NSC and TalkerNet Partnership, to Drive Most Advanced UK Speech Activated Applications.Business/High-Tech Editors TalkerNet and NSC NSC abbr. National Security Council Noun 1. NSC - a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security; supervises the Central Intelligence Agency today announced a partnership. TalkerNet develops speech gateway technology based on NSC's speech recognition engine. TalkerNet's speech gateway technology, TotalVoice, enables the development of cost effective speech driven information lines, voice portals 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. , voice commerce applications and messaging solutions without the need of programming or special expertise in speech technologies, meaning minimal time to market. NSC's speech recognition engine running on a PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). board, enables application developers to develop speech-driven applications. Each board can run up to 120 concurrent speech recognition channels, depending on the speech recognition task complexity. Voice portals based on the products of TalkerNet and NSC have been activated recently in the UK with Independent Digital, the digital arm of Independent News & Media Group. A user can receive live world cup information and navigate via voice using a landline Land based. Refers to standard telephone and data communications systems that use in-ground and telephone pole cables in contrast to wireless cellular and satellite services. or mobile phone. TalkerNet UK, the local arm of Talkernet Group is providing speech solutions that geared specifically for the UK market. Talkernet UK speech solution supports all UK speech dialects and has the ability to provide speech driven services even in noisy mobile environments. Moreover, TalkerNet's speech solutions combine SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. to voice, which provides an unmatched interactive speech solution. Using the TotalVoice speech gateway, content provider, carriers and organizations can develop speech driven applications without programming or additional investment in hardware or software. Applications such as: Voice Portal, Voice Email As early as 2001, the term "voice email" came into use to refer (1) email messages that contained voice, (2) products that can send email messages that contain voice, (3) products that provide an interactive voice response system for reviewing and/or creating email. , Virtual Office, SMS to Voice and more. "We have chosen NSC for its high-density and cost-effective price per speech recognition channel. NSC's product enables us to offer a complete solution within one box mainly due to the fact that NSC's product does not require Pentium resources," said Ronen Devashi, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of TalkerNet Group. "NSC's solution was easy to install and integrate and together with the support we received, shortened short·en v. short·ened, short·en·ing, short·ens v.tr. 1. To make short or shorter. 2. our time to market." "NSC is very pleased to be working with TalkerNet and support its deployments," said Dr. Ami Moyal, CEO of NSC. "We believe that NSC's DSP-based speech recognition solution fits mass market voice activated services. Together with TalkerNet's unique speech gateway technology, carriers, content provider and organizations now more then ever, can easily deploy and maintain cutting edge speech driven services without the need of engineering or special expertise, which results in a cost effective solutions and short time to market." TalkerNet Group TalkerNet Group is a global voice portal and speech technology player. TalkerNet's speech gateway technology comprises of world-class speech recognition access, human sounding text-to-speech, audio, streaming, trascoding algorithms and voice browsing technology. TalkerNet enables content providers, mobile operators and organizations to develop cost effective speech driven information, voice commerce and messaging applications. TalkerNet's has a hosted and ready to license solutions. It enables carriers, content providers, organizations and businesses to develop speech driven services without the need of engineering or development expertise. TalkerNet has an R&D center in South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. and Israel, and its European headquarters are in London, UK. NSC-Natural Speech Communication Ltd. NSC - Natural Speech Communication Ltd. provides cost-competitive and high-density speech recognition boards for telephony speech-driven services. Thus, NSC's customers are able to build voice driven systems serving thousands of users simultaneously, while maintaining low costs, low footprint and low power consumption. Independent Digital Ltd (IDL (1) (Interface Definition Language) A language used to describe the interface to a routine or function. For example, objects in the CORBA distributed object environment are defined by an IDL, which describes the services performed by the object and how the data ) Independent Digital Ltd (IDL) is the online division of Independent News and Media (UK) Ltd, publishers of The Independent, the Independent on Sunday and with a wide range of regional newspaper and magazine interests. IDL brings together the digital assets of this leading news, information and entertainment group, serving more than 17 million page impressions to its loyal customer base across the world. The Independent News and Media footprint spans four continents. In the UK IN&M owns the Belfast Telegraph, the leading newspaper group in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland: see Ireland, Northern. Northern Ireland Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupying the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland. Area: 5,461 sq mi (14,144 sq km). Population (2001): 1,685,267. as well as the flagship Independent titles, and in addition has market leading newspaper positions in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. and South Africa. |
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