BURLINGTON, Mass. & NEW DEHLI, India - Nuance Communications, Inc. deployed speech solutions for India's telecom service providers, including Airtel, BSNL, Hutch, MTNL, Spice, Reliance and Tata Indicom.
NICE Systems signed a definitive agreement to acquire IEX and a second definitive agreement to acquire Performix.
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. Celtel, a multi-national mobile operator in Africa, is broadening the use of NMS' AccessGate backhaul optimization solution for its subscriber base.
LONDON - First Choice, an international leisure travel company, deployed Fluency Voice Technology's speech recognition technology to enhance customer service.
RSA Security is acquiring PassMark's voice-based biometric authentication system - that identifies wired and wireless phones in combination with biometric voiceprints - to authenticate remote users over the phone.
Botanic chose Acapela's speech synthesis to provide voice-overs for its e-learning programs and Waag Society selected Acapela multilingual tones to voice enable BoardMessenger.>
- Travelodge, a UK budget hotel brand is offering 24/7 phone bookings with Fluency Voice Technology's speech self-service solution. >
Telstra appointed Vincent Morreale as its new senior vice president of sales and marketing.
Loquendo's new version of the Loquendo VoiceXML platform allows the integration of any third party IVR.
OTTAWA - Pronexus Inc. released VBVoice 5.4, a Rapid Application Development tool for telephony and speech solutions.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. - Envox Worldwide released Envox 6.2 VoiceXML Studio.
Acapela Group released its Virtual Speaker, the virtual desktop recording solution, allowing multiple users on multiple sites.
CAMBRIDGE - Cambridge voice technology company, NCT, released its ClearSpeech Module, a solution for integrating NCT's noise reduction and echo cancellation technology into embedded applications.
OTTAWA - Pronexus Inc. was awarded Certified Partner, ISV competency status from Microsoft Corporation.
Angel.com entered a new strategic alliance with Skype.>
SAIL LABS Technology entered into an agreement with MCP, a media content processing company in Norway, to jointly market speech technology solutions in the Nordic region.