Paris, FRANCE – June 3rd 2008: NuSuara & telisma collaborate to co-develop languages that can be used with the teliSpeech™ Recognizer for the South East Asian markets. Today, they are pleased to announce the availability of Thaï and Malay languages, the first of many to come…
Telisma, an International leader in the field of speech processing solutions for mass market applications, is the preferred partner of large Enterprises. Its Malaysian partner, NuSuara, is a pioneer in the sector of technologies and applications based on speech recognition in South East Asia specialising in the SME and telecom markets. Together they have shared their tools and ‘savoir-faire’ for the benefit of the speech community.
Telisma and NuSuara have proven telisma’s unique collaborative approach to the design and development of industrial speech processing solutions, based on the open Eclipse™ development environment. Both the Thaï and Malay languages have been developed by Nusuara using the teliSpeech Language Development Kit (LDK) and are now available using the teliSpeech Recognizer, telisma’s Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) software.
“Keeping in line with telisma’s open strategy, we approached Nusuara to start the talks of collaboration. Conscious of our unrivalled joint expertise in the development of speech technologies and solutions in South East Asia this alliance will help accelerate the availability of ASR in more Asian countries.” stated Eric Le Flour, co-Founder and VP, Strategy and Business Development, telisma.
NuSuara CEO, Dato’ Ramli Abbas explained that this latest joint venture is aligned with the Company’s strategy to work closely with leading technology providers to conceptualise and develop innovative technologies and tools to enable effective human centric computer interactions.
“We are confident the open collaboration with telisma on the technical and commercial levels, combined with our expertise, enables us to offer leading edge speech processing solutions that best meets the needs of Asian enterprises and supports their growth. The jointly developed product will also further reinforce NuSuara as a leading provider of speech technologies in the region,” said Dato’ Ramli.
Kenneth Chin, VP, Solutions & Services, NuSuara, echoed the business advantages to the Company as a result of this latest alliance. “This joint venture and the resulting best-of-the-breed solution open doors for NuSuara in new markets and further enhance our business presence. This collaboration with telisma also works to our advantage when bidding with global players in future," explained Kenneth.
Frédéric Soufflet, Chief Technology Officer, telisma, added “telisma’s ambition is to develop a broad community of partners relating to speech processing technology, both in terms of widening its geography and extending the range of applications". “We have chosen to make our technologies available to the general public. Today, we believe the most suitable method for this is via a mass diffusion through the Eclipse™ environment community. We openly welcome other new partners to join us to develop more solutions with our open source software”.
More information on the teliSpeech Studio is available from telisma's website: http://www.telisma.com/teliSpeech_Studio.pdf
About telisma
Telisma is a dominant player in the speech technologies. Telisma is an international leader in the domain of ‘network speech’, and collaborates with both R&D and industrial partners by leveraging the Eclipse™ open software development framework.
About Nusuara
Founded in 2002, NuSuara is a pioneer player in the sector of voice activated solution and speech platform research and development in South East Asia. The Company provides multi-lingual speech solution, with more than 60 commercial deployments in South East Asia.
NuSuara is backed by Malaysia Venture Capital Management Bhd (Mavcap), a subsidiary of the Minister of Finance Inc., Malaysia. In 2003 NuSuara achieved the Malaysian Super Corridor (MSC) status.
For more information, please contact:
Felicity Martin
Marketing Manager, telisma
Tel: +33 156 53 64 34
Email: fmartin@telisma.com
Kenneth Chin
VP, Solutions & Services, NuSuara
Tel: +60 (16) 201 2993
Email: kchin@nusuara.com
