NEW YORK - Aumtech Inc. and Kirusa, Inc. announced a partnership to introduce a joint multimodal solution offering wireless end users voice and data access to mobile applications and services.
Kurzweil Educational Systems introduced Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh Version 3, reading, writing and learning software for struggling students, at the 22nd annual Closing the Gap conference.
BOCA RATON, Fla. - Apptera™ and ScanSoft, Inc. have signed an agreement whereby ScanSoft will resell Apptera's packaged speech applications.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Nestle Waters North America announced receipt of Cisco Systems' 2000th Cisco IP Contact Center (IPCC) installation.
HTK announces two key appointments for newly created roles.
PITTSBURGH - DynaVox Technologies announced the availability of MightyMo and MiniMo.
DENVER - Qwest Communications International Inc. announced a new network-hosted call center solution that reduces large capital, networking, and specialized IT staffing and equipment maintenance costs by 30 to 50 percent.
VeCommerce Limited announced that Brett Feldon has been promoted to the newly created position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
SAN ANTONIO - SBC Communications Inc. announced SBC Unified Communications(SM), a new service that uses IP (Internet Protocol) to enable customers to gather all of their message services into one system.
From CommWeb - Artisoft has closed its acquisition of privately held Vertical Networks. Artisoft paid approximately $19 million in cash. Artisoft Chairman William Tauscher will serve as chairman and CEO, and Vertical Networks founder Scott Pickett will serve as chief technology officer, of the combined company.
AutoZone has selected the VoiceLogistics solution by Voxware, for implementation.
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. - APEX Voice Communications announced the general availability of OmniVox version 5.0.
TORONTO - MERA works in close contact with telcos to deliver Session Controller for carriers & service providers.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Clarity Technologies Inc announced that its CVC (Clear Voice Capture) noise suppression technology for automatic speech recognition software can now interoperate, and can be sold with, IBM(R) Embedded ViaVoice(R).
DUBLIN - PostFinance chooses Swisscom Systems for telephone self-service banking solution on Voxpilot VoiceXML platform.
LONDON - ContactCapture, available from Fluency, has been used to handle over two million calls for the Freeview digital terrestrial television (DTT) service that brings viewers up to 30 television channels and interactive services, through their rooftop aerial.
Vocomo announced its new open standards Voice-over-IP (VoIP) IVR platform: VocomoVoice Response for VoIP.
Loquendo announced that a new European country has been added in its portfolio: Holland.
MacSpeech released MouseAnywhere, which allows the user to position the mouse using commands like "Go," "Nudge," and "Move Mouse."
Yelling at a videogame used to be considered a sign of overexcitement, or perhaps mild insanity. But today, when players holler at their video screens, chances are, it's helping them win.
GTECH Holdings selected Intervoice to deliver several speech-enabled applications within its customer service offering.
SAN BRUNO, Calif. - Convergys has signed an agreement under which Convergys will provide Apptera's suite of packaged speech applications as part of its speech platform.
Strategic Connections Inc. and VoiceGate Corporation have joined forces to deliver a suite of productivity and call management tools designed to assist automotive dealers to sell more vehicles and increase customer retention.
Embarrassing blunders over names and places in unfamiliar languages should be a thing of the past for BBC broadcasters thanks to a solution developed by HTK.
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Frost & Sullivan's recent study, North American Enterprise Messaging Markets, acknowledged Interactive Intelligence Inc.'s product innovation abilities in developing Communite(TM) for the enterprise unified messaging (UM) market.
PARIS and TORONTO - Telisma's new speech recognition technology integrates VoiceGenie's NexusPoint VoiceXML platform.
From CommWeb - The EsnaTech Telephony Office-LinX enterprise edition is more than just an auto attendant. It supports many features including unified messaging and instant messaging, but this test focused on the automated speech recognition auto-attendant capabilities. This component of the product comes with many features including support for eight different languages.
One of the Neologos objectives is to overcome this shortage of dedicated data for French children.
BOSTON - Eicon Networks announced the introduction of the Shiva VPN Gateways range with new security features and software.
Toshiba announces the Strata CIX upgrade to the Strata CTX.
At SYSTEMS 2004, which will take place in Munich, Germany from October 18-22, Loquendo will be unveiling Loquendo TTS Expressive Voices.
BOSTON - Eicon announced the launch of Diva Server SoftIP version 1.0, a new software product that extends Diva Server call control and media streaming capabilities towards IP Telephony, using Voice over IP (VoIP)and Fax over IP (FoIP) signaling protocols.
Enventis Telecom has selected TeleGea's VoIP Delivery Management Solution to help manage delivery of services.
PARIS and TORONTO - Telisma and VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. announced the testing and integration of Telisma's teliSpeech technology with VoiceGenie's latest VoiceXML platform release, NeXusPoint 6.4.
PARIS and MUNICH - varetis and Telisma announce the availability of Telisma's technology - teliSpeech.
PRINCETON, N.J. - Voxware, Inc. announced that Voxware's VoiceLogistics applications are available on LXE's handheld wireless computer, the MX3X.
PARIS - France Telecom launches "Mes Contacts" ("My Contacts") - a new personal directory featuring Telisma's speech recognition technology.
At the Gitex trade show in Dubai, Acapela is speaking out at its stand, but also at those of Speakatel and Etisalat with Salma, its Arabic speech synthesis.
LOS ANGELES - Empirix Inc. and Siebel Systems, Inc. announced that Empirix has elevated its partnership status to the Siebel Strategic Software Partner level by entering into a development agreement.
CINCINNATI - Wachovia selected Convergys to provide speech solutions utilizing its patented open hosting environment to support self-service customer care.
IntegraMed America has created a new version of its ARTWorks software.
PEABODY, Mass. - ScanSoft, Inc. announced that it has named James ("Jamie") R. Arnold, Jr. to the position of senior vice president and chief financial officer.
TORONTO - MERA Systems announced that it has enhanced its VoIPal Session Border Controller with SIP features and routing mechanisms.
WOODSTOCK, Ga. - VAS International awarded US Patent number 6,799,163.
PEABODY, Mass. and GHENT, Belgium - Belgacom has worked with ScanSoft to develop 1234, an automated multi-lingual national directory assistance (DA) service in Belgium.
PITTSBURGH - MedivoxRx Technologies Inc. announced that it has received the first order for its Talking Pill Bottle from the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.
The 1.0 beta release of Sphinx-4, a speaker-independent speech recognition system written in the Java programming language has been released.
LONDON - SRC has launched SRC Direct, an e-commerce Web site offering professionals digital dictation and speech recognition products.
MAP Telecom announced the launch of VoiceXML Business Exchange or VBX.
LOS ANGELES - Circles announced that it has selected Empirix e-TEST™ suite to test the performance of its Siebel 7.5 customer relationship management (CRM) application prior to deployment.
ATLANTA - AGL Resources, Inc. announced that it has extended the deployment of Witness Systems' eQuality® performance optimization software by adding Witness Systems' e-learning and compliance recording solutions.
London - Barclays selects voice recognition solution from Fluency and Energis.