Norwegian company Opera is adding IBM speech-recognition technology to its free browser software. Opera, which raised about $18 million in an initial public offering earlier this month, said it is aiming the standardized ViaVoice speech technology from IBM at enterprise customers and developers initially. Although we are nearing the finalization of the Voice XML 2.0 standard — and Opera will have competition from Microsoft with its Speech Application Language Tag technology — Gartner research vice president Martin Reynolds said the voice technology is still out of shout’s reach.
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Big Blue Stars in Opera Voice-Recognition Technology
Posted by: Jay Lyman March 23, 2004 09:21 AMNorwegian company Opera is adding IBM speech-recognition technology to its free browser software. Opera, which raised about $18 million in an initial public offering earlier this month, said it is aiming the standardized ViaVoice speech technology from IBM at enterprise customers and developers initially. Although we are nearing the finalization of the Voice XML 2.0 standard — and Opera will have competition from Microsoft with its Speech Application Language Tag technology — Gartner research vice president Martin Reynolds said the voice technology is still out of shout’s reach.