Stuttgart/Paris, Feb 10th, 2006. EXCELSIS, one of the leading solution providers for speech portals and voice solutions worldwide and telisma, a leading European speech recognition technology provider have started a close cooperation. The aim of this collaboration is to make the undisputable advantages of speech portals available to an international clientele. telisma thereby brings its speech recognition technology and its experience from the French and European markets, whereas EXCELSIS adds its competence from more than 100 speech portal projects in all sectors to the partnership. The results are high performance speech applications of the latest generation such as natural speaking timetable information systems that combine the latest technology with a wide spectrum of functionality.
Telisma is one of the most important providers of speech recognition technology in Europe and the leader in speech recognition for the French language. Telisma’s proven technology is especially suited for very large systems that can serve millions of users.
"With telisma, we have a strong partner by our side for the French and European markets. This combined with our software competence as well as our ability to develop a voice portal project together with experts at all development stages – from conception, dialogue design and studio recordings to the tuning and operation of the speech application – makes us one of the leading voice portal suppliers in Europe." says Christian Sauter CEO of EXCELSIS. The French market is increasingly interesting for EXCELSIS. The company has already gained experience with French language applications through Swiss projects. In Luxembourg, EXCELSIS disposes of a series of clients who, besides French, also require German and Letzebuergesch – the Luxembourgian dialect.
Laurent Balaine CEO of telisma adds: "Together EXCELSIS and telisma are making it much safer and easier for a company to launch voice portals. Indeed, thanks to this partnership, they can deploy high quality voice portals in record times. Our combined know-how and experiences in managing major speech projects from conception to run-out in Europe, our common focus on dialogues fluency and customer’s satisfaction are key factors in the success of such services. We’re very pleased to collaborate with such an outstanding partner in Europe and in particular in the German speaking market, where telisma intends to develop its presence."
