The relationship between IBM and Nuance Communications continues to evolve, with Big Blue’s naming Nuance a “Preferred Business Partner.”
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Voxeo Launches Open Source Telephony Lab, Hires Adhearsion’s Founders
The world of Recombinant Telephony has gone lab-less long enough. Noting that his inspiration is the legendary Bell Labs (which is now part of Alcatel-Lucent), Voxeo’s CEO Jonathan Taylor has chartered, and his company is funding, a new facility dedicated to core platform research in an effort to “incubate revolutionary ideas and innovate new communications solutions.”
To run Voxeo’s Lab, the company is hiring Jay Phillips and Jason Goecke, who ran Adhearsion, a three-year-old company that developed an open source, Ruby-based development framework for communications applications. That makes Voxeo the primary sponsor of Adhearsion. But the company’s core will continue to run on top of the Asterisk open source PBX platform and will soon add support for Voxeo’s Tropo cloud telephony service.
Stepped Up Activity for Symbian OS
Two developments will have an impact on the integration of speech applications with Symbian-based mobile phones and services around the world.
Nortel Approves Avaya’s Bid for Assets; Could Cast Its Aura Around Enterprise Software
A relatively paultry $475 million is the amount accepted by Nortel from Avaya as a “stalking horse” bid.
IBM Rushes In; Microsoft Exits SMB “UC Appliance” Market
IBM is amping up its efforts to provide a UC appliance to small businesses just as Microsoft has turned out the lights on its analogous product.
Rethinking Google Voice on Android and Blackberrys
The availability of Google Voice features on smartphones illustrates why number portability may not be as important as previously thought.
Nuance Nabs Jott; Targets Mobile Assistance, UC and CRM
The acquisition of Seattle-based Jott brings a few mature applications and a few hundred thousand registered users to Nuance’s suite of voice-enabled mobile services. Founded in 2006 as part of a small covey of firms specializing in mobile transcription, Jott… Read More ›
Major Update for Fonolo
Fonolo stepped up its efforts to swing the self-service pendulum closer to the customer with the release of a major update of its “Deep Dialing” platform.
Recession Spurs Innovation
We’ve been struck by some of the recent announcements surrounding activity in various “Labs” run by the luminaries of Search, Cloud Computing and IP-Telephony.
New Attention to Mobile Voice Control (Thanks Apple and Om!)
“How Speech Technologies Will Transform Mobile Use” is a topic that’s near and dear to my heart; but at this point I would frame the issue as “How Mobile Use Will Transform Speech Technologies.”