HEMEL HEMPSTEAD - Telephonetics has been honored with the coveted title of "Business Innovation of the Year" (South East Region) for the second year in succession at the National Business Awards.
PALO ALTO, Calif. - When Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) decided to implement speech technology, Voice Partners was asked to assist in defining and designing a voice-enabled, over-the-phone service.
XoVox and LegalDocs have teamed to offer a system that connects the spoken word with a final formatted document. XoVox also released its latest version of XCommunicator, version 4 and XoVox Mobile.
Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc. has appointed Ed Smith to regional manager for New York.
WOBURN, Mass. - VoiceSignal released a download of its one-step voice command speech solution.
MADRID, Spain and EDISON, N.J. - Bankinter, an Internet bank and brokerage firm in Spain, has signed a strategic agreement to develop a multimodal interface for their applications using Kirusa's multimodal technology.
NEW YORK - VoiceObjects released the latest version of VoiceObjects X5.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. will open a product research and development center in China, and has hired computer scientist and industry pioneer, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, to lead the operation and serve as president of the company's growing Chinese operations.
BOSTON - MacSpeech released iListen MX, a new version of iListen.
MANASSAS, Va. - EMS will be participating at this year's SpeechTEK conference in New York City August 1 - August 4.
PITTSBURGH - Wizzard Software released AT&T Natural Voices for Apple Mac OS v.10.3 Panther and v.10.4 Tiger in English, French, German and Spanish.
PITTSBURGH - Jane Phillips Medical Center (JPMC) has licensed AT&T Natural Voices from Wizzard for an internal alert system.
SAN DIEGO - LumenVox will be announcing the availability of their Speech Tuner with support for ScanSoft's OSR 2.0 at the upcoming SpeechTEK show.
VIENNA, Austria - Royal Philips Electronics has announced the winners of the SpeechMagic Awards 2005.
Corporate Strategies has installed the iVoice Speech Enabled Auto Attendant.
TEL AVIV, Israel - Persay Ltd. released a platform for biometric speaker verification.
COLOGNE, Germany; BOSTON; and MELBOURE, Australia - VoiceObjects and Inference Communications partnered to integrate the Inference Grammar Trainer technology into VoiceObjects X5.
Gold Systems released Gold Systems' Password Reset.
NEW YORK - bridgeSpeak leveraged Empirix's Hammer automated testing system to test drive its new Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solution for auto dealerships.
TURIN, Italy - The new version of Loquendo's automatic speech recognition gives customers the tools to adapt their own acoustic models without the need for specific technical know-how. The Linux version of Loquendo's VoxNauta platform is based on Linux Red Hat 7.3.
Message Technologies added Microsoft Speech Server (MSS) and a Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) specification. Message Technologies has also reached a reseller and hosting agreement with Pronexus.
A Harvard Business Review study reveals that phone-based satisfaction surveys can increase customer profitability.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Datria released its 3.0 series of applications, including Ticket Management™, Scouting & Inspection™, and Storm Recovery™.
Edify was named in the Leader Quadrant in the Gartner Enterprise Voice Portal and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Magic Quadrant 2005.
PhoneAnything has received the "Accessibility Award" in this year's New Statesman New Media Awards.
MacSpeech has certified the Plantronics .Audio 85 multipurpose stereo headset for use with its product, iListen.
MONACO - MAP Telecom has a new management team.
MILTON KEYNES, U.K. - Many of Aculab's evaluation trial partners, of its telephony interface manager (TIM) for the Microsoft Speech Server 2004 R2, are now moving into the final test and production phase of their solutions, following the integration and testing of Aculab's TIM.
Wizzard Software to sell and support IBM ViaVoice speech recognition and text-to-speech toolkits and IBM ViaVoice runtime distribution licenses.
Sepura has licensed Cambridge technology company, NCT's ClearSpeech noise reduction technology for integration into their TETRA hand-held radios.
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Voice Partners plans to give an open source analog prompt generator (APG) to leaders in the speech industry in attendance at the upcoming SpeechTEK 2005 conference in New York City on August 1, 2005.
MENLO PARK, Calif. - The Fordham University Enrollment Group selected Nuance and its partner Speech Technology Associates, Inc. (STA) to develop the speech recognition and CTI-enabled auto-attendant solution, Automated Operator™.
NEW YORK - KeyBank has deployed Apptera's voice-automated ATM Locator to help customers pinpoint the nearest location for its ATMs and service centers.
NEW YORK - Tell-Eureka named Roberto Pieraccini to its executive management team as chief technology officer.
BEDFORD, Mass. and SAN FRANCISCO - Empirix Inc. and Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., jointly released integrated testing and monitoring solutions for Genesys Voice Platform (GVP) environments.
NEW YORK - Voxeo Corporation released the sixth generation of its VoiceCenter IVR platform.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Sensory, Inc. released the VR Stamp™ module, providing integration of voice recognition (VR) into consumer, industrial, automotive and medical electronics.
ATLANTA - Kable Fulfillment Services has extended deployment of Witness Systems' workforce optimization software.
IRVING, Texas - Fraser Health, a British Columbia health authority, has selected NEC Unified Solutions, Inc. to provide unified messaging and voice recognition technologies to enhance its converged voice and data network.
SAN FRANCISCO - Avery Glasser has joined Opus Research.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - In Vocal Laboratories' seventh quarterly report comparing the service levels of five cellular telephone providers, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile continue to lead, but Cingular is showing considerable improvement and is closing the gap.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. and COLOGNE, Germany - Datria and VoiceObjects signed a partnership agreement that will serve as a flexible foundation for the companies' relationship.
CUPERTINO, Calif. - AvMed Health Plans, a Florida not-for-profit health plan, has deployed speech applications from TuVox and ScanSoft to enhance its customers' service offerings with voice-enabled self-service.
Electronics 2000 and Natural Speech Communication partner to deliver speech recognition solutions in the U.K. and Ireland.
NEW YORK - CyberExtruder has selected Acapela's text-to-speech engine to voice enable its new technology whereby an image of a person's face is turned into a rendered 3D-model. This service will be demonstrated during SpeechTEK show in NYC, from August 1-3.
MUNICH, Germany & GHENT, Belgium - Germany's voice-automated white and yellow pages directory service, 11810, launched a new and improved customized voice by varetis AG and ScanSoft, Inc.
Concerto Software Inc. and Aspect Communications Corporation have entered a definitive agreement to combine the companies.
BURLINGTON, Mass. & LISBON, Portugal - Vodafone Portugal has implemented ScanSoft's voice-driven suite of information services that subscribers can access through their mobile devices.
In cooperation with Monaco Telecom, VoiceDriven Communications distributes its packaged and customized solutions to carriers and enterprises Europe-wide.
Dickinson Financial, the holding company for Bank Midwest and its affiliated banks, has invested in Witness Systems' workforce optimization solution.
EMDAT, a provider of integrated dictation and transcription software solutions, has selected Envox Worldwide's Envox CT ADE to power its InTouch phone-based dictation service.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. - Envox Worldwide released Envox CT ADE™ version 8.4, the company's first formal CT ADE product release since it acquired the product line from Intel in March, 2005.
NEW YORK - Apptec Voice Solutions has selected Brooktrout Technology's speech platform for its next generation of digital dictation and transcription services.
Spoken Translation has named Robert Aiudi to the position of vice president of sales and business development.
DALLAS and ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Intervoice will offer the Datria Ticket Management™ 2.0 application as part of its Omvia® Voice Express Packaged Applications suite.
NEW YORK - Empirix® Inc. and Audium have partnered to help enterprises develop and deploy VoiceXML IVR applications.
Voice2Form and NetByTel have signed a multi-year patent license agreement to use Voice2Form's voice and speech recognition technology process for completing paper and electronic forms.
HALIFAX, Canada - The International Bank of Miami, N.A. (TIBOM) has selected Diaphonics' Spike Server for voice verification.
FORT MYERS, Fla. - CallMiner Inc. released CallMiner Reportal, a Web-based reporting and analysis tool enabling the creation of ad-hoc and automated reports from within TrendMiner™ ™ and Tireless Supervisor™.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. - Envox 6, Envox Worldwide's open, standards-based communications development platform, has achieved VoiceXML 2.0 Certification through the VoiceXML Forum's Platform Certification Program.
TORONTO, Canada - HiTech Telecom, an Australian VoIP wholesaler, has deployed MERA VoIP Transit Softswitch (MVTS) for transit switching of VoIP calls going though its international VoIP network.
SAN FRANCISCO - Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. released an IP-enabled version of the Genesys Voice Platform (GVP) to serve enterprise customers of all sizes.
NEW YORK - Avaya has selected IBM WebSphere Voice Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server as the initial speech and middleware platforms for Avaya Voice Portal. Also, three IBM partners, Audium, Fluency, and Openstream have donated RDCs to the Apache Software Foundation.
TURIN, Italy and DORDRECHT, The Netherlands - Loquendo has entered into a partnership with New Bridges, Voice Processing Engineers.