Speech Technology eWeekly - March 26, 2008

Features

Just Utter Something to Connect Online

Utterz, which provides a service that allows users to connect with their online social circle via mobile phone, announced today new connections to YouTube, LiveSpaces, Drupal, Yahoo!Groups, and Twixter.

FYI

Asia's Contact Center Boom

Industry giants IBM and Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories are bringing their contact center expertise to China

Speech Technology News

Speech Pioneer Raj Reddy to Be Honored by IEEE

Raj Reddy receives international recognition for applying tools of artificial intelligence in the development of speech recognition technologies.

IBM Gets Sci-Fi and Al Gore Materializes

Former vice president touts the carbon emissions-reducing environmental benefits of unified communications.

Nuance Hits the Right Note for Samsung

Vendor inks huge multiyear deal to provide mobile voice suite to electronics manufacturer.

Avaya, Microsoft Ask If You See the Future in UC

In a pair of keynotes at VoiceCon 2008, Avaya and Microsoft executives lay out the future of unified communications.

Forward Thinking

Embedded Speech in China

The Chinese market for embedded speech is no longer wishful thinking