Discovering this article “The next big thing in mobile is… voice?” from Micheal Lambert, we learn why voice is the real challenge for mobiles phone services today. We have take some elements as summary but the complete article is really good to read.

Today, texting and mobile applications have surpassed voice in popularity, arguably because of their dynamic and flexible nature. Sending photos to friends in real-time is a snap, as is using SMS to update our Twitter status. [...] This burgeoning app market has a limited lifespan, though. Size and device constraints will eventually throw up roadblocks to mobile innovation – meaning it might be time to reevaluate our reliance on keyboards and touch screens.[...]

Voice has primarily sat apart from mobile applications on handsets, being mostly limited to basic phone functionality. Voice calls and the way we use them have remained fairly static since their inception in 1876. The real changes have been in the device, rather than the communication medium itself. [...]

The next logical step would be for something to emerge that tied all voice apps together; a way for the average mobile user to access all of them at once without the hassle of memorizing seven different usernames or figuring out one more user interface.

‘Voice Web’ technology is starting to let users do just that.

By Michael Lambert
Senior Director of Marketing for Ditech Networks

Source: VentureBeat: The next big thing is voice?

According to opusresearch; Phone-based self-service has taken on new meaning as phones morph into multi-functional wireless devices and contact center functions are distributed throughout the globe. Conversational Access Technologies now involve asynchronous interaction among individuals using Web services over the phone lines. Adding the human touch to traditionally automated self-service activities gives companies the option to leverage existing staff and IT infrastructure or outsource operations to managed or hosted service providers.

By Dan Miller

This very interesting report includes a PDF summary to download.

Source: Foundations 2009: Voice Self-Service Meets Web 2.0

Valladolid, Spain 2009

The City hall of Avila will present at the Admira Congress its Voice Portal project, an innovative, effective phone self-service directed to improve the citizen care  using best of  bread voice communications interfaces and through Internet developed by AMBISER with the VXI* VoiceXML browser technology of I6NET.

Admira Congress, will show last Products and Services for the Innovation and Modernization of the Public administrations, and will take place from May 28 until May 30 in the Fair of Valladolid (Spain).

Link: http://www.ambiser.es/noticias/news/news_0001.html_1100912743.html

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Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Today the Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) announced their fourth annual student speech application contest sponsored by AT&T, Cepstral, I6Net, Loquendo, Microsoft, and Voxeo. Applications must involve speech input and/or output, but may be pure speech or multimodal. Cash and/or equipment prizes valued at over $1000 will be awarded to teams of student programmers who design and create applications judged to be robust, useful, creative, innovative, and user friendly.

The contest encourages students to develop applications using speech technologies such as automatic speech recognition and text to speech synthesis and to combine them with other modalities. This year, students may use any of a variety of platforms including AT&T Speech Mashups, Cepstral VoiceForge TTS service, CMU’s RavenClaw/Olympus, Google Android, I6NET VXI* VoiceXML browser, Loquendo VoxNauta Platform, Lumenvox Speech Platform, Opera, Voxeo Prophecy, and Voxeo Tropo.

Students anywhere in the world can submit their creative and innovative applications to be judged by speech application experts. The contest also provides a forum for students to show what they can do with the power of speech applications  For more information and the contest entry form, go to http://www.avios.org.

To participate with I6NET products got to:
http://www.i6net.com/welcome-to-avios-participants/

Spain, France – December 8th 2008. Today, we want to talk about MyVocal.com – a personalized mobile service for commuters. MyVocal allows immediate listening to any spoken word audio content (podcasts, travel guides, audio-books, user-generated content, any text converted into speech, etc.) by simply dialing the local phone number. MyVocal is featured with mobile and web portals helping in finding the content, managing playlist and favorites, adding new content to the library, sharing content with friends on Facebook and Twitter, etc.

By definition, MyVocal service works on any phone – audio is played on the voice portal powered by I6NET VoiceXML browser, so it works even on a fixed-line phone or VOIP provider (like Skype). All audio episodes on MyVocal are tagged with unique numeric IDs – users fetch these audio-articles by typing their DTMF codes. When user explores content from the mobile, the requested audio story is fetched automatically when user selects “Listen on MyVocal” link.

MyVocal is also a tool for partners such as publishers, operators or VAS providers. With simple web interface partner can customize and launch in few minutes their braded mobile portal and downloadable Java application with audio streaming. MyVocal will also help monetizing this content through premium subscriptions and mobile ads.

Visit http://www.myvocal.com on your computer or http://myvocal.mobi on your cellphone.

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The newest VXI* VoiceXML browser 3.1 beta ref. 2008-05-15 is now released!
This release is now for preproduction platforms and testing systems.

You can download this newest package inside our website for registered users.

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