Loquendo unveiled new capabilities in VoxNauta Platform 7.0.
PALO ALTO, Calif. - The Learning Systems Group of Freedom Scientific, Inc. will offer a complimentary subscription to Knowledge Unlimited, Inc.'s NewsCurrents One on One, an online weekly current events curriculum, to both new and existing customers.
Loquendo released Loquendo ASR 7.0.
MITLON KEYNES, U.K. and HARROGATE, U.K. - Aculab and POST CTI have entered a distribution partnership.
From wireless Developer Network - "Adherence Technologies Corporation has selected Envox 6…to power the transformational product, AccuNurse™."
From Israel21c - According to Nicky Blackburn, "Instead of having to report regularly to the offices of the Department of Homeland Security, where they face long waits and a great deal of inconvenience, thanks to an Israeli innovation, they now check in remotely once a month through their telephone with a new voice verification system."
SAN FRANCISCO - Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. released a new reseller, developer and systems integration certification program for customers when they use the Genesys suite of contact center software.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - In 2005, companies such as Radica Games, Hasbro, Inc.'s Tiger Electronics and Innotech Systems selected Sensory's speech-enabled solutions.
MONS, Belgium and TOULOUSE, France - Violet chose Acapela Group to voice-enable Nabaztag, the first of a series of communicating objects.
MAAF, eight Norwegian daily newspapers (VG-Nett, Adresseavisa, Aftenbladet, Nordlys, Fedrelandsvennen, Aftenposten, and Aften och Bergens Tidende), Crick Software and Trafiken.nu selected Acapela's text-to-speech solutions.
Nuance Communications has received the Competitive Strategy Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan following an analysis of the European health care voice recognition systems market.
ZURICH - Berlin-based personal information retrieval company, adnota, launched its ADnota speaker. ADnota is a cell phone software designed for blind and visually impaired people.
PARIS - Diebold has supplied BNP Paribas Group, a French financial institution, with 265 Opteva automated teller machines (ATMs) that are accessible to all of its customers, including those who are visually impaired.
SALEM, N.H. - MacSpeech released a new ScriptPak for iMovie HD.
FREIBURG - Jedox GmbH released another enterprise solution for Microsoft Excel making it easier for users to create Web services without having it coded by a programming specialist.
SALEM, N.H. - MacSpeech released a new ScriptPak for iDVD.
NEW YORK, N.Y. - ECTACO, Inc. released a new set of its SpeechGuard® TL-2 series translators in 15 languages.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced new work on extensions to components of the Speech Interface Framework which will both extend Speech Synthesis Markup Language functionality to Asian and other languages, and include speaker verification features into the next version of VoiceXML, version 3.0.
RA'ANANA, Israel - De Beers Group, a supplier of rough diamonds, has selected NICE as the preferred supplier.
PTS Floors selected SpeechSwitch to install a Speech Enabled Auto Attendant.
DENVER - Charles T. Fote, chairman and chief executive officer of First Data Corp., has advised the board that he is retiring from the company for personal reasons.
SALEM, N.H. - MacSpeech released a new ScriptPak for iPhoto version 5.
Royal Philips Electronics' voice recognition technology SpeechMagic received the "European Technology Leadership Award" from Frost & Sullivan, following an analysis of the European health care speech recognition market.
RA'ANANA, Israel - NICE Systems entered a strategic supply relationship with Honeywell that is designed to capitalize on the growth opportunities NICE expects to result from its recent decision to acquire FAST Video Security AG.
Metaphor Solutions and XO Interactive (XOI) signed a reseller agreement for XOI to deploy Metaphor's speech IVR applications on XOI's hosting infrastructure.
NEWARK, N.J. - Great American Technologies added a new voice to e-mail with the launch of Mailcall.
TURIN, Italy, and LISBON, Portugal - Proside incorporated Loquendo's speech technologies into its flagship solutions.
BURLINGTON, Mass. and GHENT, Belgium - Nuance Communications, Inc. released the Nuance Accessibility Suite, a mobile accessibility solution designed to help handset users take full advantage of mobile data with direct access to on-screen content and device functionality.
MUNICH, Germany and BURLINGTON, Mass. - The Hesse Justice Ministry will deploy Nuance Communications' Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Legal to more than 1,300 legal workstations.
Frost & Sullivan named Convergys the recipient of its 2005 Award for Competitive Strategy Leadership in CRM and Billing for Communications.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The VoiceXML Forum supported the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) decision to include speaker identification and verification (SIV) in the next version of the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML).
VoxGen launched a five-point plan (C.A.L.L.S.) to help businesses reliant on calls, maximize the impact of their brand through the use of the voice.
MCLEAN, Va. - Angel.com will launch IVR University, an online training and development resource focused on teaching best practices in IVR design and implementation to business and technical users.
BURLINGTON, Mass. - Nuance Communications, Inc. has named Craig Peddie as vice president and general manager of the embedded speech solutions business for the company's Speech Division.
MATAWAN, N.J. - iVoice, Inc signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire Thomas Pharmaceuticals Ltd.