The market for voice biometrics-based solutions has matured significantly in the past year. In this document Opus Research compares the products and strategic position of a select group of solution providers and presents structured analysis that should benefit decision makers planning to introduce speaker verification in their contact centers or on mobile devices or networks.
On April 23rd U.S. Bank, the 5th largest commercial bank in the United States, reported that it is piloting a branded version of Nuance Communications’ Nina(TM) Mobile to support a speech-enabled mobile virtual assistant.
Amazon appears to have bought mobile virtual assistant developer EVI (formerly TrueKnowledge) for $26 million.
Amazon.com’s acquisition of text-to-speech specialist IVONA marks progress along two separate paths for Conversational Commerce.
The market for voice biometrics-based solutions has matured significantly in the past year. In this document Opus Research compares the products and strategic position of a select group of solution providers and presents structured analysis that should benefit decision makers planning to introduce speaker verification in their contact centers or on mobile devices or networks.
With a set of services, features and capabilities that closely resemble Vlingo, Nuance Communications has launched Dragon Personal Assistant.
Singapore will be the epicenter for voice biometrics activity in the Asia Pacific region when Opus Research convenes Voice Biometrics Conference-Singapore on November 7-8, 2012. Speakers and attendees will be executives from commercial banks, government agencies, mobile carriers and technology companies from around the globe.
With very little fanfare, Microsoft is ready to deep six Bing 411, the free voice search and directory assistance service that grew out of its acquisition of Tellme Networks (which took place in may 2007).
Spoken queries to Siri regarding electronic gadgets, appliances, games and computers will result in a display of responses that include the the SKUs (stock keeping units) in Best Buy’s catalog
SingTel and Novauris launched a version of voice search that is tailored specifically for “the unique style of English” that is spoken on the nation-island of Singapore.