 Inference Partners with US Voice Hosting Company
DemandVoice Hosts Sophisticated Full Life-Cycle Natural Language Application Development Tools
New York, SpeechTEK East -August 8, 2006 -
Specialist voice recognition tools and solution provider, Inference Communications, announced
today that they will partner with US hosting provider, DemandVoice to offer their award winning
tools to the US and global markets.
DemandVoice, based in Georgia, offers their customers a fully hosted and supported infrastructure
for the delivery of voice applications. Their standards-based platform supports voice recognition
and text-to-speech services that are secure and scalable. In the market today, many developers and
customers see hosted services as a way to minimize risk and preserve capital when implementing voice solutions.
DemandVoice will offer the Inference Talkback and Inference Tuner products to their community of developers
via a timed subscription model from their web site. Customers of Inference tools will then have the option
of deploying solutions developed directly onto the DemandVoice infrastructure. ‘By offering developers
access to the highest quality speech solutions and the best development tools, we further our mission of
providing a “headache free” environment for deploying and hosting voice applications’ said Mark Rayburn,
CEO of DemandVoice. ‘Inference’s technology is allowing us to lower the barrier to entry for companies
seeking the power of sophisticated speech recognition.’
The products offered via this partnership, Inference Talkback and Inference Tuner, were recognized with
the award for the ‘Best Natural Language Development Tools’ at SpeechTEK West in San Francisco in January 2006.
Inference Talkback has gained international recognition for the simplicity and speed with which it allows
customers to develop and maintain sophisticated natural language solutions, for the way in which it creates
complex grammar sets from a few sample utterances, and for its elimination of the need for complex coding
to create and maintain voice solutions across many platforms and languages.
Inference Tuner, which was launched at SpeechTEK West in 2006, has found a following with voice application
developers looking to create and maintain complex and accurate voice grammars using simple input and without
the need for programming.
Creating tools for the development of highly effective speech solutions using artificial intelligence is a
process that Inference Communications has been refining for many years and addresses a demand in the market
place for tools that simplify and speed up the process of solution development through automation, while at
the same time increasing the range of transactions that may be voice enabled through the sophistication of natural language.
“Inference believes this partnership with DemandVoice brings together the best of breed in terms of voice
solution components and will provide the market with a low risk opportunity to deploy and use high quality
speech solutions. We believe this model will open up the market for the use of voice as a channel for self service’,
said Kirsty McCarthy, the VP of Sales and Marketing for Inference Communications.
About DemandVoice, LLC
DemandVoice LLC, headquartered in Metro Atlanta, is a voice hosting company specializing in voice
platform operations. Our standards-based, voice application hosting network integrates industry-leading
VoiceXML, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Text-to-Speech/Speech Synthesis (TTS) servers to provide
customers and partners with on-demand capacity for speech-enabled and touch-tone IVR applications.
DemandVoice houses its fully redundant platforms in quality-certified, geographically dispersed,
carrier-neutral facilities designed for security, reliability, and high throughput. If you want the
capacity to be heard, but not the large capital expenditures, delays, and risks of integrating and
deploying voice hosting infrastructure then accelerate your time-to-market with DemandVoice's state-of-the-art
global network.
For more information please contact public relations for DemandVoice LLC, Linda Healan,
lhealan@healanpr.com, 1-678-889-8057 or visit www.demandvoice.com
About Inference Communications
Inference Communications Pty Ltd is a private company with its head office in Melbourne, Australia. The company
was established in 2004 with the express objective of making speech recognition more affordable to the general market.
For more information, please contact Kirsty McCarthy on +61 400 049 959, email kirsty.mccarthy@inferencecommunications.com,
or visit www.inferencecommunications.com
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