June 20, 2006
Industry News
CCPS conducted surveys over the phone via Angel.com's IVR technology.
VIENNA, Austria - The Danish parliament chose Royal Philips Electronics' speech recognition technology SpeechMagic in an EU tender and will integrate it into the parliament's Official Report publishing system.
The Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) deployed Cantata Technology's Brooktrout TR1000 for Microsoft Speech Server to automate its call-in patient transportation system.
Nuance® Mobile speech solutions power the new T-Com voice application, a speech-enabled information and entertainment service which is accessible via call completion by Germany's digital directory assistance 11864 for 79 Euro cent from T-Com's fixed network.
OMAHA, Neb. - West Corporation's West at Home solution received the 2006 Product Differentiation Innovation Award from Frost & Sullivan.
>ZURICH - SVOX AG appointed Eric Lehmann as chief sales officer (CSO).>
Telephonetics launched a Telephony Business Continuity Solution.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. & CHICAGO - Digium® Inc. released an upgrade of its Asterisk Business EditionTM.
TURIN, Italy and MEXICO CITY, Mexico- Loquendo and Nekotec Telecom integrated Loquendo's multilingual solutions within Nekotec's NK90 service delivery platform.
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies launched a new version of its unified communications (UC) solution, CallXpress.
Envox Worldwide's Envox CT ADE, an interactive voice response (IVR) development tool, was selected by VoIP to power its VoiceOne Enhanced 911 Verification Service.
MAVC Health and Wellness will distribute Rex-The Talking Prescription Bottle in Canada
Signate integrated Cepstral's Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine and voices into its SigProvider and SigCarrier solutions for telephone service providers.
SALT LAKE CITY - Fonix Speech Inc. signed a collaboration agreement with MediaZen Inc.
Loquendo released Florence, the new French voice.
SALEM, N.H. - MacSpeech released the latest version of its iListen.>
News Feature
Information Today, Inc. (ITI) has acquired SpeechTEK Conferences and Expositions and Speech Technology Magazine of Lexington from AmComm Holdings.>
Q & A
Speech Technology Magazine sat down with Keith Ward, CTO of Product Support Solutions, to discuss the latest issues surrounding migration, technology advantages with next generation platforms as well as some of the company's customers.