Sensory announced the release of the Fluent Speech Software Development Kit (SDK).
NEW YORK, NY - Ectaco Inc. presents Ectaco Language Support localizers for Pocket PC.
ATLANTA, GA - Fast-Talk announced that Aspen Systems Corporation, an information management company, joined the Fast-Talk value-added reseller program.
SRC unveiled two new hosted speech recognition based services to the call center environment - SRC ContactCapture and SRC PaymentCapture.
BERKELY HEIGHTS, NJ and PARIS, FRANCE - Kirusa, together with Telisma announced that they had entered into an agreement with France Telecom to perform multimodal trials using the Orange GPRS network in France.
ATLANTA, GA - ART Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. announced the porting of its smARTspeak XG speech recognition solution to processors from Motorola Inc.
MONTREAL, QUEBEC - Elix announcesthatGenesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc. has chosen Elix to offer collaborative and unified trainingservices to Genesys customers and partners.
General Magic announced that its efforts to obtain additional financing or to complete a strategic merger or acquisition have been unsuccessful.
TORONTO, CANADA and PORTLAND, OR - VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. and Vesta Corporation are working together to provide progressive CRM services in the prepaid wireless industry.
MINSK, BELARUS - Sakrament company introduced Sakrament SpeechBOX for Sakrament TTS Engine, an evaluation board that designed for demonstration purposes of an embedded TTS engine.
GALWAY, IRELAND - SyberNet Ltd. has announced the launch of SyberVOX, a next-generation speech recognition solution.
TROY, MI - Clarity LLC announced that it has engaged N-Teq Ltd., a UK-based sales and marketing organization, to extend and further support Clarity's selling and marketing efforts throughout Europe.
New York, NY - Ectaco Inc. will be exhibiting several latest developments including OEM Platform (series 400) for Handheld Talking Dictionaries and Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Universal Translator (series 103) at the Frankfurt Book Fair October 9-14, 2002.
Soldiers at 29 U.S. Army bases will soon be able to call fellow military personnel at home and abroad as well as friends and family members via a voice-activated dialing solution powered by Nuance.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - TuVox, a developer ofConversational Voice Response (CVR) technology for call centers, announced the appointment of Jeff Crowe, co-founder and former CEO of EdifyCorporation, to its board of directors.
DALLAS, TX - A widely recognized pioneer in the speech recognition industry, Dr. Thomas Schalk, was named to lead the interactive speech recognition program for telematics service provider, ATX Technologies.
MENLO PARK, CA - Nuance and Amcom recently implemented a Nuance-powered voice activated directory assistance system, Smart Speech, at the Fort Smith, Arkansas-based hospital, Sparks Medical Center.
TORINO, ITALY - Loquendo Technology has been chosen for the Telecom Italia Future Centre, which was inaugurated on the 12th of September in Venice, Italy.
TORINO, ITALY - Loquendo Technology has been chosen by the Crédit Mutuel Group to power their new Telsanté health insurance offering.
BOSTON, MA - SpeechWorks International Inc. announced that Lucent Technologies has selected SpeechWorks' TTS software for the company's unified communications platform, Lucent's AnyPath Messaging System.
BOULDER, CO and SCOTTSDALE, AZ - Call center solutions provider ASA joined forces with communications software company SandCherry Inc. through a Value Added Reseller (VAR) agreement for its SoftServer platform.
STUTTGART, GERMANY - SpeechCo enlarges its range of products in the area of automatic directory assistants BigInfo with an English version.
Voice Web Solutions announced VoiceXML Studio 1.0, a product that enables developers to both visually design and code voice-enabled solutions using the VoiceXML language.
LA JOLLA, CA - IBM announced the new ViaVoice Translator - machine translation software that enables translation on handheld computers.
BOCA RATON, FL and SUNNYVALE, CA - The Vicinity Speech Locator uses proprietary geo-coding and voice recognition that can pinpoint a site using the physical address spoken by the caller.
BOULDER, CO - SandCherry Inc. and Vicorp announced the signing of a three year OEM agreement for SandCherry's SoftServer platform.
TROY, MI - Clarity LLC announced its strategic marketing partnership with Texas-based engineering services company Innovision Design Inc.
FRAMINGHAM, MA - NMS Communications and ICR Group have forged a relationship to assist the delivery of ICR Group's new generation of automated customer interaction solutions, PCid.
ATLANTA, GA and CHICAGO, IL - Glenayre Technologies Inc. sold its 1500th MVP(R) (Modular Voice Processor) messaging platform to U.S. Cellular (Amex: USM), the nation's eighth largest wireless service provider.
Telephonetics has appointed Convergent Systems as an approved reseller. Convergent Systems will initially focus on selling Telephonetics' new virtual operator system, the ContactPortal, into the SME and contact center markets.
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ, DALLAS, TX and NEW YORK CITY - Aumtech Inc. and Philips Electronics' speech processing business unit have partnered to provide JetBlue Airways' clientele with a voice-enabled option to its flight information system.
PHOENIX, AZ - Syntellect Inc. announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with AcclaimTelecom Services Inc.
Pannone & Partners has become the latest law firm to implement a digital dictation workflow and speech recognition solution from SRC. In the initial phase, the technology is being rolled out to 96 staff in the firm's Personal Injury department.
Parlance announced the availability of up-to-date NameConnector Service status reports to all customers.
WHITE PLAINS, NY - Ascent Computing Group announced Ross DiBella as Director of Sales.
MATAWAN, NJ - iVoice Inc. announced the availability of speech recognition at monthly payment prices.
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN and DUSSELDORF, GERMANY - PipeBeach announced that net mobile AG has deployed the PipeBeach speechWebplatform to provide a suite of mobile entertainment services includingKaraoke Mailbox, Mailbox Messages and Mobile Greeting to German mobile operators.
HONG KONG - InfoTalk Corporation announced that E*TRADE has deployed InfoTalk's VoiceXML and speech technologies as the foundation of the newly launched Stock Information and Trading Platform.
LA JOLLA, CA - Vocera Communications Inc. announced availability of its new wireless application, the Vocera Communications System, that enables instant voice communication for in-building mobile personnel.
TROY, MI - Clarity LLC announced that it has engaged AMSC in Tokyo to extend its selling and marketing efforts in Japan, where many of the top consumer electronics companies in the world are based.
RISHON LE-ZION, ISRAEL - Poly Information and NSC today announced an engineering and marketing partnership. The combined solution allows for a mass-market, voice-only communication solution.
MENLO PARK, CA - Nuance introduced Nuance Vocalizer 2.0 text-to-speech (TTS) software for U.K. English, designed to simplify the development of voice-enabled applications.
CHICAGO, IL - ABN AMRO Services Company Inc. announced that it will use Centerpost Corporation's SmartDeliverySMsolution to develop a multi-channel notification service.
CHICAGO, IL - Navigation Technologies announced that VisuAide will develop avoice-enabled navigation application using NAVTECH digital map data.
TOULOUSE, FRANCE - Davi Interactive has chosen Elan Sayso TTS to speech-enable Lucy, one of their virtual hostesses.
REDMOND, WA - Conversay announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Global Keystone to jointly develop a PDA/Smart Phone voice-enabled Conversation Forms Automation (CFA) for hands-free use by doctors and nurses.
FRAMINGHAM, MA - GL Communications Inc. has selected platforms from NMS Communications as the basis for its new network test equipment used by global carriers and network equipment providers worldwide including Cisco, Nortel Networks and AT&T.
Babel Technologies announced that PocketBabil, its Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesizer technology, has been implemented in the new Dutch-language version of WizCom Technologies' Reading Pen II.
MENLO PARK, CA - Nuance announced the appointment of Rod Hamlin to the position of senior vice president of sales. Hamlin will be responsible for managing the company's worldwide sales and professional services organizations.
OTTAWA, CANADA - PIKA Technologies Inc. announced a marketing agreement with SpeechWorks to help telephony developers bring speech-driven solutions to market.
IBM launched its newest voice recognition software for Microsoft Windows: ViaVoice for Windows Release 10 Pro USB Edition.
NEWTON ABBOT, England - AllVoice Computing PLC and IBM Corporation have entered into a licence agreement with regard to certain voice recognition software.
SINGAPORE and HONG KONG - InfoTalk Corporation and Temasek Polytechnic signed a memorandum of understanding that both parties will jointly develop a speech technology laboratory in Temasek Polytechnic.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Corporate Express announced plans to rollout automated order fulfillment systems featuring voice picking technology in 22 distribution centers by the end of 2002.
LONDON, UK - Property firm Chesterton's Glasgow office has completed a six month pilot and is investigating further roll out of a digital dictation workflow solution from SRC.
DALLAS, TX - InterVoice-Brite Inc. announced it received shareholders' approval to change its corporate name to Intervoice Inc.
MONTREAL, CANADA - LocusDialog announces anagreement with North American Communications Resources (NACR) to marketand distribute its LocusDialogSTS suite of speech telephony solutions.