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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
VoiceGenie and Elan Speech Partner to Provide High-End Multilingual Speech-Enabled Solutions
TORONTO, ON, and TOULOUSE, France Nov. 20 - VoiceGenie
Technologies Inc., the world's leading provider of VoiceXML platforms,
development environments and tools for advanced speech solutions, and Elan
Speech, the worldwide Text-to-Speech provider, today announced their
partnership and marketing alliance to deliver high-end speech-enabled services
to enterprises and carriers worldwide.
The integration of Elan Speech's comprehensive Text-to-Speech (TTS)
offering for Telecom deployments will deliver additional support to VoiceGenie
in their international growth and European involvement. The joint solution
will provide the market with a comprehensive multilingual offering and Elan
Sayso golden tones, thus answering to increasing market demand with reliable
and innovative application-oriented text-to-speech.
VoiceGenie's speech platform allows enterprises and telecom carriers to
develop and deploy sophisticated IVR (Interactive Voice Response)
applications, speech-enabled services, and voice portals. Providing advanced
infrastructure solutions and services necessary for the creation of VAD (voice
activated dialling) and other speech applications, the platform allows users
to retrieve Web information, make online transactions and manage personal
communications (such as e-mail, voice mail and voice-activated dialling)
quickly and easily, simply by speaking into any phone - anywhere, anytime.
With Elan Sayso Text-to-Speech, VoiceGenie enriches its speech
technologies portfolio with a speech synthesis engine which has never been so
close to a real voice. Elan Sayso(TM) was developed by Elan Speech for
high-end applications and services such as unified messaging, email reading,
voice portals, e-marketing, public address, CRM, virtual agents and speakers,
etc. Elan Sayso now favourably relays the human voice, providing access to
information resulting in service optimization and cost reduction.
"VoiceGenie is excited about the new partnership with Elan Speech," said
Bruce Eidsvik, Vice President, Worldwide Sales with VoiceGenie Technologies.
"We are impressed with the quality of Elan's speech engine and are pleased to
further our commitment to integrate our platform with the industry's leading
speech technologies, thus providing our customers with a broad range of
technology choices to meet their specific needs."
Elan Sayso(TM) has already been largely deployed in high-profile Telecom
consumer services such as financial news on line, package tracking delivery
services, news agency bulletins, "self service" account management " or
virtual agents on-line animation.
About VoiceGenie:
VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. is the world's leading provider of open
VoiceXML platform solutions, development environments, and tools. Allowing
enterprises and telecom carriers to develop and deploy sophisticated IVR
(Interactive Voice Response) applications, speech-enabled services, and voice
portals, VoiceGenie's platform enables large-scale, mission-critical
applications worldwide, answering millions of calls for customers each day.
Delivering the highest levels of scalability, flexibility, performance, and
reliability, it allows applications to be deployed seamlessly into almost any
environment, leveraging investments in new and existing applications even as
the environment evolves. The VoiceGenie platform has received numerous
independent product awards.
Officially founded in January 2000, VoiceGenie's early work on its core
product dates back to 1995. Today, more than 2000 companies are using
VoiceGenie's platform solutions worldwide, including AT&T, AIG, Air Canada,
France Telecom, Merck, Mobilkom Austria, Orange, SBC Technology, Verizon,
Vesta, and others. VoiceGenie's partners comprise leading organizations such
as AT&T, BBN, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Rhetorical, Scansoft, Voxeo, and many more.
For additional information, please visit http://www.voicegenie.com.
About Elan Speech
As a leading world player in Text to Speech (TTS), Elan Speech focuses
exclusively on the development and marketing of natural-language interfaces.
Elan Speech brings organisations new ways of interacting with their clients,
providing new opportunities to speech-enable their world through
revenue-generating applications.
Elan TTS is the automatic production of speech, through a computer-based
system able to read any text aloud. It is deployed worldwide across multimedia
applications, wireless and mobile devices, Internet, telecom and automotive
systems. TTS speech-enables services and applications such as voice portals,
voice emails, unified messaging, talking web, interactive games, educational
software or navigation systems.
Since the beginning of Elan TTS in 1986, the company's multi-lingual TTS
products have been deployed across a wide range of revenue-earning
applications by hundreds of organisations worldwide. These include: Alcatel,
Atos Origin, Avis, Bosch Blaupunkt, BVRP, CAE, Cegetel, Daimler Chrysler,
Harman Becker, Intervoice, Magneti Marelli, Navtech, Oki, PSA, Siemens,
Support Comm, Tecnomen, Temic, Unisys, Vivendi.
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