VoiceBox Technologies Announces Expanded European Language Support for Its Conversational Voice Search PlatformTM
Extended support for Dutch, British English, French, Italian, German and Spanish bolsters that for American English, Canadian French and Mexican Spanish
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BELLEVUE, Wash. - Jan. 7, 2008 - VoiceBox® Technologies Inc., the award-winning innovator of conversational voice search applications, today announced it will support expanded European languages in the first quarter of 2008. The new language support - for Dutch, British English, French, Italian, German and Spanish (DEFIGS) - adds to support for American English, Canadian French and Mexican Spanish.
Working with phonetic transcribers worldwide, the new DEFIGS capabilities boast robust pronunciation data garnered from native speakers. These extensive phonetic lexicons are a critical boon, and necessary for completing some of the highly complex tasks that VoiceBox is known for, including voice destination entry for navigation, local search, and points of interests (POI) and location-based address requests with city and street name support.
"We are ecstatic to offer VoiceBox’s powerful conversational solutions to European markets with native language support," said Brian Cassidy, managing director of VoiceBox in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). "And we are excited to explore all the potential ways we can apply our world-class phonetic data."
VoiceBox will first apply the DEFIGS capabilities to the ripe market of personal navigation devices (PNDs) in 2008, and will follow with capabilities for automotive telematic systems.
VoiceBox Technologies' conversational platform is based on advanced patent-pending technology that can determine context and intent from conversational speech and then dynamically accommodate a request based on the user's intent. Users are not required to memorize exact preset commands and can simply ask for what they want, even in noisy environments such as the automobile.
About VoiceBox Technologies
VoiceBox develops Conversational Voice Search software that lets people search, navigate and discover content and services simply by using natural, free-form language. Commitment to speech innovation drives the VoiceBox vision: to make conversational voice search the de facto intuitive interface that will give people anywhere-anytime access to what they need. Incorporated in 2001, the privately held company's patent-pending voice search processes are applied across telematics and infotainment, music and entertainment, navigation, mobile and VoIP markets. VoiceBox Technologies was the recipient of the Gartner Cool Vendor award for March 2007 as well as runner-up in Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Innovation Awards for software. For more information, please visit http://www.voicebox.com.
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