MUNICH, Germany - Knowles Acoustics has announced its new "Mini" series of SiSonic™ silicon microphones.
OTTAWA, Canada - Pronexus Inc. announced the availability of ReadiVoIP, the 'Rapid Enterprise Application Development in VoIP' starter kit.
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.
ATLANTA, Ga. - Vocalocity announced that Tom Ray, has joined the company as senior vice president of sales and business development and Luis Gutierrez-Rocca has joined Vocalocity as vice president of finance and operations.
Metaphor Solutions and Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories have formed a strategic relationship.
Sulake Canada Inc., creator of Habbo Hotel, the online community for teenagers has selected HTK for the launch of its operations in North America.
Loquendo and Eicon Networks Corporation announced that they have signed a partnership agreement.
telisma can now offer a new GSM speech database for South America that recognizes Portuguese and Spanish dialectal variants.
Spreadtrum Communications selected the smARTspeak XG embedded speech interface from ART for its SC6600 family of GSM/GPRS baseband chipsets.
PEABODY, Mass., and REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft selects ScanSoft text-to-speech technology for Microsoft server family of products and deepens collaboration.
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Frost & Sullivan has awarded Comverse Technology, Inc. with the 2004 Market Leadership Award.
SALEM, N.H. - MacSpeech announces the release of its iListen ScriptPak for MYOB AccountEdge.
Wizzard Software announced the signing of a licensing agreement with the U.S. Coast Guard.
Teledata Technology has partnered with NSC to develop a range of messaging solutions based on automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Sensory, Inc. announced that it is a new member in the ARM® Connected Community.
From HAARETZ International - ScanSoft will buy Phonetic, which employs 65 people, based on a market value of $80 million. Its investors have sunk in $50 million so far.
MCLEAN, Va. - KB Toys selected Angel.com to develop and manage its toll-free phone number and application that provides consumers with store location information based on their zip code.
PEABODY, Mass. - ScanSoft, Inc. announced a series of acquisitions that expand the company's speech capabilities and resources.
NEEDHAM, Mass. - Brooktrout Technology, Inc. announced a partnership with Comunycarse as a Brooktrout Value Added Distributor (VAD) for Spain and Portugal.
TORONTO - MERA releases new version of Session Controller based on carrier requests.
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Vocomo® Corporation announced the availability of VocomoVoice Studio: a desktop tool for development, testing, and debugging VoiceXML IVR applications.
TORONTO and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. and Vocent Solutions Inc. announced the integration of Vocent Password Reset with VoiceGenie's latest VoiceXML platform, NeXusPoint 6.4.
Analysts from Gartner and OPUS speak out about ScanSoft's announcement of separate agreements to acquire Phonetic Systems, Advanced Recognition Technologies (ART) and Rhetorical Systems for a total of $63.2 million.
telisma is offering its support for an initiative that represents an important step towards bringing speech technologies to mainstream developers.
PARIS and HEIDELBERG - voice robots and telisma announce a worldwide retailer agreement.
Teleperformance Interactive announced the selection of VoiceGenie's VoiceXML 2.0 certified platform, NeXusPoint, for a speech-driven customer automation program.
IDX Systems and ScanSoft announced that IDX has selected the ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK (software developers toolkit) to directly integrate speech recognition capabilities into the IDX Imagecast product line.
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. - J.D. Power and Associates and SIVOX Technologies, Inc., announce the formation of a marketing alliance to provide simulation training, learning solutions and performance monitoring tools to the call center industry.
LONDON - SRC has appointed James Araali-Kabyanga as head of technical operations.
SALEM, N.H. - MacSpeech has announced that it has appointed Application Systems Heidelberg as its distributor for Germany.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Edify Corporation announced the appointment of Jim Wambach as vice president of worldwide sales operations.
Loquendo releases Loquendo Studio 6.0, the latest version of Service Development and Testing Environment for deploying VoiceXML.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Clarity Technologies acquires rights to develop and commercialize the next generation of ISP Technologies' Intelligent Surround™ technology.
Convergys acquires Finali , a contact center analytics firm.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. - Envox Worldwide announced that Nick Applegarth, the former managing director of Nuance EMEA, has joined the company as vice president of marketing and sales for Envox EMEA.
CINCINNATI - Cintech LLC announced that it has completed an agreement to purchase the assets of Skyflow Inc.
AVST released CallXpress 7.5, the latest version of its unified communications solution.
Pronexus introduced VBSALT 1.1, the latest generation of its application development tool for Microsoft Speech Server (MSS 2004).
According to a story published by Globes [online], Tel Aviv-based ART - Advanced Recognition Technologies is in advanced acquisition negotiations with US company ScanSoft.
ATLANTA - Continental Airlines announced that it is deploying Witness Systems' speech analytics solution in Continental's Tampa, Florida-based reservation center.
MCLEAN, Va. - MoveOn PAC implemented a hosted call center management solution from Angel.com.
Toronto, ON, Canada - Uzbektelecom, a provider of telecommunications services in Uzbekistan, announced that it has deployed MERA's MVTS Session Controller in its nationwide VoIP network.
SALEM, N.H. - MacSpeech, Inc. released an update to the UK English version of its iListen speech recognition program.
The W3C Voice Browser Working Group announces a revised Pronunciation Lexicon Requirements document.
PLANO, Texas - Alliance Systems has promoted David Moore to vice president and corporate controller and has appointed Todd Kehoe to vice president and treasurer.
PEABODY, Mass. - ScanSoft announced the availability of Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Medical 8, a new release of the speech recognition solution designed for healthcare organizations.
First Data announces Fast REACT , a new end-to-end processing solution, which allows customers to leverage the power of Experian's Notification Services.
TORONTO - MERA Systems, Inc. announced MERA SIPrise, its new VoIP-based service creation platform.
HeyAnita unveiled its Content Delivery Service (CDSTM) software, which enables mobile phone users to receive audio content regardless of handset technology.
Fifty thousand UK taxpayers have this year been given the opportunity to file the new self-assessment short tax return over the telephone, following last year's successful pilot of the Inland Revenue's advanced speech recognition service.
PEABODY, Mass. and KEW GARDENS, N.Y. - SynaMed announced that it will integrate ScanSoft® Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Medical to enable speech recognition within its suite of EMR software.
PEABODY, Mass. - ScanSoft, Inc. launched an industry-backed initiative to enable interoperability among speech applications and tools.
BERLIN, Germany, and EDISON, N.J. - 8hertz and Kirusa announced the availability of multimodal applications for the automobile industry.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - In the most recent Vocal Laboratories SectorPulse Airlines report, issued October 15, 2004, Southwest Airlines leaped to the top of the customer service standings among the eight airlines evaluated.
Ectaco announces customization of the SpeechGuard PD-4.
Speech Recognition Ware announced the launch of Transcription Aid for Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
From CBS MarketWatch: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Intel's board of directors announced Paul Otellini will replace chief executive Craig Barrett when he steps down to become chairman in May.