NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MICHAEL COONEY ON TECHNOLOGY UPDATE 11/08/04 Today's focus: What's new in speech technology?
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Today's speech applications range from custom-built to ��pre-built * Links related to Technology Update * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Systems Special Report: Bridging the Gap; Enterprise ROI IT professionals today don't indulge in the latest-greatest technology for their own sake; instead they concentrate efforts on projects that are most likely to help achieve business goals. Read about the challenges and opportunities when IT starts 'bridging the gap' and directly contributes to enterprise ROI. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=87999 _______________________________________________________________ SECURTIY SUMMIT: CAN SECURITY BE A COMPETITIVE EDGE? Recently 23 prominent IT executives and academics gathered at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH for a daylong roundtable to address such questions. CIOs and VPs from some of the largest and most well-known companies in the US shared with peers their security fears, goals, frustrations and challenges. Find out more: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=87870 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: What's new in speech technology? By Michael Cooney When it comes to speech applications, deployment options range from the custom-built to the pre-built. It's different from in the past, when companies had little choice but to develop speech applications using a single vendor's proprietary platform and tools - aided in many cases by an army of consultants. That's the basic premise to our Special Focus this week. Our author ( <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) says that today's corporate buyers can sacrifice application customization and complexity in favor of configurable, packaged offerings, often geared to specific vertical markets. ScanSoft, for example, offers SpeechPaks tailored for healthcare and utility companies that combine design templates, standard call flows, dialog components and pre-recorded voice prompts. At the same time, outsourced services from vendors such as Tellme Networks and NetByTel are getting the attention of companies that want to avoid the capital expenditure required for traditional voice technologies deployed in-house. In addition, the advent of standards such as VoiceXML and the Microsoft-backed Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) is letting users develop applications that can be ported from one vendor's platform to another. Users are buying into the idea, analysts say. According to Gartner, 50% of voice application development will be based on platform-independent application development tools by year-end 2006. Taken together, these trends are driving up demand for voice-enabled technologies. According to Datamonitor, global voice business revenue totaled over $800 million in 2003 and is expected to hit $1 billion this year and $1.3 billion by the end of 2005. For more on this article see: <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/110804specialfocus.html> RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS New speech technologies making noise Network World, 03/22/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0322voice.html Microsoft sets Speech Server pricing IDG News Service, 03/24/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0324microsets.html Speech-tech enthusiasts speak up Network World Fusion, 09/15/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0915speechtek.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Michael Cooney Michael Cooney is an Associate News Editor. Aside from his news responsibilities, Cooney handles the Infrastructure and Enterprise Application sections of Network World. Cooney has been writing for Network World since 1992. 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