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by tj on April 1, 2004
Fluency Voice a UK based provider of voice recognition services raised $7.4 million. Jeez, voice recognition is really a technology that has never fulfilled expectations and everyone from IBM to Microsoft already distributes solutions with (unfortunately limited) use. But Fluence Voice seems to have found an interesting niche:
Fluency VoiceRunner� is an award-winning platform
for automating call centre services using configurable speech recognition
applications.
VoiceRunner� offers specific advantages for systems
integration partners and business customers, allowing them to rapidly
develop scalable speech recognition applications that reduce call centre
costs and enhance customer service:
- Pre-built Applications - Availability of ready-to-deploy
application suites supporting specific vertical industries, such as
travel, banking and local government - Highly Configurable - Low cost of ownership through
use of graphical drag-and-drop configuration and management tools, allowing
easy use by non-technical administrators - Flexible architecture - Interoperable with all main
speech engines, IVR platforms and gateways, providing clients with total
flexibility for future developments - Rapid Development - component-based approach and
availability of pre-built application component library allows faster
and more flexible development by existing programmers - Open Standards - Architecture designed to work across
standards such as VoiceXML, SALT, Java and .NET
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