BOULDER, Colo. - The San Diego Land Use & Environmental Group (LUEG) has deployed a series of self-service speech automation applications from Gold Systems®.
MILTON KEYNES, U.K. - Michael Donoghue has joined Aculab as VP of Sales
MONTREAL - Interstar Technologies and Nexus IS have teamed up to provide a unified messaging solution that combines email, voice and fax messaging for VoIP networks.
SALEM, N.H. - MacSpeech released a new ScriptPak for Microsoft Excel 2004.
ATLANTA - InService America, a relationship management provider, has extended deployment of Witness Systems' software.
OTTAWA, Canada - PIKA Technologies released a program that will make available versions of their SDK (API and drivers) that run on an expanded number of Linux distributions/kernels (distros).
TURIN, Italy - Loquendo opened a new office in Munich to meet increasing demand in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).
RISHON LEZION - Natural Speech Communication Ltd. (NSC) has opened new offices in Germany and the company's products now support the German language.
Empirix's integrations between its Hammer Service Assurance for Siebel and e-Load products and Siebel business applications version 7.7 have been validated.
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD - Kingston Communications has implemented Telephonetics' ContactPortal® to assist staff with internal and external telephone communications.
WOKINGHAM - Telewest Communications has won the Contact Center Association Excellence Award for best contact center in the United Kingdom for the telecoms, technology and utilities sectors.
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) introduced CallXpress Speech Server based on a new version of its speech module, SenecaR 4.5.
SALT LAKE CITY - Knowledge Adventure® will integrate Fonix VoiceIn for the PC into upcoming products aimed at providing innovative and entertaining learning opportunities for children.
LOS ALTOS, Calif. - TuVox named Jeff Langston to the position of vice president of engineering.
Sensory has joined the MontaVista Partner Program.
RISHON LEZION, Israel - Natural Speech Communication Ltd. (NSC) released version 3.8 of its hardware-based speech recognition engine.
From The Examiner - NASA used Nuance Communications Inc.'s (NUAN) voice recognition software to create "Clarissa," a computer assistant designed to guide the astronauts step-by-step through any number of tasks, including those related to life support systems and medical exams.
MATAWAN, N.J. - Simon & Schuster installed an iVoice Speech Enabled Auto Attendant at their United Kingdom location.
ATLANTA - Witness Systems unveiled an end-to-end solution for optimizing workforce performance.
BOSTON, NARCA - Predict Ability Plus now supports Brooktrout's TR1000™ speech boards on its Performer TrueCTI Predictive Dialing System.
CAIRO, Egypt and RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - SpeechWorkers S.A.E will release Arabic/English Speech enabled call center value-added speech solution using speech recognition on a VoiceXML platform and text-to-speech (TTS) during Gitex Saudi Arabia 2005, April 24 -28 in Riyadh.
DEERFIELD, Ill. and ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Vail Systems and Datria announced a partnership in which Vail will host Datria's field service applications.
PITTSBURGH - Wizzard Software has hired William F. McLay as chief financial officer for the company.
FORT MYERS, Fla. - CallMiner Inc. released TrendMiner 5.0, a speech analytics tool.
SAN ANTONIO - Ordinate Corp., a subsidiary of test publisher Harcourt Assessment, Inc., now offers technology-enabled spoken-language proficiency tests to customers in the education, government and corporate sectors.
SALEM, N.H. - MacSpeech released an update to the Italian version of their iListen program.
VoxGen has developed a demonstration of a tele-voting system to display the potential of the voting phone line.
BEDFORD, Mass. - Empirix® Inc. released a new telephony monitors for its OneSight® for contact centers, an application management solution.
BALTIMORE and NATICK, Mass. - Cambium Learning™, Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Kurzweil Educational Systems®, Inc.
LONDON - Aspect Communications Corporation has won the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Product Development Leadership Award for its contribution to the contact center market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
PEABODY, Mass. & GHENT, Belgium - VoiceObjects will integrate ScanSoft's OpenSpeech® DialogModules (OSDMs) into the latest release of VoiceObjects X5. The companies also agreed to expand joint sales and marketing activities.
HOUSTON, Texas and SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Co-nexus, Inc., who develops CXM, integrated LumenVox's Speech Recognition Engine (SRE) into their production line.
CHATILLION, France, and MONS, Belgium - Voxpilot and UbiCall have joined forces to offer a solution to automate companies or government agencies' office-receptions and call centers.
SEATTLE - Voice Web Studio has been downloaded over 30,000 times.
MENLO PARK, Calif. - Australia's AUSTAR selected Nuance along with Australian voice services partner, VerifyMe, who have teamed to voice-enable the satellite TV service provider's customer service center and enhance the experience of customers calling the company's Box Office near-video-on-demand service.
OTTAWA, Canada - Empirix Inc. has chosen PIKA Technologies' media processing building blocks to enable voice services in its Hammer FX-TDM test systems.
Datria released Datria Scouting & Inspection, a packaged voice self-service application for mobile field employees, and Datria Storm Recovery, a voice self-service application for mobile field employees.
Prairie Systems released the 2005 upgrade of its Critical Communications product.
MATAWAN, N.J. - iVoice, Inc. has received notice of allowance for its fourth speech-recognition patent, "TAPI Interface Based, Speech Enabled Automatic Telephone Dialer Using Names."
MCLEAN, Va. - Angel.com updated Site Builder 2005, the company's Web-based toolkit that allows users to create speech-enabled phone applications.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. - Envox Worldwide released Envox 6.1, the latest version of its communications development platform.
SEATTLE - VoiceXMLSALTGrammars.com is a speech search engine about VoiceXML, SALT and Grammar related technologies.
PITTSBURGH - Cyberitas Enterprises, LLC selected AT&T Natural Voices Server Edition to add text-to-speech capabilities to their client's consumer Web site, a national real estate company.
SOMERS, N.Y. - IBM and Cisco jointly plan to deliver speech-enabled self-service solutions that combine IBM's WebSphere Voice Server product and Cisco's Customer Voice Portal to contact centers.
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - Sierra View District Hospital of Porterville, Calif., Children's Hospital of Central California, and Condell Medical Center of Libertyville, Ill. are three hospitals using Avaya enterprise mobility solutions.
OMAHA, Neb. - Prairie Systems, Inc. unveiled the 2005 release of their Interactive Collections solution.
MacSpeech released an update to the German version of their iListen program
CAIRO, Egypt and RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - SpeechWorkers will release new value-added speech technologies services for Saudi Internet service providers during Gitex 2005 Saudi Arabia, April 24-28 in Riyadh.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - In Vocal Laboratories' most recent quarterly SectorPulse report which measures the quality of customer care, Verizon Wireless received top scores in Caller Satisfaction.
ORLANDO, Florida - Voxeo Corporation's VoiceCenter v6.0 IVR platform has been awarded VoiceXML Forum Platform Certification.
Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories and Viecore have broadened their existing partnership.
MENLO PARK, Calif. - Yell Group PLC, an online and offline directory operator, has chosen the Nuance Voice Platform™ as the basis for its voice-enabled customer service systems.
The current licensing/distribution relationship between Wizzard and AT&T, allowing Wizzard worldwide distribution of AT&T's Natural Voices text-to-speech engine, has been extended for an additional five-years.
MacSpeech, Inc. has certified the Voice Tracker& array microphone from Acoustic Magic for use with its product, iListen.
PIKA Technologies will release an integrated SIP stack for VoIP signaling to developers this June. The company also unveiled its host media processing (HMP) technology, which is slated for initial release later this year.
SWK Technologies has installed the iVoice Speech Enabled Auto Attendant.
Pronexus VeoDesign has been certified for use on Speech Server.