Amazon appears to have bought mobile virtual assistant developer EVI (formerly TrueKnowledge) for $26 million.
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Now It Can Be Told: AT&T Watson Provides the Voice For Interactions
Interactions and AT&T let it be known that the AT&T Watson(sm) portfolio of speech processing, natural language understanding and text-to-speech rendering are foundational to Interactions’ highly human-sounding self-service resources.
Twilio API Now Serves as Conduit into Google’s App Engine
Twilio has joined the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program, making them the first provider of an API through which Google’s community of developers can integrate SMS text messaging and voice calling into their applications.
Nuance Voice Ads Debut: Back to the Future of Voice-based Interactive Advertising
Nuance is launching a Conversational Ad initiative with Nuance Voice Ads.
WebRTC Eclipses Mobility as the Talk of Enterprise Connect
Using audience size as an indicator, WebRTC has definitely entered the “irrational exuberance” phase on anybody’s hype cycle.
[24]7 Makes Visual Speech a Cornerstone to Multimodal, Mobile Customer Care
[24]7 has formally announced general availability of its Visual Speech solution. This is precisely the product that we expected to see from the company that merges long-standing development in predictive analytics (carried out by Voxify), investment in natural user interfaces for interactive self-service (by Tellme and Voxify) and context-aware, multi-channel customer care (from 24/7 Customer).
Paypal CISO Michael Barrett to Keynote Voice Biometrics Conference San Francisco
Paypal Chief Information Security Officer Michael Barrett, one of the most respected security industry executives and expert in identity management, keynotes Voice Biometrics Conference in San Francisco (May 8-9, 2013).
West Launches IPO, S-1 Shows Steady Growth and Profitability
West’s S-1 filing shows prospective investors the financial results of a well-diversified technology company, divided into two separate operating units.
Nuance Targets Small- and Mid-Sized Businesses for Password Reset Technology
Long seen as the low-hanging fruit for businesses to implement voice biometric technology, allowing employees to reset passwords and get access to corporate services through voice verification is an increasingly common tool for IT help desks. This is especially true… Read More ›
iSpeech Finding Niche with TTS; Pearson and Evernote to Use Publisher Platform
Automated speech processing specialist iSpeech has launched iSpeech for Publishers, a new set of tools and services that make it possible for content creators and aggregators to have articles or postings “read” to them by life-like voices.