Paris, Feb 10th 2006 – Voxpilot, a leading provider of VoiceXML technology and telisma, European leader in speech recognition technologies announce that they just signed a VAR agreement. As a result, telisma’s telisSpeech is now available on Voxpilot Open Media Platform
Speech enabling audio-video applications
Voxpilot Open Media Platform (OMP) is a distributed VoiceXML-based media processing platform designed to enable rapid delivery of next generation interactive services on a single platform. This innovative platform has been engineered from the very start to support video-based telephony applications. Voxpilot’s OMP 2.5, together with telisma’s teliSpeech 1.2, enables the delivery of new and exciting applications combining speech and video in today’s 3G network market.
Gilles Meyer from Voxpilot explains: "VoiceXML is ideally suited to deliver services combining the power of video interactivity and the user-friendliness of speech command. The combination of rich audio and video capabilities, offered through a single Web-based service creation approach such as VoiceXML, results in an exceptionally powerful multimedia service delivery option that goes far beyond what has been available up until now."
Laurent Balaine, telisma’s CEO further comments: "The ability to provide innovative speech enabled services will give operators and content providers a great competitive edge! Both Voxpilot OMP and teliSpeech have proven through many successful deployments of mass market telephone services the carrier-grade qualities of their respective technologies, as well as their robustness and scalability. This makes for an attractive solution for operators and enterprises wishing to launch the innovative services that will help them increase customers satisfaction".
Voice enabled video services are especially attractive for applications that require searching through specific content, bypassing what would have required otherwise a complex menu structure. For examples browsing through music clips or movie trailers is greatly enhanced using speech-enabled capabilities.
Opening up the speech services deployment to the Linux community
Sharing a common vision of standards as being the key to the future of speech services, Voxpilot has released a 100% standard telephony platform integrating telisma’s technology that will help further democratise speech services.
The Voxpilot Open Media Platform (OMP) 2.5 is open to all current standards. Not being dependent upon proprietary systems and calling upon widely known developing languages, it is accessible to almost anyone… including members of the fast growing Linux community.
Voxpilot selected telisma as speech recognition partner for its flagship telephony platform not only for the intrinsic qualities of its carrier grade technology, but also for its standards-oriented vision and its dominant European position in the speech recognition sector. Thanks to full standard compliances (including MRCP) on both sides, the integration of teliSpeech on Voxpilot OMP 2.5 ran smoothly and quickly.
