HeyAnita Announces FreeSpeech Gateway Server 3.0

LOS ANGELES - HeyAnita Inc., a voice software company, announced the general availability of its FreeSpeech Gateway Server, Version 3.0. This product represents a milestone in the voice technology space, providing telecommunication service providers and enterprise customers with flexibility in the deployment of voice-enabled solutions. HeyAnita's FreeSpeech Gateway Server 3.0 is an integrated, media server software solution that includes support for most leading operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, Linux and HP-UX. This version of the FreeSpeech Gateway Server enables carriers and enterprise customers to deploy voice applications without being tied to a specific standard, speech engine software, telephony board hardware or operating system. The FreeSpeech Gateway Server offers a complete standards-neutral environment that includes HeyAnita's FreeSpeech Platform, FreeSpeech Voice Browser and FreeSpeech Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OA&M) suite. In addition to U.S. English, HeyAnita's Gateway Server 3.0 will work with any international language that is supported by the underlying automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) software vendor. "HeyAnita's FreeSpeech Gateway Server provides a level of flexibility that is completely unique in the voice space. Today's market is demanding this type of multi-vendor agility," says Mark Plakias, vice president of the Kelsey Group. "High performance solutions like the FreeSpeech Gateway Server enable companies to leverage existing infrastructure while employing voice applications that drive revenue, enhance customer relations, improve employee efficiency and extend the functionality of existing data applications." "Our FreeSpeech Gateway Server software is a carrier-grade solution, providing flexibility, scalability and reliability to companies worldwide," says Sanjeev Kuwadekar, CEO and co-founder of HeyAnita. "It empowers companies to utilize in-house or third-party voice applications, including those developed by HeyAnita, allowing them to architect and deploy an overall solution that best fits their needs. The FreeSpeech Gateway Server's ability to support both VoiceXML and SALT on all the leading operating systems, such as Windows 2000, Solaris, Linux and HP-UX, is unique in the voice space and further differentiates HeyAnita's position as the leading provider of software solutions in the voice technology industry."