Intel Selects VoiceBox Technologies to Voice-Enable Its Next-Generation Concept Platform for the Digital Home.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Companies to Demonstrate Voice-Enabled Concept Platform for the Digital Home at the Intel Developer Forum Intel Developer Forum (IDF), is a twice yearly gathering of technologists to discuss Intel products and products based around Intel products. The first IDF was in 1997. There is usually a Spring IDF and a Fall IDF. VoiceBox(R) Technologies Inc., the leading innovator of conversational voice search and control technologies, announced that its voice-enabled reference design was demonstrated today at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF (Intermediate Distribution Frame) A wiring rack located between the MDF (main distribution frame) and the intended end user devices (telephones, routers, PCs, etc.). Cables run from the outside world to the MDF and then to the IDFs. See MDF and wiring rack. ) in San Francisco with Intel Corporation's next-generation concept platform for the digital home. The demonstration signals the growing interest in utilizing voice technology to simplify user interaction with entertainment PCs. VoiceBox's unique conversational voice search and navigation technology executes tasks by identifying the context and user intention behind a request, enabling users to access movies, videos, music, channel guides and other digital content by simply asking for it in free-form language A language in which statements can reside anywhere on a line or even cross over lines. It does not imply less syntax structure, just more freedom in placing statements. For example, any number of blank spaces are allowed between symbols. Most high-level programming languages are free-form. . "Personal computing Refers to users working on their own computers rather than a terminal to a mainframe. Sometimes, the term refers to using computers at home for work and/or entertainment in contrast to business use only. See personal computer. is on the cusp of a significant shift in how users interface with the wide array of devices used on a daily basis -- whether you're at home, in the car or just on-the-go with a mobile device, the simplest way to find information is by voice," said Tom Freeman Tom Freeman is a graphic artist who designs tee-shirts and other projects for a company located in Walhalla, South Carolina. He has produced a series of ever-increasingly sophisticated shirt designs for the annual Spittoono , co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at VoiceBox Technologies VoiceBox is a company focused on speech recognition, search and information management. The company licenses its technology to makers of telematics, digital home, mobile phone and VoIP solutions, including:[1] InfoSpace[2][3], Johnson Controls . "We're thrilled to collaborate with an industry leader in chip innovation like Intel and to demonstrate at the IDF conference that voice technology has arrived." "We are delighted to have worked with VoiceBox Technologies to enable the demonstration of conversational voice search with Intel's next-generation concept platform for the digital home," said Gerald Holzhammer, vice president and general manager, Consumer PC Group, Digital Home Group at Intel. "Voice will be a natural means to interact with the wide array of devices to access content and services. We see voice input as an important element in future platform user interfaces." The Intel Developer Forum is widely recognized as a leading technical conference where business and marketing executives, technical managers, and engineers come to meet with groups across Intel and learn about trends and new technologies. About VoiceBox Technologies VoiceBox Technologies offers the world's first conversational voice search platform, called the VoiceBox Navigator Platform(TM), enabling breakthrough conversational search and navigation of digital content from any mobile device from any IP network. A key differentiator for VoiceBox's Navigator Platform is that it consistently achieves a remarkable level of task completion searching across multiple content domains through its Knowledge Enhanced Search and Speech Recognition (KESSR) algorithms, which determine the context and intention behind the words spoken by the user. Intelligent queries and searches are then dynamically executed by a voice search engine based on such context and user intent. The VoiceBox Navigator Platform runs on various embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. , desktop and server systems for application such as music and media, navigation and driving directions, directory and hands-free dialing, and control over digital devices. VoiceBox, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., develops and sells rich conversational language and voice search applications for the automotive, digital home, mobile phone and VOIP (Voice Over IP) A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8 and AT&T (CallVantage), typically offer calling within the country for a markets. More information is available through the Web site found at http://www.voicebox.com. |
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