“SpeechWorks International, Inc., the U.S. market leader in the
telephony-based speech technology industry, today announced the
Open Speech Web, a series of initiatives to bring together
speech services in a manner that mirrors the evolution of the World
Wide Web. The Open Speech Web – a network of interconnected speech
services – combines technologies and products that will allow
consumers to `speech-surf’ or to connect to any speech-enabled
application, simply by using spoken commands and the nearest
phone.”
“To help make the Open Speech Web a reality, SpeechWorks
announced two new products, currently in beta, that will be made
available as open source code to application developers: the
SpeechWorks Speech Browser and SpeechLinks(TM). Both products are
intended to facilitate the internetworking of speech applications
on the Open Speech Web. SpeechWorks also announced two new
partnerships to support the development and distribution of the new
products: one with the Open Source Speech Initiative at Carnegie
Mellon University and the other with Net2Phone, (see related
release, today June 30, 2000), a leading provider of voice-enhanced
Internet communications services to individuals and businesses
worldwide.”
“We first outlined the vision of speech portals and speech links
at Conversations ’99, our user conference, last fall,” said Steve
Chambers, vice president of worldwide marketing, SpeechWorks. “By
delivering SpeechLinks and the Speech Browser as open source code
to the marketplace, we’re tapping the power of the software
development community to speed the build-out of the Open Speech
Web.”