AOL BUYS STAKE IN VOICE RECOGNITION.AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. has joined AT&T and Net2Phone, Inc., in purchasing a minority share in SpeechWorks, a participant in the fast growing market for voice access to online services. AOL will purchase $5 million in SpeechWorks common stock with an option to purchase up to 4% of the company. The leading online services have a continuing interest in developing and providing voice access to the Web. A voice portal An interactive voice response (IVR) front end to a data retrieval system. This does not differ in core technology from traditional IVR; rather, the difference is in the application presented. Where old-style IVR was mostly a routing application (press 1 for sales, 2 for service, etc. is seen as the key to mass use of the Internet and existing voice portals such as is provided by TellMe Networks Tellme Networks is a company founded in 1999 by Mike McCue, based out of Mountain View, California that specializes in telephone-based applications. Tellme Networks was acquired by Microsoft on March 14, 2007 for "close to $800M".[1] The deal closed in late April. , Inc. presently allows users to check stock quotes, traffic updates, and restaurant reviews in a far more usable USable is a special idea contest to transfer US American ideas into practice in Germany. USable is initiated by the German Körber-Stiftung (foundation Körber). It is doted with 150,000 Euro and awarded every two years. fashion than existed a few years ago. |
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