Category: Travel/Transportation
CallCommand Changes Name to OneCommand
CallCommand, provider of integrated communications solutions, announced Monday that it has renamed itself to OneCommand. The new name is meant to indicate the company's focus on unified communications and customer retention in its core automotive dealer market.
Industry News, Posted 02 Jan 2008
Advanced Analytics Offer Greater Precision
The latest technology goes beyond simple audio mining for words and phrases.
Feature, Posted 01 May 2007
Planning a Trip in Austin Just Got Easier
City's transit authority rolls out IVR to handle basic bus information.
Deployments, Posted 01 Apr 2007
Another Perk for Frequent Flyers
South African Airways improves customer service with upgraded IVR.
Deployments, Posted 01 Apr 2007
Hosted Speech: Trend or Foe?
A roundtable discussion with members of the hosted speech community reveals the benefits and concerns with a hosted speech solution
Feature, Posted 01 Mar 2007
IVR Fuels Additional Sales at an Auto Dealer
Automated call solution has led to $70,000 in additional service department revenue
Deployments, Posted 01 Mar 2007
ASR Cleared for Takeoff
Air traffic controllers have a new voice that is automating the training process
Deployments, Posted 30 Jan 2007
Continental Airlines Takes Off with Speech
While many of its competitors are still floundering in the wake of 9/11 and rising fuel prices, Continental Airlines' stock price has nearly tripled since October 2005. Clearly, Continental is doing a few things right and one of them is its speech technology.
Cover Story, Posted 09 Nov 2006
Sleeping Easy with Web and Phone Integration
Travelodge multiplies occupancy rates with 24/7 phone bookings.
Deployments, Posted 09 Nov 2006
SOA: Connecting the Pieces
Service-oriented architecture can enable IVRs to communicate valuable information from a company's computer network.
Feature, Posted 09 Nov 2006
The 511 Revolution: All Travel Information, All the Time
Feature, Posted 03 Jul 2006
TravellingWave Awarded NSF Grant for Speech-to-Text Messaging
The National Science Foundation recently awarded a grant to TravellingWave for support of its Speech-to-Text Messaging project.
Industry News, Posted 16 May 2006
Travelodge Offers 24/7 Phone Bookings With Fluency Virtual Agent
- Travelodge, a UK budget hotel brand is offering 24/7 phone bookings with Fluency Voice Technology's speech self-service solution. >
Industry News, Posted 02 May 2006
Carlson Leisure Travel Services Selects Fluency Voice Technology to Deploy Enterprise Speech Recognition Applications
LONDON and NEW YORK - Carlson Leisure Travel Services (CLTS), a division of Carlson Leisure Group (CLG), has deployed a Fluency speech recognition IVR application.
Industry News, Posted 01 Nov 2005
What Happened to Voice Portals?
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
Premier Travel Inn UK Deploys ScanSoft's Speech-Based Booking System
PEABODY, Mass. and GHENT, Belgium - Premier Travel Inn has deployed a ScanSoft® speech-based reservations system, called TINA (Travel Inn Now Automated).
Industry News, Posted 01 May 2005
Kevin Hegebarth, Director of Strategic Planning, Witness Systems
Kevin Hegebarth, directof of strategic planning for Witness Systems explains that "having speech analysis software effectively listen to all calls recorded by the enterprise, classify those interactions based on what was said in the conversation, and provide trend data over time is like having thousands of supervisors working around the clock."
Q & A, Posted 01 Mar 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
Market Designs Partners with NetByTel to Expand Speech Recognition Within Travel & Hospitality
Market Designs announced that it is partnering with NetByTel.
Industry News, Posted 01 Feb 2005
VDOT Launches Statewide 511 System for Traffic and Travel Information
RICHMOND, Va. - The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) launched the 511 Virginia system.
Industry News, Posted 01 Feb 2005
Intervoice Announces Support for Microsoft Smarter Hospitality
From Hotels - Intervoice, Inc. announced its support for Microsoft's Smarter Hospitality initiative, a solutions framework for helping lodging and food service organizations improve how they interact with their guests while laying the groundwork for future innovations.
Industry News, Posted 01 Nov 2004
Speech in the Travel Industry
Vertical market applications are a subject dear to the hearts of marketers in the contact center and speech technology field. Finance, healthcare and education are typical of the "low hanging fruit" vendors have long focused on, with others, such as government, getting attention as the next potential for the big sales kill. Although there are some surprisingly interesting applications associated with these verticals, as a whole they aren't the most exciting customer-facing applications out there.
Cover Story, Posted 24 May 2004
Voxify Introduces Automated Agents for Travel Industry Call Centers
Speech-driven automated call center agents have the conversational skills to handle advanced customer service calls.
Industry News, Posted 01 Apr 2004
Angel.com Provides Business to Business Speech Solution for the Travel and Expense Industry
MCLEAN, VA - Outtask's voice-enabled travel and expense solutions launched, developed on Angel.com's Voice Site platform.
Industry News, Posted 01 Aug 2003
Globus Travel Selects Edify for CRM
SANTA CLARA, CA - Edify Corporation announced that it has been selected by Globus and Cosmos to implement a major upgrade of their customer service operations.
Industry News, Posted 01 Apr 2003
KY Transportation Cabinet Launches 511 Traveler Information Number
FRANKFORT, KY - Just in time for holiday travel, a new service to assist Kentucky's travelers was launched by Gov. Paul Patton. By dialing three digits, 5-1-1, callers can now get traffic, travel and road weather information 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Industry News, Posted 01 Dec 2002
Speech and the Automobile
No matter where you get your car and driver news, you've probably seen the recent flurry of headlines reporting new implementations of voice recognition technology in cars - and not just in high-end cars, but in midrange autos such as Honda. As little as ten years ago, something like voice recognition technology in the automobile sounded positively space age to most, but today, voice and wireless technology are becoming more and more commonplace in the ultimate mobile device—the car. But will these on-board communications capabilities change the way we drive, the way we interact with our cars?
Feature, Posted 21 Nov 2002
BeVocal, BellSouth to Launch 511 Information Service in Eight States
BeVocal and BellSouth have been selected to deploy a 511 voice recognition system for an eight-state region covering more than 17 million citizens.
Industry News, Posted 01 Jul 2002
Air Travel Industry Takes Off With InfoTalk-Air
HONG KONG, BEIJING and SINGAPORE - InfoTalk Corporation announced the general release of InfoTalk-Air, a voice-enabled solution specially designed for the air travel industry.
Industry News, Posted 01 Jun 2002
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Companies: Travel/Transportation
Cepstral, LLC
ClickFox, Inc.
Convergys Corporation
Envox Worldwide
Gold Systems
MicroAutomation
Right Voice, Inc.
SDC Solutions, Inc.
SER Solutions, Inc.
Syntellect
TuVox, Inc.
VoiceObjects
West Interactive
Wizzard Software
CreaLog GmbH
Empirix, Inc.
Intervoice
Ivrnet
Nuance Communications, Inc.
Tellme, a Microsoft Subsidiary


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