Microsoft goes mainstream with speech tech
Yahoo | at | by Mike
Microsoft and Intervoice, a provider of converged voice and data applications, have partnered to promote Microsoft's version of open standards-based speech applications. The strategic alliance calls for cooperation on tech development, as well as sales and marketing, for the upcoming Microsoft .NET Speech platform, a multimodal infrastructure that is based on Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) and designed for multiple clients, such as PCs, telephones, PDAs and next-generation laptops.
The agreement calls for Intervoice to deliver and deploy SALT, ASP.NET and Microsoft .NET Speech platform-based applications, as well as to integrate its telephony call management technologies with the Microsoft .NET Speech platform and port its packaged and vertical applications to SALT. The companies said the partnership will focus heavily on developing ASP.NET and SALT-based speech applications for enterprise customers that use or could benefit from IVR technology.