Speech Technology eWeekly - June 29, 2016

Speech Technology News

Interactions Launches Curo Speech

Curo Speech is a platform for automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech building on AT&T's Watson technology.

Toshiba's UCedge Softphone Brings Unified Communications to Mac OS X

New built-in UCedge softphone for Mac computers functions as an office extension.

Five9 Partners with Westcon-Comstor

The partnership will allow Five9's contact center solutions to be available to a wider breadth of customers.

Convergys Partners with Telia Norge for Networked IVR

The Norwegian telecommunications company will offer Convergys' networked voice and video services in Northern Europe.

Acapela Adds Norwegian Children's TTS Voices

Emilie and Elias join Acapela's stable of children's voices, which now includes 18 options.

Sensory Releases New TrulyHandsFree SDK

TrulyHandsfree enables developers to add speech triggers and commands into apps with fewer than 20 lines of code.

ABI Expects Regular Voice Users to Reach 1 Billion by 2021

Voice technology use is expected to grow by 80 percent per year through 2021.