Announcing a Major
Report on
Voice and Speech Processing
February 1998
Voice technology has been a field of research for more then 20 years. In the last ten years, a steady stream of increasingly useful technology has been demonstrated and has made its way into specialized markets, but voice has never quite been ready to take its place as a mainstream technology.
Advances in technology, decreasing platform requirements, better understanding of customer needs and expectations, and pricing designed to entice individual consumers to a mass market are all about to conspire to make many types of voice processing mainstream.
In this report:
- We’ll look at the various types of voice processing technology available today and peering over the next few technology horizons.
- We’ll also look at related technologies such as natural language processing, which may be needed to make voice meet user expectations and to build robust and valuable applications.
- We’ll meet the voice processing vendors, across a broad spectrum of technologies and applications, and consider their product offerings. We’ll provide not only product comparisons, but also insight into their differing strategies and plans.
- We’ll consider the use of voice as an interface technology for a range of devices and applications and we’ll present the results of interviews with vendors of such products and their plans for voice enabling.
- We’ll discuss the results of interviews with customers about their current usage of voice technologies and their future plans.
- We’ll use the data from voice vendors, systems and application developers, customers, and visionaries to predict the future of the voice marketplace.
Visit our website at http://www.wohl.com/voiceout.htm for an outline of the Voice Processing White Paper research now in progress and for ordering information or call Wohl Associates at 610-667-4842 or email us at opinions@wohl.com.
If you’re a new voice processing vendor please give us a call to be sure we include you in our research.
NOTE: This white paper is the first of a new series. Our next white paper (already planned in outline form) is on Intranet software. Be sure to contact us if you want to be interviewed or if you'd like to see an outline of the proposed paper.
And we've decided that it's unlikely that a single white paper will do the component market justice, so we intend to revisit this market again; market dynamics and your interest will tell us whether the interval should be one year or sooner.
Amy D. Wohl
Voice and Speech Processing -- Outline
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