After six months in “beta”, speech application development specialist Nu Echo has made the “Basic Edition of its integrated development environment, NuGram generally available for free download. NuGram is fully integrated with Eclipse and is designed to provide the tools and programming environment to create, debug, tweak and maintain both static and dynamic grammars. In beta, it has proven itself to work with a broad spectrum of speech processing technologies. The company press release lists “Nuance GSL, Nuance OSR, Loquendo, IBM, LumenVox, and even Microsoft”. In addition, NuGram has been demonstrated to work “in conjunction” with VoiceXML service creation environments from a number of platform providers including Voxeo’s VoiceObjects, Cisco’s Unified Call Studio (nee Audium), openVXML, Nortel SCE, Avaya Dialog Designer among others.

While not a household name, Montreal-based Nu Echo has been in business for 20 years and has positioned its NuGram as “the universal grammar platform” for speech and text-based interactions

This “Basic Edition” will soon be followed up by a “Professional Edition”, as well as the NuGram Server “within the next few weeks.”

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