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“The combined company will cover all of the major device manufacturers, portable operating systems and a good deal of the carriers themselves around the globe,” said Dan Miller, an analyst with Opus Research. “It’s going to be an accelerant to speech-enabled mobile search.”
From the article, “Nuance To Acquire Rival VoiceSignal In Big Mobile Push”, by Patrick Seitz, Investor’s Business Daily, May 15, 2007
May 16th, 2007 Derek Top
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A report by Opus Research forecasts that total spending by carriers, device makers, subscribers, and advertisers on mobile search will grow from $4 billion in 2006 to $7.5 billion in 2010.
Customers of the combined company will include handset makers like Nokia, Motorola, Palm, and RIM, as well as AOL, Toyota, and AT&T.
From the article, “VoiceSignal, Nuance Sing Harmony”, by Ken Schachter, Red Herring, May 15, 2007
May 15th, 2007 Derek Top
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An Opus Research report by Dan Miller and Greg Sterling said that mobile search success will start with a word:
The spoken word is the most natural way to initiate mobile searches – For safety reasons in the short-term, and convenience in the long-term, the seamless integration of a speech-based interface should take hold.
Driving the mobile commerce market, which the report predicts will move from $4 billion last year to $8 billion in 2010, will be the ever-familiar search metaphor. Moving around the mobile web will start with search, just as the PC-oriented web does today.
From the article, “Mobile Search: Speaking Truth to Profits”, by David Utter, WebProNews.com, May 14, 2007
May 15th, 2007 Derek Top
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Summerfield spoke recently at the Voice Biometrics Conference in Washington, DC, an event organized by Opus Research and billed as the “first voice biometrics conference in the world,” and Ars was there to bring back a front-line report on the state of the technology from those who are developing it.
Voice verification is here at last and poised to grow rapidly, but it’s still a small market. All forms of biometric identification generated $2 billion of revenue in 2006, according to Dan Miller, a senior analyst at Opus Research—and half of that money went to fingerprint scanning. But voice, due to particular passages we’ve been discussing, has already won over ABN AMRO, Bell Canada, Ameritrade, the Australian government, Volkswagen Financial Services, and (of all things) the US Department of Agriculture.
From the article, “Voice biometrics: coming to a security system near you”, by Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, May 13, 2007
May 13th, 2007 Derek Top
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To date, mobile voice-enabled search has been restricted almost entirely to basic directory assistance — a business worth about $4.1 billion a year, according to Dan Miller , senior analyst at Opus Research in San Francisco. , Miller projects that by 2010 the market will expand beyond 411 services and grow to $7.2 billion, as people begin to ask their phones to do everything from finding the nearest gas station to locating friends who are nearby.
“These are applications people are very familiar with,” Miller said. They just haven’t had the opportunity to use their voices to access them by asking their phone.
From the article, “The phone will tell all at the sound of your voice”, by Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe, April 26, 2007
April 26th, 2007 Derek Top
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The mobile search market has become the latest battlefield for Web search rivals Microsoft and Google, (GOOG) which recently launched a mobile search service called Google Local Voice Search.
“It’s definitely heating up,” said Dan Miller, an analyst with Opus Research. “With Microsoft buying Tellme, they will have more resources to roll out these services that (Tellme) had in beta and limited trial. That will speed things up.”
From the article, “After Microsoft Buy, Tellme Setting Sights (And Ears) On Mobile “, by Patrick Seitz, Investor’s Business Daily, April 16, 2007
April 17th, 2007 Derek Top
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Web-based voice services are still a relatively new field. The industry has so far been populated by small specialists, but is ripe for consolidation, says Dan Miller, an analyst at Opus Research Inc. of San Francisco. Companies spent $1.12 billion last year on voice-technology hardware, software and services for tasks such as speech recognition, up about 35% from $835 million in 2005, according to Opus.
From the article, “Microsoft Purchase Of Tellme Adds Voice To Web Initiative “, by Vauhini Vara , Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2007
March 15th, 2007 Derek Top
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Most of Tellme’s business today involves providing automated call center services for companies such as E-Trade, (ETFC) FedEx (FDX) and Merrill Lynch. (MER) But the acquisition is really a “mobile play” for Microsoft, said Dan Miller, an analyst with Opus Research.
From the article, “Microsoft Talks Up Plans For Its Tellme Purchase “, by Patrick Seitz, Investor’s Business Daily, March 14, 2007
March 15th, 2007 Derek Top
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The overall market for voice-recognition technology topped $1 billion for the first time in 2006, a 100 percent increase in just two years. Within that broad market, there are numerous subsectors that are likewise surging: The market for server-based voice-recognition technology to power call centers and the like reached nearly $600 million in 2006 and is expected to double by 2009, according to Opus Research.
From the article, “Driving by the sound of your voice “, by Jeanette Borzo, Business 2.0, February 2007 issue
February 15th, 2007 Derek Top
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Another thing IBM did about a year ago to accelerate the company’s ability to offer speech-enabled applications that are “truly useful” to the average person was to integrate its speech research into its core software group, said Dan Miller, an analyst with Opus Research in San Francisco.
“[This] means they’re willing to bring solutions that involve the full line of WebSphere middleware and application servers along into solutions that indeed involve speech,” he said.
IBM’s long-standing tradition of innovation also brings credibility to speech-enabled applications and could inspire more people to use them, Miller added.
From the article, “IBM taps partners to bolster speech applications “, by Elizabeth Montalbano, InfoWorld, February 13, 2007
January 15th, 2007 Derek Top
