Vocollect Unveils Next Generation Vocollect Voice Solution

Vocollect, a provider of voice-centric solutions for mobile workers, today introduced its new flagship voice-centric solution set.

The Next Generation Vocollect Voice Solution suite is composed of two broad new product sets, the Vocollect Voice Software Suite and the Premium Wearable Voice Solution.

The Vocollect Voice Software Suite provides advanced host interface and voice workflow logic to most warehouse management systems (WMS) and is based on VoiceArtisan, VoiceLink, VoiceDirect, and VoiceApplication products. Customers can voice-enable their WMS-based operations via real-time direct interfaces, middleware, or third-party middleware. The new suite is based on industry standards for application design, development and testing. It builds on a range of out-of-box tasks, such as selection, put-to-store, replenishment, put-away, loading, cycle-counting, inventory control, and receiving.

The Premium Wearable Industrial Solution, based on the new Talkman A500 and VoiceCatalyst client software, provides speech recognition performance in industrial environments. The Talkman A500 supports third-party peripherals, such as ring scanners, printers, displays, and RFID readers, so mobile workers can add the functions they need, when needed, per workflow. Finally, Vocollect’s Premium Wearable Voice Solution includes advance operations status and statistics capabilities.

Many WMS companies have already endorsed this new platform and are planning to begin offering it this year as part of their total customer solution portfolio. Vocollect’s other partners, including its value-added resellers and systems integrators, already are selling solutions incorporating the new platform. Vocollect is also working with a wide range of third-party device partners to ensure that the next-generation software, including the VoiceCatalyst client, will be available on multiple devices starting later this year.

The Next Generation Vocollect Voice Solution, featuring the Vocollect Voice Software Suite and the Premium Wearable Voice Solution, complements Vocollect’s current portfolio. There are no plans to replace or end-of-life current Vocollect products. The new solution set is now commercially available in the United States, Canada, EMEA, Australia and New Zealand. It will be available in Latin America, Japan, Korea, and select APAC countries later this year.

“Last spring Vocollect announced a bold vision for the voice-centric warehouse and the solutions necessary to enable that vision,” said Joe Pajer, president and CEO of Vocollect. “With our Next Generation Vocollect Voice Solution set, that vision is more real than ever before. This will truly change how customers think about improving operations performance, addressing business challenges and managing their DCs and warehouses.”

“Working with our partner Speech Interface Design, we recently deployed Vocollect’s next-generation solution to improve accuracy with the kitting process in one of our assembly lines. In this pilot implementation, we reduced errors by more than 50 percent and started seeing results in less than one month,” said Chad Resler, senior manufacturing engineer and valuestream leader for power panels at Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management.

“Based on these results, we have implemented voice for a second product line for picking and replenishment, and will be deploying voice on a third product line for put-away and picking,” said Resler. “Vocollect’s next generation voice solution has been a very attractive means for improving our operational performance."