PARIS, FRANCE - Telisma announced the appointment of Jody McStravick as its customer services director. He will manage lead training, professional services, customer services and the pre-sales phase.
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND - D-Link is launching its Speech Server together with SVOX.
Expresiv Technologies announced availability of the Expresiv Enterprise / MD product suite.
TORINO, ITALY - Her name is Monserrat; she is the latest addition to Loquendo TTS - and Loquendo's first Catalan persona.
PARIS, FRANCE - Atos Origin, an IT services firms in Europe, and Telisma, a European developer of speech technologies for telecommunications, announce that they have signed a commercial and technical agreement to target businesses and telecommunications firms.
SAN JOSE, CA - Aspect Communications Corporation announced that the AspectEnterprise Contact Server has been selected by Sabre, the traveltechnology, distribution and marketing services provider.
ATLANTA, GA - ART Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. (ART) announced an agreement with QUALCOMM Incorporated for ART to port its smARTspeak XG software to QUALCOMM's family of CDMA Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipsets.
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND - With SVOX Mobile, the embedded product line for mobile phones, SVOX launches the concatenative text-to-speech for the Symbian OS.
FRANCE - Texte et Relief, a provider of reading aid solutions for the visually impaired, has added Elan's high quality text-to-speech, Elan Sayso, to Ugo, its latest reading solution.
TORONTO, CANADA - CIBC announced the introduction of Audio Access ABM (automated banking machine) service as part of plans for improving access to and upgrading of its network of ABMs across the country.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - Fonix Corporation announced that the Fonix DECtalk formant-based speech synthesizer has been selected by Eintech Co. Ltd. to drive Eintech's Magic Talker's Personal Bilingual Assistant.
Ectaco announces the release of its upgradedPartner EER430T made to order for Ersen Publishing House, an Estonian company.
TORINO, ITALY - Loquendo presents the latest Loquendo TTS development: Paola is the new female Italian voice to accompany the existing voices of Fabio, Marcello, Roberto, Silvana and Valentina.
MADRI, SPAIN - Ydilo announced a suite of voice-recognition-based services for the enterprise and public administration markets aimed at helping companies increase productivity by promoting caller self-service and easy access to corporate information.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Visa International and Vocent announced that the twocompanies have entered into a two-year global strategic alliance.
MANCHESTER, NH - System Development Company of New Hampshire Inc. (SDC) announced that several hospitals are implementing SDC's IntelliSPEECH speech recognition auto-attendant.
New York, NY - Audium announced the general availability of Audium 3.1.
TORINO, ITALY - Loquendo's new VAD - Corporate Service is a speaker-independent employee productivity enhancement application for enterprises of all shapes and sizes.
SAVANNAH, GA - TuVox, a developer of ConversationalVoice Response (CVR) technology for call centers, announced therelease of its latest solution, TuVox 2 CVR.
OTTAWA, CANADA - Pronexus Inc. announced the release of VBVoice 5.0,the telephony development environment to leverage Microsoft Visual Studio.Net.
ZURICH - SVOX and Voxpilot have partnered to consolidate and strengthen both companies' presence on the European market by delivering the benefits of SVOX's TTS engine to Voxpilot's partners and clients.
NEW YORK, NY - Microsoft Corp. announced a series of developments related to its .NET Speech family of products that will allow enterprises to build and deploy speech-enabled applications.
GREENVILLE, SC - Teleco Inc. announces the 4.5 release of Perfect Voice Office Pro (PVO Pro) Unified Communications system offering companies multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) from Nuance and RealSpeak TTS from ScanSoft.
BEDFORD, MA - Phonetic Systems announced that theUniversity of Michigan, Middle Tennessee State, the University of Kansasand Salt Lake Community College have chosen PhoneticOperator tovoice-enable their campus phone directories.
GUJARAT, INDIA and AACHEN, GERMANY - Philips and Celforce announce the launch of Voice Recognition, a speech-enabled voice portal, for Gujarat.
MINSK, BELARUS - Sakrament company announced the availability of its Sakrament Speech Recognition Engine software , that enables voice processing platforms to understand male and female's speech through the spoken word.
SAN JOSE, CA - Aspect Communications Corporation announced that Voicetec willsell and offer systems integration and support services for the Aspect IPContact Suite across Europe.
QUINEBAUG, CT - General Voice releases its latest version of Voice Model Mobility, VMM 3.0.
STRATFORD, CT - Dictaphone Corporation announced that its Communications Recording Systems (CRS) group has signed an agreement with Fast-Talk. The new technology will provide instantaneous location of key words, phrases and proper names in recorded audio files.
TORONTO, CANADA and CAMBRIDGE, UK - VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. and Fluency Voice Technology Ltd. announced their co-marketing and technology partnership agreement.
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND - Siemens Mobile Acceleration announced its investment in SVOX AG. In SVOX's current round of financing, Siemens Mobile Acceleration acted as the sole investor and will support SVOX's way to market entry and a product portfolio.
NEW YORK, NY - Enterprise Integration Group Inc. (EIG) announce at SpeechTEK 2002 the creation of EIGeurope, AG—a joint venture between EIG and Iuno Innovations.
MILTON, KEYNES - Members of the Friends Reunited website service can now listen to voice profile messages from old school mates thanks to a VoiceXML solution created by NewVoiceMedia (NVM) using technology from Aculab.
BEDMINSTER, NJ - Verizon Wireless announced the availability of Voice Gear, a new suite of services that lets subscribers access personal corporate email, make calls and access news, weather, sports and other content from their wireless phone using voice commands.
BOCA RATON, FL - Vocent announced that itsVoice Secure - Password Reset application has been integrated with theOpenSpeech Recognizer recognition engine and SpeechSecure speakerverification technology provided by SpeechWorks International Inc.
Aculab, a provider of enabling technology for the communications market, will unveil and demonstrate at SpeechTek 2002, the latest version of its host based text to speech (TTS) software.
MONTREAL, CANADA - LocusDialog announcedthe deployment of its LocusDialogSTS system to answer calls to Collegeof DuPage's main phone number in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
BOCA RATON, FL - SpeechWorks International Inc. announced the availability of its OpenSpeech MediaServer, expanding the range of deployment options for its OpenSpeech Recognizer speech recognition engine.
SAN DIEGO, CA - LumenVox will be announcing Version 3.0 of their Speech Driven Information System (SDIS) and Speech Recognition Engine (SRE) at SpeechTek 2002, in New York City from October 29th through October 31st.
ISRAEL - ART Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc., developer in natural Human Interface technologies announces that it has joined Symbian's Platinum Partner Program.
MILTON KEYNES, UK - Speechprocessing specialist Aculab is entering the biometrics arena with thelaunch of its own speaker verification and identification (SVI) software atSpeechTEK 2002.
PEABODY, MA and AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS - ScanSoft Inc. and Royal Philips Electronics announced that the companies have signed a definitive agreement whereby ScanSoft will acquire the Philips Speech Processing Telephony and Voice Control business units, and related intellectual property.
Magic English Plus is an English as a Second Language learning application that runs on personal computers.
OTTAWA, CANADA - Chelston Call Systems Ltd., a UK-based telephony developer, is one of the first of PIKA Technologies' customers to use PIKA hardware and software with a VoiceXML-enabled computer telephony platform.
SUDBURY, MA - HomeSeer Technologies LLC has begun marketing the Voice Tracker Microphone, which enables voice interaction with HomeSeer's home automation software from ranges of 20 feet or more.
ORLANDO, FL - SpeechWorks and Intervoice are celebrating more than 100 jointly deployed speech solutions at InterActions, Intervoice's annual education and industry forum held in Orlando, Florida.
LOS ANGELES, CA - In addition to existing offices and development centers in the United States, India and South Korea, this expansion will support HeyAnita's international initiatives.
New York, NY - Commodio Inc. announced Voice Mouse at SpeechTEK 2002 in New York.
Voicevault a has signed a reseller agreement and formed an alliance with VAS (Voice Application Specialists) International.
TEL-AVIV, ISREAL - Elmo-Tech Ltd. and Persay reveal thatPersay's advanced voice authentication solution, Orpheus, will be integrated into Elmo-Tech'smonitoring platform.
PEABODY, MA - ScanSoft Inc. unveiled the ASR-3200, a scalable speech recognition engine for adding voice control capabilities to automotive, mobile and PC applications.
MADRID, SPAIN and BERKELY HEIGHTS, NJ - Kirusa, a developer and licensor of multimodal wireless platforms, has teamed up with Internet Systems, an integrator in the Spanish and Portuguese markets, to deliver Kirusa's multimodal platform to mobile operators and enterprises in Spain and Portugal.
Newfound Communications, a provider of Advanced Grammar Management Technologies, today announced that it is using technology from Phonetic Systems, the leading provider of speech solutions for large or highly dynamic databases, for fast, cost-efficient, high-performance remote speech access to corporate email.
New York & Ottawa - Pronexus Inc. announced the integrated support for Aculab Prosody and Aculab IP telephony PCI cards in the latest release of VBVoice 5.0.
MENLO PARK, CA & HONG KONG - Nuance announced that the company's speech recognition software has been selected for China Netcom's Voice Portal.
Rhetorical announced the launch of rVoice4.0TM at the SpeechTEK Exposition and Conference.
ATLANTA - Glenayre Technologies, Inc. announced general availability of its Versera Voice Services suite.
BOSTON, MA - SpeechWorks International Inc. announced the availability of SpeechSite 3.0 auto-attendant as a complete, packaged solution powered by LocusDialog.
ORLANDO, FL - Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. announced that the two companies are developing enabling technologies and a reference design for the deployment of speech-enabled Web solutions in the enterprise based on the Speech Applications Language Tags (SALT) specification.
Babel Technologies has named the former manager of ScanSoft Sweden, Lars-Erik Larsson, has joined Babel Technologies as CEO of Babel Infovox.
BOCA RATON, FL - At its annual international user conference, SpeechWorks International Inc. announced Amtrak, National Weather Service (NWS) and Singapore Post (SingPost) as the winners of its annual SpeechWorks Here Best Practices Competition.
BOCA RATON, FL - Guests calling into Amtrak's 1.800.USA.RAIL reservation line are voicing their approval for the passenger rail's customer service agent named "Julie".
SAN JOSE, CA - Aspect Communications Corporation announced that PurolatorCourier Ltd. has implemented Aspect eWorkforce Managementsoftware at three networked contact centers handling 45,000 calls daily.
TROY, MI - Clarity LLC announced that BIA Technology Limited has licensed Clarity's CVC (Clear Voice Capture) software technology for its Bluetooth hands-free kit system for the automobile.
MATAWAN, NJ - iVoice Inc. announced the formation of two subsidiaries, which will be used as vehicles to acquire other operating companies.
MILTON KEYNES, UK - Members of the Friends Reunited website service can now listen to voice profile messages from old school mates thanks to a VoiceXML solution created by NewVoiceMedia (NVM) using technology from Aculab.
LOS ANGELES - HeyAnita Inc. announced the general availability of its FreeSpeech Gateway Server, Version 3.0.
HORSHAM, PA - speechvantage announced the release of its OLIVE Suite of speech-enabled applications.
TOULOUSE, FRANCE - Elan speech opens up a new market opportunity by launching an Arabic version of its high density, small footprint, text-to-speech technology, Elan Tempo.
TROY, MI and WATERLOO, ON - Clarity LLC and Dspfactory Ltd. announced astrategic partnership that will improve the clarity of audio communicationsin a wide range of portable communication devices.
TOULOUSE, FRANCE - Elan Sayso, the new technology developed by TTS supplier Elan Speech, will be showcased in its American English version during SpeechTEK.
Ectaco Language Support is a national language localization system developed for Pocket PC.
PARIS, FRANCE - Elan Speech and Telisma have decided to associate their respective technologies in order to develop deployment of Voice services.
MONTREAL, CANADA - LocusDialog announces thatits LocusDialogSTS system has been formally certified as a NortelNetworks Compatible Solution for the Meridian 1 product environment for the European, Middle-Eastern and Asian (EMEA) markets.
TOULOUSE, FRANCE - Elan Sayso has been chosen by Atos Origin to vocalize the new audio service for Les Echos.
REDMOND, WA - Conversay announced that it is in the last phase of a commercial application of a Distributed Speech Recognition (DSR) pilot with a handset manufacturer and wireless service provider.
DEERFIELD, IL - Vail Systems, a developer of telephony application services and hosting, announced a successful first two quarters for its subsidiary, Versay Solutions.
BOULDER, CO and READING, ENGLAND - Gold Systems Inc. has engaged in a contract to supply voice applications to CIGNA International, the European division of the CIGNA Corporation.
BEDFORD, MA - Kurzweil Educational Systems Inc., developer of reading technology solutions for individuals with learning or visual disabilities, announced Kurzweil 1000 Version 7, the latest version of the reading software for people who are blind or severely visually impaired.
BOCA RATON, FL - IBM WebSphere Voice Server for Windows 2000 and AIX, V3.1 allows companies to leverage their existing Web infrastructures to enable voice access to existing Web applications by wireline and wireless phones.
OTTAWA, CANADA - Pronexus Inc. announced the release of VBVoice 5.0,the telephony development environment to leverage the power ofMicrosoft Visual Studio.Net.
MONTREAL, QUEBEC - iTouch announces that ithas chosen Elix to deploy its interactive voice responseinfrastructure for iTouch's wireless services and applications.
MILTON KEYNES, UK - Aculab will unveil and demonstrate at SpeechTek 2002, the latest version of its much acclaimed host based text to speech (TTS) software.
MARLBOROUGH, MA - HTI Voice Solutions Inc. announced that Bernie Hannon has been selected to head the department of sales and marketing.
BOULDER, CO - SandCherry Inc. announced version 2.3 of its SoftServer platform that allows affordable mass deployment of next-generation services such as voice dialing, voice-enabled customer service applications and multimodality.
NeoSpeech has partnered with Personal Communication Systems
WOODBURY, NY & MADRID, SPAIN - Telefonica Moviles S.A. and Comverse announced that Telefonica Moviles has selected Comverse as a global technological partner for messaging solutions.
AUCKLAND, NZ - WinScribe has tested and "Certified" the Voice Tracker array microphone from Acoustic Magic, the first in a new class of microphones that, together with SW from WinScribe, will extend applications in digital recording and speech recognition, and perhaps create new ones.
SpeechWorks International announced it has deployed a speech-enabled instant loan application for America First Credit Union (AFCU).
CINCINNATI, OH - Convergys Corporation announced an outsourced, automated verification solution for telecommunications providers.
TORONTO, CANADA and JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. and Intelleca Voice & Mobile announced their latest technology implementation: Ster-Kinekor, a South African movie theater chain, has deployed their advanced speech recognition solution as part of their 360° CRM strategy.
FREMONT, CA - NeoSpeech has announced a partnership with Conversay, a provider in enabling mobile speech technologies and pioneer of Distributed Speech Recognition.
SANTA CLARA, CA - Edify's C-Server provides integration of business rules anddata access across all enterprise touchpoints.
WESTFORD, MA and CAMBRIDGE, MA - Voice Automation Inc. and UpSource Inc. announced a strategic partnership agreement offering a reduced-risk, proof-of-concept program for delivering Voice Automation's solutions.
NEW YORK, NY - Audium is supporting "Wishing Stars", one of twenty-three rotating installations in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's "Looking In" storefront exhibition.
NEW YORK, NY - IBM announced developer support for the XHTML + Voice (X+V) specification.
BOULDER, CO and PARIS, FRANCE - SandCherry Inc.is teaming with European speech recognition software developer Telisma to offer speech solutions worldwide.
Babel-Infovox announced the release and availability of its latest Text-to-Speech(TTS) multi-lingual software, Infovox Desktop, a replacement for the Infovox 330.
PORTLAND, OR - SpeechStudio Inc., a provider of desktop speech development solutions, announced SpeechStudio Suite 3.0, the first combination of the power of SpeechStudio's voice-enabling tools suite with telephone devices.
TROY, MI - Clarity LLC announced that it has assembled a team for its new Partner Program. Clarity Partner Program offers customers expertise in design-to-profitability, hardware, software, silicon and operating systems to offer turn-key solutions to its customers.
FREMONT, CA - With four fully developed core technologies and several specialized applications, NeoSpeech Inc. has entered the US market as a new provider of speech-enabled technologies.
TROY, MI - THE NEXT MARKET announced that it will introduce Europe's retailer of aftermarket hands-free systems, THB Bury GmbH & Co. into the U.S. retail market at this year's CTIA show on October 17 and 18 in Las Vegas.
NEW YORK - IBM announced developer support for the XHTML + Voice (X+V) specification as speech industry players, including Motorola and Scansoft, expressed support for multimodal applications using X+V.
TOKYO, JAPAN - InternetSpeech announced the Japanese launch of Voice i-Mode using its netECHO technology.
SANDY, UT - Callware Technologies Inc. announced theinitial release of Callegra .UC ver. 1.0, a new product line bringingUnified Communication and Messaging (UCM) functionality to enterpriseapplications through Microsoft's .NET and XML Web Services.
STRUTTGART, GERMANY - SpeechCo enlarges his product line with the speech-enabled automatic order-line BigShop.
Available through NeoSpeech, XVoice is a flexible, language-independent voice animation technology that changes how voices sound in real time.
LOS ANGELES, CA - Speereo Voice Organizer v. 1.5 introduces new features to help manage your time and contacts easier and more productively:
TROY, MI - Clarity LLC announced that it is supplying technology and hardware to RiverPark Inc., an Indiana-based electronics system integrator, for incorporation into its motor home deliverable for OnStar services.
FINLAND - The Denoiser DSP board, based on TI TMS320C5409 DSP, is a solution for the speech quality improvement in the telecom systems, intercoms and telephony solutions, such as for answering machines.
BRIGHTON, UK - Telephonetics announced theavailability of the latest version of ContactPortal This version has anumber of new features for larger corporations with multiplesites.
CHICAGO, IL - Navigation Technologies announced that voice transcriptions of its United States NAVTECH(R) map database are now available.
HTI Voice Solutions has been selected by CVS to deliver multimedia contact center technology from Avaya .
WIEN, AUSTRIA - Since March 02, AKG has been shipping the array microphone for use in a mass produced automobile to Mercedes-Benz. The system generates optimized voice signals for the car phone and the voice control system.
ANAHEIM, CA - Vialto Corporation announced E2Go 3.0 for Microsoft Exchange, a second-generation voice-driven application optimized for mobile business users.
REDMOND, WA and DALLAS, TX - Microsoft Corp. and Intervoice Inc. announced a strategic alliance that will make open, standards-based speech solutions more accessible to Web developers and enterprise customers.
GALWAY, IRELAND - SyberNet Ltd, the speech applications and services provider, is developing and selling speech recognition applications specifically tailored for the Irish market.
BOCA RATON, FL - NetByTel announced OpenVoice 3.0 that gives enterprise and government clients new ways to reduce operational costs, drive incremental revenue and improve customer satisfaction.