Recent Developments

• Speech-enabled solutions on the road: NIST award supports a high-profile research project.
• Recent Developments in Speech-Technology Applications Continue to Expand
• Consolidation in the speech-technology industry becomes evident.
• Nuance, Speechworks, and Scansoft Report Mixed Results for 2002
• DARPA's Ears Program Promises Further Advances in Speech Technology
• Scansoft Becomes a Speech-Technology Powerhouse
• BeVocal Outsources Voice Hosting
• General Magic Ceases Operations

Updates

Importance of the Technology

The Technology in Brief

• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Text-to-Speech Conversion
• Voice Biometrics
• Speech-to-Text Conversion or Dictation
• Speech-to-Speech Translation
• Speech Mining

Commercial Development Parameters

• General Constraints
• Demand Factors
• Synergistic Technologies
• Required Resources
• Regulatory Factors
• Competing Technologies

Areas to Monitor

• Context Awareness
• Metadata Extraction
• Multimodal Interfaces
• Natural Language
• Advances In Noise Cancellation and Signal-to-Noise Ratio
• Personal Speech Applications
• Reliability and Accuracy
• Semiconductor-Chip Development for Speech Technology
• Speech Awareness
• Speech-to-Speech Translation
• Standards
• Wild Card

Implications of Commercialization

• Advances in Speech-Recognition Reliability
• Server-Based Solutions
• Mobile and Embedded Solutions
• Emerging Applications and Markets

Market Development

Applications

• Application Development
• Desktop Applications
• Embedded Solutions
• Interactive Voice Response
• Call-Center Applications
• Directory-Assistance Applications
• Multimodal Interfaces
• Security
• Specialized Applications
• Speech Mining
• Unified Messaging
• Voice Hosting
• Voice Portals
• Other Applications

Players