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Speech Recognition (SR) Software
Although it has other applications, speech recognition potentially provides a far more powerful interface to an IVR application than the telephone keypad. But it comes at a significant cost. The primary market model involves developers of speech recognition software selling it to the developers of IVR systems who incorporate it, as well as text-to-speech software, into their products.
Consulting Projects Involving Speech Recognition
Occidental Communications has undertaken assignments advising clients on the potential for the use of speech technologies. A number of such projects have, following analyses of clients' call types, involve the design of a complete IVR application using speech recognition and subsequent procurement of the solution. For more details, see the Call Centre Consulting page.
International Directory
This directory is of developers of speech recognition software. In contrast to other Internet sites that purport to be directories of speech recognition software, this directory does not include any integrators, consultants, conference organisers, magazines, distributors or providers of products related to speech recognition. Every one of the companies listed has developed the speech recognition software listed therein - they are not integrators or incorporators of speech recognition software developed by others.
Acapela Group
33, Boulevard Dolez, 7000 Mons, Belgium
The Acapela Group develops SR software for telephony, PC, embedded and industrial applications.
| Products | acapela telecom, acapela multimedia, acapela onboard, acapela mobility |
| Languages supported | Dutch, British English, American English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Greek (beta version) and Icelandic (beta version) |
| Availability | Belgium, Sweden |
| Note | The Acapela Group also develops text to speech and voice authentication software. |
Speech FX from Accettura Software
Product discontinued.
Aculab
Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT UK
Aculab develops SR software for its telephony circuit cards which it sells for use in IVR systems.
| Languages supported | British English, American English, French, German, and Latin American Spanish. Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese are in development |
| Availability | UK, Australia, Germany and the USA |
| Note | Aculab also develops text to speech software. |
Advanced Recognition Technologies (ART)
Advanced Recognition Technologies was acquired by Scansoft in 2005 which subsequently acquired Nuance in 2005 and renamed itself Nuance Communications.
Aixplan AG
Aixplan has been acquired by Apptek.
Altech (Applied Language Technologies)
Altech renamed itself Speechworks and was subsequently acquired by Scansoft in 2003 which, in turn, acquired Nuance in 2005 and renamed itself Nuance Communications.
Anhui USTC iFLYTEK Co. Ltd.
Huan Shan lu 373, Hefei, an hui 230026 China
Anhui develops SR software for telephony and embedded applications.
| Product | InterPhonic |
| Languages supported | Cantonese, Chinese English and Mandarin |
| Availability | China |
| Note | Anhui also develops text to speech software. |
Apptek
6867 Elm St. Suite 300, McLean, Vir 22101, USA
Apptek develops SR software for IVR systems, embedded systems, translation systems and spoken document retrieval systems.
| Product | PlainSpeech |
| Languages supported | Gulf Arabic, Egyptian, American English, British English and German |
| Availability | [to be advised] |
Applied Technologies on Language and Speech (ATLAS)
ATLAS renamed itself VERBIO TECHNOLOGIES S.L.
ATIP
Daimlerstraße 32, D-60314 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
ATIP develops SR software for embedded systems, dictation, PC navigation applications.
Aurix (formerly named 20/20 Speech Ltd.)
Malvern Hills Science Park, Geraldine Road, Malvern, Worcs., WR14 3SZ UK
Aurix develops SR software for telecommunications, media, legal, PDAs and handheld applications.
| Product | Aurix asr |
| Languages supported | British English |
| Availability | UK, USA |
Babel Technologies
In 2001, Babel Technologies merged with Elan Speech and Babel Infovox to form the Acapela Group.
BBN Technologies
10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, Mass 02138 USA
| Phone | | +1 617 873 8000 |
| Fax | | +1 617 873 2956 |
| Internet | | http://www.bbn.com |
| E-mail | | pr [at] bbn.com |
BBN Technologies develops SR software for IVR systems.
| Product | Byblos |
| Languages supported | Modern Standard Arabic, Chinese, American English and Spanish |
| Availability | United States |
Beijing InfoQuick SinoVoice Speech Technology Corp (SinoVoice)
Suite 206, Great Road Building, ZGC Software Park, Haidian District, Beijing, China
SinoVoice develops SR software
| Product | jASR |
| Languages supported | Chinese |
| Availability | China |
| Note | SinoVoice also develops text to speech software. |
Böhme Datentechnik
Böhme Datentechnik was acquired by peiker acustic in 2011 and its speech recognition product was discontinued.
Breveon
Breveon, formerly of Palo Alto, Calif, USA, is no longer in business.
Business Computer Projects
BCP House, 151 Charles Street, Stockport, SK1 3JY England UK
Business Computer Projects develops SR software for its logistics applications.
| Product | Accord Voice |
| Languages supported | English |
| Availability | Europe |
| Note | Business Computer Projects also develops text to speech software. |
Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories
Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories, formerly of Taipei, Taiwan, is no longer in business.
Command Corp.
Command Corp, formerly of Alpharetta, Geo USA, is no longer in business.
CatchWord
La Montagne 25, Heldervue, Somerset West, Western Cape, 7130, South Africa
CatchWord develops SR software for telephony and speech-mining applications.
| Products | SpeechMODELS for telephony applications
SpeechGREP for speech-mining applications |
| Languages supported | Afrikaans, South African English, Xhosa and Zulu |
| Availability | South Africa |
Conversay
Conversay, formerly of Redmond, Wash, USA, is no longer in business.
Theis Research & Engineering / Conversational Voice Technologies
4205 Grove Avenue, Gurnee, Illinois, USA
Theis Research & Engineering LLC develops SR software which is used in the bureau operated by Conversational Voice Technologies.
| Languages supported | Danish, Dutch, American English, Australian English, British English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish |
| Availability | Bureau is in USA, can potentially be called from anywhere |
DSP Group
3120 Scott Boulevard, Santa Clara, Calif 95054-3317 USA
| Phone | | +1 408 986 4300 |
| Fax | | +1 408 986 4323 |
| Internet | | http://www.dspg.com |
| E-mail | | mcompton [at] dspg.com |
The DSP Group develops SR software for embedded systems.
| Product | FlexiSpeech |
| Languages supported | Language independent |
| Availability | United States, China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan |
Dragon Systems
Dragon Systems, formerly of Newton, Mass, USA was acquired in 2000 by Lernout & Hauspie, formerly of Ieper, Belgium, which is no longer in business. Its intellectual property was acquired by Scansoft in 2001 which subsequently acquired Nuance in 2005 and renamed itself Nuance Communications.
Ectaco Inc.
Ectaco Corporate Center, 31-21 31st Street, Long Island City, NY, 11106 USA
Ectaco develops SR software for its own products.
| Products | Voice Translator, Universal Translator, Accent Remover and Spelling Keyboard |
| Languages supported | Recognition: English and Russian; Translation: Chinese, English, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish |
| Availability | Worldwide, via the Internet |
| Note | Ectaco also develops text to speech software. |
Ensigma Technologies
Ensigma Technologies was acquired by Imagination Technologies in 2000.
Entropic
Entropic was acquired by Microsoft in 1999.
eVmail Technology
eVmail Technology, formerly of Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, is no longer in business.
Fast-Talk Communications
Renamed Nexidia
Fluency Voice Technology Ltd.
Fluency Voice Technology was acquired by Syntellect in 2008.
Fonix
9350 South 150 East, Suite 700, Sandy, Utah 84070 USA
Fonix develops SR software for mobile phones and PDAs, electronic games, in-vehicle applications and IVR systems.
| Products | ConnectMe for telephony applications
VoiceIn for electronic games
VoiceDial for mobile phones and PDAs
Fonix AutoSuite for in-vehicle applications |
| Languages supported | American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Swedish |
| Availability | USA, Australia, China, Europe, Japan and Korea |
| Note | Fonix also develops text to speech software. |
Game Commander
Game Commander, formerly of Placerville, Calif, USA, is no longer in business.
G2 Speech B.V.
Spegelt 4a PO Box 70 5670 AB Nuenen, The Netherlands
G2 Speech develops dictation software for medical specialists.
| Product | MediSpeech |
| Languages supported | Dutch and British English |
| Availability | The Netherlands, UK |
GVZ Speech Technologies
In 2007, GVZ Speech Technologies was acquired by Sestek.
GyrusLogic
4110 East Via Estrella, Phoenix, Ariz 85028, USA
GyrusLogic develops SR software for telephony applications.
| Product | Platica Conversational Dialog engine |
| Languages supported | American English, German and Spanish |
| Availability | Worldwide, via the Internet |
HandHeld Speech
18 Hillside Ave. Amesbury, Mass 01913-2206 USA
HandHeld Speech develops SR software for handheld devices.
| Product | Voice LookUp |
| Languages supported | American English |
| Availability | Worldwide, via the Internet |
Home Automated Living, Inc.
14401 Sweitzer Lane, Suite 600, Laurel, Mld 20707 USA
Home Automated Living develops SR software to control home appliances.
| Products | SpeechMODELS for telephony applications
SpeechGREP for speech-mining applications |
| Languages supported | American English |
| Availability | USA |
HTK
HTK of Ipswitch, UK and not to be confused with the product of the former Entropic company of the same name, no longer develops speech recognition technology.
IBM
8051 Congress Ave, Boca Raton, Fla 33487, USA
| Phone | | +1 561 862 3380 |
| Internet | | http://www.ibm.com/speech |
| E-mail | | IBM refuses to provide a general email address for its speech technology division. |
IBM’s speech recognition software is implemented both in its ViaVoice dictation products and its WebSphere Voice Server IVR systems.
| Product | ViaVoice and WebSphere Voice Server |
| Languages supported | Dutch, American English, British English, French, Canadian French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and North American Spanish |
| Availability | Worldwide |
| Note | IBM also develops text to speech software. |
iConverse Inc.
iConverse, formerly of Waltham, Mass USA, is no longer in business.
Imagination Technologies
Imagination Technologies no longer develops speech recognition technology.
Infospace
Infospace, formerly of Bellevue, Wash, USA, is no longer in business, intellectual property acquired by Nuance.
InfoTalk
Unit 507, Tech Centre, 72 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
InfoTalk develops SR software for IVR systems.
| Product | InfoTalk-Recognizer |
| Languages supported | Cantonese, American English, British English, Singapore English, Hong Kong English, Philipino English, Korean, Beijing Mandarin, Shanghai Mandarin, Shenzhen Mandarin, Singapore Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin |
| Availability | China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan |
| Note | InfoTalk also develops text to speech and voice authentication software. |
iVoice Inc.
750 Highway 34 Matawan, NJ 07747 USA
| Phone | | +1 732 441 7700 |
| Fax | | +1 732 441 9895 |
| Internet | | http://www.ivoice.com |
| E-mail | | information [at] ivoice.com |
iVoice develops SR software for IVR and related applications.
| Product | Speech SDK |
| Languages supported | American English |
| Availability | All English-speaking countries, via the Internet |
Kaz Group Ltd.
The Kaz Group, formerly of Sydney, NSW, Australia, was acquired by Telstra in 2004 and onsold to Fujitsu in 2009. Along the way, the Speech(fx) product it had acquired was discontinued.
Korteam
Korteam renamed itself Breveon, which is no longer in business.
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Lernout & Hauspie, formerly of Ieper, Belgium, is no longer in business. Its intellectual property was acquired by Scansoft in 2001 which subsequently acquired Nuance in 2005 and renamed itself Nuance Communications.
Lingsoft
Hämeentie 31 A, 6th floor, FI-00500 Helsinki Finland
Lingsoft develops SR software for IVR systems and Windows applications.
| Product | Lingsoft Speech Recognizer |
| Languages supported | Finnish |
| Availability | Finland |
Locus Dialogue
Locus Dialogue, formerly of Montreal, Que, Canada, was acquired by Infospace which is no longer in business, intellectual property acquired by Nuance.
Loquendo SpA
Infospace, formerly of Torino Italy, was acquired by Nuance in 2011.
LumenVox
3615 Kearny Villa Rd. #202, San Diego, Calif 92123 USA
LumenVox develops SR software for various applications.
| Product | LumenVox Speech Engine |
| Languages supported | North American English |
| Availability | Australia, USA |
MacSpeech
MacSpeech, formerly of Bedford, NH USA, was acquired by Nuance in 2010.
Mediadrive
Kumagaya-Ekimae Bldg. 7F. Tsukuba 3-195 Kumagaya Saitama 360-0037 Japan
Mediadrive commercialises the research of Real World Computing Partnership and develops SR software for scanning media applications on Mac and Windows PCs.
| Languages supported | Japanese |
| Availability | Japan |
Microsoft
1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, Wash 98052, USA
Microsoft’s speech recognition software is embedded into the Microsoft Office Communications Server and Windows Vista platforms.
| Languages supported | Microsoft Office Communications Server: American English, British English, Canadian French, German and North American Spanish |
| Windows Vista: Chinese, British English, French, German and Spanish |
| Availability | Canada, Germany, the UK and the USA |
| Note | Microsoft also develops text to speech and VoiceXML software. |
Mindmaker
Mindmaker, formerly of Placerville, Calif, USA, is no longer in business.
Motorola
Motorola no longer develops speech recognition technology.
Multimodal Technologies, Inc. (M*Modal)
319 South Craig Street Pittsburgh, Penn 15213 USA
Multimodal Technologies develops SR software for its own dictation system.
| Product | AnyModal |
| Languages supported | English |
| Availability | USA |
Natural Speech Communication (NSC)
33 Lazarov St, PO Box 5212 Rishon Le-Zion, 75150 Israel
| Phone | | +972 3 951 9779 |
| Fax | | +972 3 951 9671 |
| Internet | | http://www.nsc.co.il |
| E-mail | | info [at] nscspeech.com |
NSC develops SR software embedded in its circuits boards for voice-driven services.
| Product | SpeechBlade |
| Languages supported | British English, North American English and Hebrew, (access to language resources for 50 other languages) |
| Availability | Israel |
Natural Touch
14 rue du bois Guillaume, 91000 Evry, France
Natural Touch develops SR software for IVR systems.
| Product | Dialoca Software Suite |
| Languages supported | French |
| Availability | France |
| Note | Natural Touch also develops VoiceXML software. |
Natural Vox
C/ Beato Tomás de Zumárraga, 31 01008-Vitoria, Spain
Natural Vox develops SR software for IVR systems.
| Product | BpT |
| Languages supported | Basque, Catalan, English and Spanish |
| Availability | Spanish-speaking countries |
NeuVoice
NeuVoice, formerly of Teddington, Middlesex, UK, is no longer in business.
Nexidia (formerly named Fast-Talk Communications)
3565 Piedmont Road, Building 2 Suite 400, Atlanta, Geo 30305 USA
Nexidia develops SR software for media asset management applications.
| Product | Enterprise Speech Intelligence (ESI) |
| Languages supported | Arabic, American English and Spanish |
| Availability | USA and UK (worldwide through partners) |
NTT
NTT Cyber Communication Laboratory Group 1-1 Hikarino-oka, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa, 239-0847 Japan
NTT develops SR software for IVR systems, PC control applications and dictation systems.
| Languages supported | English and Japanese |
| Availability | Japan |
| Note | NTT also develops text to speech software. |
Nuance Communications
1 Wayside Road, Burlington, Mass 01803 USA
Nuance develops SR software for IVR systems and mobile devices.
| Product | Nuance V8.5 (for IVR systems) |
| Languages supported | Jordanian Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, American English, Australian English, British English, Singaporean English, South African English, French, Canadian French, German, Austrian German, Swiss German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Taiwanese Mandarin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Product | OpenSpeech Recogniser (for IVR systems) |
| Languages supported | Hong Kong Cantonese, American English, British English, Australian English, Singaporean English, Finnish, Standard French, Canadian French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Taiwanese Mandarin, Portuguese, Standard Spanish and Mexican Spanish |
| Product | Vsuite (for mobile devices) |
| Languages supported | English |
| Product | Loquendo ASR |
| Languages supported | Catalan, American English, British English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Argentinean Spanish, Castilian Spanish, Chilean Spanish and Swedish |
| Products | ListenDo! and MacSpeech Dictate |
| Languages supported | Dutch, American English, British English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish |
| Product | SpeechAdvance ASR Server |
| Languages supported | Arabic, American English, British English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish |
| Availability | Germany |
| Product | SpeechAdvance ASR Embedded |
| Languages supported | Language independent |
| Availability | USA, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Japan, Singapore and the UK |
| Note | Nuance also develops text to speech, voice authentication and VoiceXML software. |
Parrot SA
174 quai de Jemmapes 75010 Paris, France
| Phone | | +33 1 48 03 60 60 |
| Fax | | +33 1 48 03 06 66 |
| Internet | | http://www.parrot.com |
| E-mail | | sales.overseas [at] parrot.com |
Parrot develops SR software for automotive applications and their organiser product.
| Languages supported | language independent |
| Availability | Europe, North America and parts of Africa and Asia |
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V, Philips Speech Processing - Dictation Systems
Guttheil Schoder Gasse 12, A-1102 Vienna, Austria
| Phone | | +43 1 60101 0 |
| Fax | | +43 1 60101 1268 |
| Internet | | http://www.philips.com |
| E-mail | | speech.processing [at] philips.com |
Philips develops SR software for its dictation products.
| Product | Philips Dictation Systems |
| Languages supported | several |
| Availability | Worldwide |
| Note | Philips's telephony speech recognition products were sold to Scansoft which subsequently acquired Nuance in 2005 and renamed itself Nuance Communications. |
Phonetic Systems
Phonetic Systems was acquired in 2004 by Scansoft which subsequently acquired Nuance in 2005 and renamed itself Nuance Communications.
Phonexia s.r.o.
U Vodárny 3032/2a, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Phonexia develops SR software that performs keyword spotting for security and defence applications.
| Product | Phonexia Acoustic Keyword Spotting |
| Languages supported | Czech, English, Russian and Slovak |
| Availability | Worldwide, via the Internet |
| Note | Phonexia also develops text to speech and voice authentication software. |
PureSpeech Inc.
PureSpeech was acquired in 1998 by Voice Control Systems which was acquired in 1999 by Philips which in 2002 sold its speech recognition products to Scansoft which subsequently acquired Nuance in 2005 and renamed itself Nuance Communications.
Pyxis
Pyxis, formerly of Melbourne, Vic, Australia, is no longer in business, and its intellectual property was acquired by the Kaz Group. The Kaz Group was acquired by Telstra in 2004 and onsold to Fujitsu in 2009. Along the way, the Speech(fx) product has been discontinued.
Ricoh
7th Floor, Tomin-Nissei-Kasugacho Building 1-1-17 Koishikawa, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0002, Japan
| Phone | | +81 3 3815 7261 |
| Fax | | +81 3 3818 0348 |
| Internet | | http://www.ricoh.com |
| E-mail | | www-admin [at] ricoh.co.jp |
Ricoh develops SR software for its own mobile phones.
| Languages supported | Japanese |
| Availability | Japan |
| Note | Ricoh also develops text to speech software. |
Rubidium
PO Box 2099 8 Hasadna St. Raanana, 43000, Israel
Rubidium develops miniature footprint SR chips, software and applications including smart toys, remote controls, telephones, domestic appliances and automotive interior devices.
| Languages supported | American English, British English, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin |
| Availability | China, Hong-Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Western Europe and the USA. |
| Note | Rubidium also develops text to speech and voice authentication software. |
SAIL LABS Technology AG
Mariannengasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
SAIL LABS Technology develops SR software for broadcast news transcription and multimedia analysis applications.
| Products | Media Mining System, PodMining, Communication Mining |
| Languages supported | Arabic, American English, British English, French, Standard German, Austrian German, and American Spanish with Greek in development |
| Availability | Europe, USA, Middle East and Southeast Asia |
| Note | SAIL LABS Technology also develops voice authentication software. |
Sakhr
FreeZone, Nasr City, PO Box 5189, Cairo 11771 Egypt
| Phone | | +20 2 274 9929 |
| Fax | | +20 2 274 0055 |
| Internet | | http://www.sakhr.com |
| E-mail | | int_sales [at] sakhr.com |
Sakhr develops SR software for telephony applications.
| Product | Sakhr SR |
| Languages supported | Arabic, Egyptian |
| Availability | Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA |
| Note | Sakhr also develops text to speech software. |
Sakrament
Vostochnaja St.131, 220113, Minsk, Belarus
Sakrament develops SR software handheld devices, device control and telephony and automotive applications.
| Products | Sakrament ASR Engine and Sakrament Speech Box |
| Languages supported | Russian |
| Availability | Republic of Belarus, Russia, other CIS countries and Baltic States |
| Note | Sakrament also develops text to speech software. |
SaySo
SaySo, formerly of North Sydney, NSW, Australia, is no longer in business. Its intellectual property was acquired by Pyxis which is also no longer in business, and its intellectual property was acquired by the Kaz Group. The Kaz Group was acquired by Telstra in 2004 and onsold to Fujitsu in 2009. Along the way, the Speech(fx) product has been discontinued.
ScanSoft
In 2005, ScanSoft acquired Nuance, and subsequently renamed itself, Nuance Communications.
Sensory
1991 Russell Avenue Santa Clara, Calif 95054-2035 USA
Sensory develops SR software for embedded applications.
| Product | FluentSoft |
| Languages supported | English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Mexican Spanish and Castilian Spanish |
| Availability | USA, Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, China, Switzerland, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, South Africa, Singapore, Taiwan, UK |
| Note | Sensory also develops text to speech and voice authentication software. |
SER Solutions
SER Solutions, formerly of Dulles, Vir USA, is no longer in business.
Sestek
ITÜ Ayazaga Kampüsü ARI-1 Teknokent Binasi 34469 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
Sestek develops SR software for telephony and PC applications and mobile devices.
| Product | GVZ-SR 3.0 |
| Languages supported | American English and Turkish |
| Availability | Turkey and the USA |
| Note | Sestek also develops text to speech and voice authentication software. |
Siemens AG
The speech processing unit of Siemens was acquired by Svox in 2009. Svox was, in turn, acquired by Nuance in 2011.
Simmortel Voice Technologies
SIIC, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India
Simmortel develops SR software for telephony applications and mobile devices.
| Product | Simmortel ASR Engine |
| Languages supported | Bangla, American English, British English, Indian English, French, Hindi, Spanish, Tamil |
| Availability | Worldwide, via the Internet |
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SimonSays Voice Technologies
2609-35 Mariner Terrace, Toronto, Ontario M5V 3V9 Canada
SimonSays develops SR software for speech-mining applications.
| Product | SimonSays STT engine |
| Languages supported | Language independent |
| Availability | Canada, USA |
Speech Technology Center
4 Krasutskogo, St. Petersburg, 196084, Russia
STC (WP 641), PO Box 109, Lappeenranta SF-53101, Finland
The Speech Technology Center develops SR software for telephony applications and keyword spotting software.
SpeechWorkers Technologies S.A.E.
Mohandeseen Towers #3, Nile Cornish, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt
SpeechWorkers Technologies develops SR software for use, with its TTS software, in personal assistant type applications.
| Product | SAMA |
| Languages supported | Arabic |
| Availability | Egypt |
| Note | SpeechWorkers Technologies also develops text to speech software. |
Speechworks
Speechworks was acquired in 2003 by Scansoft which subsequently acquired Nuance in 2005 and renamed itself Nuance Communications.
Speereo Software R & D Center
118 Morisa Toreza Prospekt, The Business Center, 2nd floor St. Petersburg 194214 Russia
| Phone | | +7 812 327 5343 |
| Fax | | +7 812 327 4455 |
| Internet | | http://www.peterlink.ru (Russian only) |
| E-mail | | info [at] peterlink.ru |
Speereo develops SR software for PCs and Pocket PCs.
| Languages supported | English |
| Availability | Worldwide, via the Internet |
SpeechSwitch
iVoice had spun off its speech recognition software division as SpeechSwitch in 2004, then reincorporated SpeechSwitch back into iVoice in 2011.
Sprex
1210 NE 124th Street Seattle, Wash 98125 USA
Sprex develops SR software for handheld and other PDA devices.
| Product | ANSR |
| Languages supported | American English, British English, German, Spanish, and Japanese |
| Availability | USA |
| Note | Sprex also develops text to speech software. |
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, Calif 94025-3493 USA
SRI develops SR software for embedded educational and language learnign products.
| Product | Decipher, EduSpeak, DynaSpeak |
| Languages supported | Arabic, American English, Filipino, Mandarin and Pashto |
| Availability | USA, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates |
Svox AG
SVOX, formerly of Zurich, Switzerland, was acquired by Nuance in 2011.
Sympalog Voice Solutions
Karl-Zucker-Str. 10 D-91052 Erlangen Germany
Sympalog develops SR software for IVR systems.
| Product | SymRec |
| Languages supported | German |
| Availability | Germany |
| Note | Sympalog also develops voice authentication software. |
Syntellect
2095 W. Pinnacle Peak Road, Suite 110, Phoenix, Ariz 85027 USA
Syntellect develops SR software for use within its own Syntellect Communications Portal IVR system.
| Languages supported | Danish, Dutch, British English, American English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish |
| Availability | the USA and the UK |
| Note | Syntellect also develops voice authentication software. |
Syrinx
Syrinx, formerly of North Sydney, NSW, Australia, was renamed SaySo which is no longer in business. Its intellectual property was acquired by Pyxis which is also no longer in business, and its intellectual property was acquired by the Kaz Group. The Kaz Group was acquired by Telstra in 2004 and onsold to Fujitsu in 2009. Along the way, the Speech(fx) product has been discontinued.
Technische Universitaet Dortmund
D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
| Phone | | +49 231 755 4645 |
| Fax | | +49 231 755 4655 |
| Internet | | http://www.is.irf.de |
| E-mail | | tploetz [at] users.sourceforge.net |
| | gernot_fink [at] users.sourceforge.net |
Technische Universitaet Dortmund has developed an SR development toolkit that has been used for automobile, information retrieval systems and appointment scheduling applications.
| Product | ESMERALDA |
| Languages supported | English and German |
| Availability | Worldwide, via the Internet |
Telisma
9 rue Blaise Pascal, 22300 Lannion France
Telisma develops SR software for IVR systems, specialising in telco voice mail systems.
| Product | teliSpeech Suite |
| Languages supported | Bengali, Dutch, American English, British English, Indian English, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Polish, Punjabi, Castilian Spanish, Catalan Spanish, Tamil, Telugu and Thai |
| Availability | France, Colombia, Brazil, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, USA |
TEMIC
In 2002, TEMIC was acquired by Continental Automotive Systems which no longer develops speech recognition technology.
Toshiba
1-1, Shibaura 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8001, Japan
Toshiba develops SR software for embedded applications.
| Languages supported | American English, British English, Japanese and Mandarin |
| Availability | Unable to disclose |
| Note | Toshiba also develops text to speech software. |
20/20 Speech Ltd.
20/20 Speech has renamed itself Aurix
Grupo de Tecnologia del Habla. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Grupo de Tecnologia del Habla. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid no longer develops speech recognition technology but continues to develop text to speech software.
Unveil
Unveil was acquired by Microsoft in 2005.
Vecsys
3, rue de la Terre de Feu 91952 Courtaboeuf Cedex, France
| Phone | | +33 1 6929 8787 |
| Fax | | +33 1 6907 5858 |
| Internet | | http://www.vecsys.fr (French only) |
| E-mail | | vecsys [at] vecsys.fr |
Vecsys develops SR software for IVR systems and embedded applications.
| Product | MediaSpeech |
| Languages supported | Arabic, British English, American English, French, German, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish |
| Availability | France |
VerbalTek
VerbalTek, formerly of San Jose, Calif, USA, is no longer in business.
VERBIO TECHNOLOGIES S.L.
C/ Pau Claris 128 4-1 - 08009 Barcelona Spain
VERBIO TECHNOLOGIES develops SR software for telephony circuit cards which it sells for use in IVR systems.
| Product | Verbio ASR |
| Languages supported | Basque, Catalan, American English, French, Galician, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Argentinean Spanish, Chilean Spanish, Colombian Spanish, European Spanish, Mexican Spanish and Venezuelan Spanish |
| Availability | Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Portugal and the USA |
| Note | VERBIO TECHNOLOGIES also develops text to speech and VoiceXML software. |
Vocalis
Vocalis was acquired by Netdecisions, the parent company of Fluency Voice Technology Ltd, in 2003. In 2008, Fluency Voice Technology was acquired by Syntellect.
Vocentric Corporation
Vocentric Corporation, formerly of Kirkland, Wash USA, is no longer in business.
Voice Control Systems
Voice Control Systems which was acquired in 1999 by Philips which in 2002 sold its speech recognition products to Scansoft which subsequently acquired Nuance in 2005 and renamed itself Nuance Communications.
Voice Signal Technologies
Voice Signal Technologies was acquired by Nuance Communications in 2007.
voiceINTERconnect
Ammonstrasse 35, D-01067 Dresden Germany
voiceINTERconnect develops SR software for embedded devices.
| Product | verbKEY v1.6 |
| Languages supported | American English, French, German, Italian, Mandarin and Spanish |
| Availability | Worldwide |
| Note | voiceINTERconnect also develops text to speech and echo cancellation software. |
Voiceware
10th. Fl. SamHwan Digital Venture Tower Seongsu-dong 2-ga, 15gil 52, Achasan-ro Seongdong-gu, Seoul, 133-120 Korea
Voiceware develops SR software for telephony applications and embedded devices.
Voxi
PO Box 16286 S-10325 Stockholm Sweden
| Phone | | +46 8 4539050 |
| Fax | | +46 8 4539001 |
| Internet | | http://www.voxi.com |
| E-mail | | information [at] voxi.com |
Voxi develops SR software for IVR systems.
| Product | Intelligent Speech Interfaces |
| Languages supported | English with Swedish in development |
| Availability | Sweden |
Voxware
168 Franklin Corner Rd., Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 USA
Voxware develops SR software for its logistics applications.
| Product | VoxStudio |
| Languages supported | English |
| Availability | USA and Europe |
Wildfire Communications
Wildfire Communications, formerly of Waltham, Mass USA, is no longer in business.
Wizzard Software
Wizzard Software no longer develops speech recognition software.
Yale Systems Inc.
Yale Systems, formerly of Indianapolis, Ind USA, is no longer in business.
Articles and Papers on Speech Recognition
Speech Recognition Overview e-Access February, 2001
Speech Recognition - Developing the User Interface presented to the IBC Conference Voice 2001 August 2001
Speech Recognition vs DTMF eAccess November 2001
Speech Recognition Xephon [UK] November 2001
Raising the Bar of User Interface Design presented to the IBC Conference Voice 2002 March 2002
Speech Recognition: Separating the Application from the Machine Infinity Quarterly, June 2002
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