Its Not Rumor (now) : Tellme + Microsoft merged...!

There were many rumours about TellMe.

http://blog.jeffhaynie.us/voice-hosting-ma-activity.html
(this is very interesting blog,)


http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6166481.html
(I read this link from spkydog's blog.!)(www.spkydog.blogspot.com)


(Google & Tellme Rumor on spkydog's blog + history of other such acquisitions)http://spkydog.blogspot.com/2006/06/speechvoicexml-merger-mania-wheres.html



Finally this is not now rumor about Tellme and Microsoft...here is a link,
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/mar07/03-14PowerOfSpeechPR.mspx

Some Interesting blog after the announcement

http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2007/03/14/what-it-feels-like-to-merge-with-microsoft.aspx
(secret Sunday afternoon meetings .!)


http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2007/03/14/tellme-wow.aspx



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in my previous posts (Feb-15-2007) I posted link to forbes.com
having article "The Future of Phone and Web Convergence" by TellMe's Mike, and today on Mar-15-2007 I am again posting this gr8 news about Tellme+MSFT !

http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/12/yahoo-google-microsoft-ent-tech-cx_kw_0212wharton.html?partner=telecom_newsletter

}



--Raxit Sheth

VoiceXml Solution Directory

Today the "VoiceXml Solutions Directory" launched by VoiceXml Forum

Currently the Directory is organized in category of (currently this type of search is very frequent)

Products
=Platforms (Both Certified platform as well as not-certified with which one is certified and which are not)
=Re-Usable Modules
=Applications

Services
=VUI Design
=System Integration
=Hosted Vxml Services


you may interested to visit the Directory
http://www.vxmldirectory.com/

here is the press release
http://www.voicexml.org/press/press_releases.asp?item_id=102


You may find the link to VoiceXml Directory in Right hand side of this Page,

--Raxit Sheth

interesting article/discussion with Tellme's Mike McCue on

- personalized experience,
- good interface,
- importance of speech recognition Vs dtmf-only menu
- business model who benefit to service provider, service consumer and host of voice portal.
- importance of business model and strategy of tellme as well other players,competitors
- why voice-access to site is still (more) costly (compared to normal web-access) ?
- some more stuff on future voice-web.

article's titled as "The Future of Phone and Web Convergence"



link :
http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/12/yahoo-google-microsoft-ent-tech-cx_kw_0212wharton.html?partner=telecom_newsletter




--Raxit

SSMl Workshop Photo...!

W3C's SSML-Workshop-3 pics of Hyderabad (Thanks to Paolo for sharing the Photo)

--Raxit Sheth

iiit-Hyderabad.

Hi All,

I just came from hyderabad before few hours, We were having 'very tight schedule' on both days (13-14) and No more time to meet friends and all, so regreting if i didn't meet you.

mostly we were at IIIT International Institute of Information Technology (www.iiit.ac.in), and
come to know that IJCAI-07 ( www.ijcai-07.org) was hosted by IIIT and completed on just 12th Jan 2007, as ijcai is all about AI (including topic about speech/mm and related future technologies) , we also got 2 CD's (from iiit-h with help of Prof. Bagga) having very good (although i have to accept that I didn't understand some stuff on machine learning and some other complex algos, Its may be out of scope, but few of my frnds are in ML and related stuff)

-raxit

SSML Workshop 3 Photoes

Hi all,

Its nice time to meets some of the 'who is who' of Speech and Voice Technologies and some of W3C's member and staffs.

here is Photos of W3C's SSML 3 workshop Posted by Richard Ishida.

(Link edited Ohhh..Spelling mistake of flickr...Thanks richard for prompting earliest.)


--Raxit Sheth

Patent by AT&T Research

chkout below links,
related to TTS,ASR and DialogMgmt system.

http://www.research.att.com/viewPatent.cfm?Number=7139715
http://www.research.att.com/viewPatent.cfm?Number=7139717

--raxit