It’s official. The platform for AT&T’s Voicemail to Text service is Nuance Communications. As described on the AT&T Mobility Web site, the carrier charges $9.99 per month for the service, which enables subscribers to receive transcriptions of voicemail messages as email and/or text messages in addition to the traditional dial-in-and-retrieve method.
Digium partners with Vestec to offer low-cost speech recogntion engine for Asterisk.
VoltDelta OnDemand Solutions shows that Volt Information Sciences has done a super job of assimilating a succession of recent acquisitions.
One of the first announcement out of SpeechTEK comes from a pair of companies striving to promote faster development of multi-modal self-service systems that involve specialized grammars.
Tellme had some interesting research results regarding social, mobile multitasking. Not surprisingly, it reveals that the group of mobile subscribers who have smartphones have their phones at ready and in use when they undertake their daily activities.
Melodis, developer of the Midomi mobile music identification application, has raised $4 million in funding
We completed a very interesting phone briefing with Todd Moser, CEO of, a company that specializes in affordable, embedded speech processing technologies.
Two firms long known for innovative, high-visibility speech applications are joining forces to enable mobile subscribers to dictate and originate SMS text messages.
When Apple purged the App Store of all things Google Voice, it revealed about itself what “deKindling” the unauthorized version of Orwell’s “1984” did for Amazon.com.
Two developments will have an impact on the integration of speech applications with Symbian-based mobile phones and services around the world.