many factors play into how well a speech recognition engine adapts to the characteristics of each speaker.
Sounding Board,
Posted 16 Jul 2010
The platform also allows the user to capture information
News Feature,
Posted 12 Jul 2010
French joins English and Spanish on PhoneTag voice-to-text transcription service.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Jul 2010
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust puts patients first with implementation of BigHand digital dictation software.
Industry News,
Posted 01 Jul 2010
New partnership brings workflow management to dictation systems.
Industry News,
Posted 22 Jun 2010
The company hopes to achieve 90 percent accuracy or better
News Feature,
Posted 21 Jun 2010
Analytics tool offers audit trail, historical analysis, drill down, and custom report design.
Industry News,
Posted 21 Jun 2010
Newest additions to TomTom's voice library from Nickelodeon make family adventures more enjoyable.
Industry News,
Posted 18 Jun 2010
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust has decided to choose BigHand for a Trust wide digital dictation project, incorporating over 300 users across all specialties.
Industry News,
Posted 11 Jun 2010
The organization hopes to collaborate, improving connected car voice technology.
News Feature,
Posted 09 Jun 2010
BigHand for iPhone Dictation App boosts support for professionals who work out of the office regularly and need to produce documents on the go.
Industry News,
Posted 04 Jun 2010
Voicemail transcripts can be read, stored, and shared with others.
Industry News,
Posted 25 May 2010
The Audioo platform lets users auto-stream, publicly share, and store voicemails from handsets and services like Google Voice.
News Feature,
Posted 25 May 2010
Research collaboration aims to break barriers with conversational and intelligent speech products.
News Feature,
Posted 21 May 2010
The first truly hands-free speakerphone allows users to communicate completely through voice commands.
News Feature,
Posted 17 May 2010
Cloud-based solution features 100 percent speech recognition, template-based reporting, and automated distribution.
Industry News,
Posted 13 May 2010
New dictation management platform is designed to boost efficiency and productivity in documentation-intensive businesses.
Industry News,
Posted 04 May 2010
Company cites growing demand for a its technologies and services across Northern Europe.
Industry News,
Posted 04 May 2010
Businesses can benefit from an expanded audience base.
FYI,
Posted 03 May 2010
The physical therapy provider expands its dictation solution to include front-end speech recognition.
Deployments,
Posted 03 May 2010
Klausner Technologies files suit alleging visual voicemail patent infringement.
Industry News,
Posted 28 Apr 2010
Yap provides fully automated voicemail-to-text transcription for Iperia.
Industry News,
Posted 23 Apr 2010
BlackBerry smartphone users can now access the power of Dragon NaturallySpeaking to dictate directly into email.
Industry News,
Posted 22 Apr 2010
Following an initial pilot, typing turnaround times have been reduced by 21 days and urgent clinical correspondence is being completed and sent within 24 hours.
Industry News,
Posted 21 Apr 2010
Multiple transcription options offer flexibility in quality, price, and functionality.
Industry News,
Posted 13 Apr 2010
New application lets drivers listen to and respond to messages without ever looking at their phone.
News Feature,
Posted 09 Apr 2010
Several key senior management changes follow the deal.
Industry News,
Posted 07 Apr 2010
Customer voicemail is converted to text and delivered as text messages or email with sound files attached.
Industry News,
Posted 06 Apr 2010
Optimized for iPad, free new dictation app lets users speak text for email, documents, status updates, notes, and more.
Industry News,
Posted 05 Apr 2010
New mobile application allows users to send and manage group notification on the go.
Industry News,
Posted 31 Mar 2010
Nuance takes comfort from the support that the technology receives.
News Feature,
Posted 30 Mar 2010
Tropo now supports Twitter, SMS, IM, and voice interactions from anywhere to any application.
Industry News,
Posted 25 Mar 2010
Cisco SpeechView with Nuance Voice-to-Text improves communication and boosts productivity for today's mobile enterprise workforce.
Industry News,
Posted 24 Mar 2010
The company brings cost-effective smartphone transcription services to legal and business sectors.
Industry News,
Posted 22 Mar 2010
Sprint subscribers can now speak text messages and email.
Industry News,
Posted 22 Mar 2010
Changing the Game: Ribbit enables quantum leaps in productivity.
Feature,
Posted 08 Mar 2010
The company brings its speech technologies to new audiences and devices.
FYI,
Posted 08 Mar 2010
Speech Solutions,
Posted 08 Mar 2010
Can speech make it on mobile devices?
Voice Value,
Posted 08 Mar 2010
The move is seen as a shot in the arm for speech technologies.
News Feature,
Posted 05 Mar 2010
Advanced mobile point-of-care solutions deliver real-time speech recognition, dictation, and search capabilities.
Industry News,
Posted 02 Mar 2010
BigHand creates dedicated client services function to ensure service levels are maintained as growth continues.
Industry News,
Posted 01 Mar 2010
Voice-to-text company teams with provider of hosted VoIP services to help small businesses manage communications.
Industry News,
Posted 24 Feb 2010
Company launches its lates iteration of BigHand for BlackBerry software.
Industry News,
Posted 23 Feb 2010
The deal extends the Dragon NaturallySpeaking family to the Mac.
News Feature,
Posted 16 Feb 2010
A new chip from Sensory provides a truly hands-free voice interface for many typical household products.
News Feature,
Posted 16 Feb 2010
uReach Technologies partners with Yap to help carriers address this need.
Industry News,
Posted 16 Feb 2010
What the company calls "the world's most advanced personal transcription solution for the Macintosh" boasts up to 99 percent accuracy.
Industry News,
Posted 12 Feb 2010
BigHand signs up three trusts via the Yorkshire and Humber NHS Framework.
Industry News,
Posted 11 Feb 2010
Kirsop & Co. implements BigHand voice technology to enhance remote working capabilities.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Feb 2010
Virgin Mobile Canada delivers voicemail-to-text service as a standard feature across its Value-to-Premium rate plan portfolio.
Industry News,
Posted 04 Feb 2010
Jon Ardron named new CEO of dictation software provider.
Industry News,
Posted 03 Feb 2010
The company signs two big clients, demonstrating growing interest among enterprises and carriers.
News Feature,
Posted 22 Jan 2010
Users can download the software for free; Android is the next platform being developed.
Industry News,
Posted 14 Jan 2010
iPod Touch users can now take advantage of Nuance's Dragon Mobile Apps; Dragon Dictation now features automatic end-of-speech detection.
Industry News,
Posted 11 Jan 2010
A healthcare provider switches from typing to transcription.
Deployments,
Posted 10 Jan 2010
This is an iPhone application that gets it right.
Forward Thinking,
Posted 10 Jan 2010
iSpeech announces two-way texting and emailing via voice on next-generation DriveSafe.ly 2.0 mobile app for smartphones.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Jan 2010
The solution offers drivers an easy way to send and listen to email and text messages using only their voices.
Industry News,
Posted 07 Jan 2010
Ditech's PhoneTag Live service turns any phone call into actionable and searchable data.
Industry News,
Posted 07 Jan 2010
Loquendo claims great advancements in spoken language understanding.
Industry News,
Posted 21 Dec 2009
Fourteen-day free trial available for Optus Post-Paid mobile customers.
Industry News,
Posted 08 Dec 2009
Voicemail messages come directly to users as multimedia messages and email.
Industry News,
Posted 02 Dec 2009
Company to introduce SpeechQ for General Medicine product line.
Industry News,
Posted 01 Dec 2009
New speech-enabled solution gives radiologists immediate access to information during documentation process.
Industry News,
Posted 01 Dec 2009
Wireless version of professional audio recording device designed legal and healthcare users.
Industry News,
Posted 24 Nov 2009
Enterprise customers can now use PhoneTag on premises and behind the firewall.
Industry News,
Posted 18 Nov 2009
Sprint customers can now read their voicemail with PhoneTag.com.
Industry News,
Posted 10 Nov 2009
Back-end voice-to-text capability, supported on BlackBerry Smartphones and Windows Mobile, offers business and healthcare significant administrative time & cost savings.
Industry News,
Posted 05 Nov 2009
SpeechTEK's first ever European event
Industry News,
Posted 28 Aug 2009
The company says the offering eliminates entry barriers for natural language IVR applications because developers no longer have to build complex grammars and create back-end artificial intelligence.
News Feature,
Posted 12 Mar 2009
The U.S. Army looks to Nuance for medical transcription services at home and abroad.
News Feature,
Posted 18 Feb 2009
SpinVox opens NYC office, sets sights on a bigger slice of American market.
News Feature,
Posted 05 Feb 2009
Jott's customers forward their unanswered wireless calls to Voxbone DIDs, which relay them to Jott's voice-to-text transcription service.
Industry News,
Posted 04 Feb 2009
The deal allows the company to expand into speech recognition and speech dialogue solutions.
News Feature,
Posted 26 Jan 2009
Company partners with M*Modal to add a new dimensions to its medical records transcription products.
Industry News,
Posted 06 Jan 2009
Nuance Communications marks the centennial of its leading dictation brand.
FYI,
Posted 22 Dec 2008
Leveraging GotVoice's technologies, voicemail messages become viewable as text on mobile devices or computers.
Industry News,
Posted 16 Dec 2008
Anglican church's vicar uses voice-to-text solution to transmit sermons to those not at Sunday services.
News Feature,
Posted 15 Dec 2008
Radiology solutions provider Brit Systems announced the release of a stand-alone dictation, transcription, report distribution, and optional voice recognition solution.
News Feature,
Posted 05 Dec 2008
IMS chooses Loquendo ASR and TTS to power its iLane in-vehicle email- and text-reading solution.
News Feature,
Posted 01 Dec 2008
Phone service carrier to offer wireless functionality on landline home telephones.
News Feature,
Posted 25 Nov 2008
Partnership will result in the development of South-African English and Afrikaans for teliSpeech Recognizer.
Industry News,
Posted 21 Nov 2008
Avaya, Mutare, and SpinVox team to deliver the first-of-its-kind solution for corporate environments.
News Feature,
Posted 12 Nov 2008
Company touts its newest engine as the highest-quality sub-1 MB Text-to-Speech system available.
Industry News,
Posted 11 Nov 2008
Users Can Receive High-Quality Transcriptions of All Voicemails via SMS or Email
News Feature,
Posted 07 Nov 2008
Healthcare provider organizations achieve innovation, productivity, and cost savings through their use of Nuance's healthcare solutions.
News Feature,
Posted 03 Nov 2008
TravellingWave integrates its VoicePredict speech recognition products with Zi's text-prediction products to speed the typing of text messages.
News Feature,
Posted 29 Oct 2008
New features make the software more accurate over time.
News Feature,
Posted 20 Oct 2008
Movistar Chile and SpinVox team up to offer voice-to-text service in Chile.
News Feature,
Posted 03 Oct 2008
Nuance Communications acquired Philips Speech Recognition Systems for $96.1 million to expand its healthcare-related business in Europe.
News Feature,
Posted 01 Oct 2008
National radio broadcasting network NPR announced plans today that it has taken steps to make its programs accessible to both the deaf and blind.
News Feature,
Posted 08 Jan 2008
U.S. forces in Iraq are stepping up field testing of speech translation devices.
Cover Story,
Posted 01 Apr 2007
Cincinnati Bell is becoming the first U.S. wireless carrier to offer a service that converts wireless voicemail messages into text messages or email.
FYI,
Posted 01 Apr 2007
By extending the capabilities of its etalk Contact Center portfolio, Autonomy is taking a new approach to contact center management
FYI,
Posted 01 Mar 2007
In the latest version of its Conversational Access Technologies (CAT) report, Opus Research notes that speech-enabled self-service is growing faster than other IT spending.
FYI,
Posted 01 Mar 2007
While increased use of instant messaging (IM) in the enterprise, along with the proliferation of features like file sharing and white-boarding, make voice over IM (VoIM) an attractive option, VoIM service providers must tackle ease-of-use and interoperability issues before the technology will become more widespread, according to a new report by Light Reading's Enterprise VoIP Insider.
FYI,
Posted 01 Mar 2007
Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH), a 785-bed teaching health care facility located in New York City's fastest growing borough of 450,000 inhabitants, is a recognized leader in innovative, technology-based medicine.
Deployments,
Posted 01 Mar 2006
What is – or, more accurately – what was a voice portal? One definition offered by the “Computing Dictionary” describes voice portals as “an interactive voice response (IVR) front end to a data retrieval system … being positioned mainly by carriers as wide-scale applications, offering things like specialized audio ‘infotainment’ services, real-time news, and stock quotes.” These sites offered engaging speech-enabled dialog available 24/7 from any standard telephone. …
Feature,
Posted 30 Aug 2005
According to Daniel Hong, voice business analyst at Datamonitor, the global voice business value chain* will grow from $716 million for 2004 to $1,939 million by 2009 at a CAGR of 22 percent. Speech Technology Magazine presents the third annual Most Innovative Solutions awards in recognition of the enterprises and service providers who are deploying innovative speech applications driving this growth. These applications are an integral touch point of their customers' contact with them and…
Feature,
Posted 20 Jun 2005
From the editor: Welcome to Innovations - Speech Technology with Impact. Normally in each issue we have a section for notable press releases, but over time this has grown redundant with our Speech Technology Magazine NewsBlasts. So starting this month we are replacing press releases with a new column on innovations or speech technology with impact.
Voice Value,
Posted 26 Apr 2005
When the U.S. Congress re-wrote the Americans with Disabilities Act to ensure equal accessibility to technology by those who are visually or physically impaired, the legislation (known as Section 508 - see sidebar) potentially benefited many more people than those with disabilities. Boiled down, Section 508 states that it's illegal for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it provides to members of the public. Personal…
Feature,
Posted 26 Apr 2005
According to the American Medical Association (AMA), there is a nationwide shortage of more than 168,000 nurses and other health care professionals. With 60 percent of emergency rooms working at or above capacity, it is essential that hospitals utilize their staff and time carefully, which is becoming more difficult to accomplish as more and more people are turning to the emergency room for care. CDC reports from 2002 estimate that approximately 110.2 million visits were…
Feature,
Posted 06 Mar 2005
Human-computer dialogue systems have claimed center stage in the speech industry bowinghappily to the kudos of an accepting marketplace. This is the inverse of the state of affairs that existed in the mid-1990s when PC-based dictation using statistical processing was clearly the industry's star. Shrink-wrapped general dictation products were awarded extensive shelf space in computer stores and the speech industry had visions of a speech revolution built atop boxes of Dragon NaturallySpeaking® (DNS) and ViaVoice. …
Feature,
Posted 06 Mar 2005