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  • A New Day for Enhanced DA: Nuance Preps to Take on Tellme

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    Nuance’s purchase of BeVocal signals that a race is on to build the optimal platform for automated handling of speech-enabled search, especially from mobile subscribers. The $8 billion+ market for automated directory assistance will be the first battleground. Today, Tellme is the market leader, but Nuance and partners are positioning themselves to gain market share while focusing on the longer term opportunities for speech-enabled mobile search (SEMS).

  • Assessing the Speech-Enabled, Mobile Landscape

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    Embedded speech made quite a splash at last week’s 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Nuance, IBM, VoiceSignal and Tellme Networks have rallied sufficient participation among wireless carriers, device makers and content providers to get a significant percentage of the general public using spoken commands to message, search and take command of their mobile resources.

  • Business 2.0 – February 2007

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    Excerpt: 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… Read More ›

  • View from RSA 2007: Voice Biometrics Have Much to Prove

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    Attending this year’s RSA Conference gave us the chance to gauge the security community’s perception and acceptance of voice biometrics. Bottom line: Security officers and solution vendors remain skeptical of speaker verification as a strong authentication solution. It’s up to the vendor community to connect-the-dots for security advocates by making it clear that biometrics figure into security solutions and, where phones are concerned, voice biometrics fit the bill.

  • CAT Foundations 2007: Making Speech Matter

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    In an era of tepid IT spending growth (a modest 5%-7% for 2007, according to most estimates), speech-enabled self-service and associated application software and services is growing in excess of 20%. Much of the growth is a reflection of top management’s heavy involvement in technology purchases. Executives now find that a higher return on investment (ROI) and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) result from effectively deploying self-service resources that leverage IP-telephony and Web services investments, extending speech processing access over traditional telephones and mobile devices.

  • SAP Shows NetWeaver Voice at Genesys Event

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    At the recent Genesys Analyst Conference, SAP offered a preview of a solution integrating NetWeaver Voice runtime resources with the Genesys Voice Portal (GVP). The use case on display involved the automated dispatch of a utility company’s field technician based on an emergency situation. To complete the task, GVP performed under the command of NetWeaver Voice’s “voice dialogue runtime,” which is built on VoiceObjects technology. NetWeaver Voice has been available to developers for a number of months but will be formally introduced at SAP’s SAPPHIRE gathering in Atlanta in April.

  • Introducing Voice Biometrics Conference 2007

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    In spite of recent recognition, voice biometric-based authentication, identification and verification remains an under-appreciated phenomenon. That’s why Opus Research is organizing a new event with a strong focus on voice biometrics as a cost-effective and efficacious candidate for strong authentication deployments. It’s time for the primary stakeholders on the enterprise side – ranging from enterprise IT, security specialists and customer care executives to meet the companies that are constructing voice biometric-based solutions.

  • InfoWorld – February 13, 2007

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    Excerpt: 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,… Read More ›

  • Linux Journal – January 12, 2007

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    Excerpt: Many have spoken or written about what the iPhone won’t do. Tom Evslin laments the locked-in exclusivity of Apple’s Cingular partnership, and also provides a nice run-down of comments from his own readers and other sources. Dan Miller says… Read More ›

  • iPhone Lacks Conversational Aspects

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    iPhone may be a tour-de-force for the touchscreen, but it’s inexplicably odd to introduce a new smartphone with so few speech-based features. I can hardly express how profoundly disappointed I am that this shiny, new thing – the first must-have product since Nintendo’s Wii – has less voice processing than Tickle-Me Elmo.