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The following list includes vendors that offer software development kits and speech recognition engines.
BeVocal Inc. is a provider of managed VoiceXML services and offers the free Caf' VoiceXML development kit.
BrightArrow Technologies Inc. of Redmond, Wash., 425-558-2100,
www.brightarrow.com, markets speech recognition telephony applications.
Command Corporation Inc. of Alpharetta, Ga., 770-360-1230,
www.commandcorp.com, sells the In Cube voice recognition engine and applications for a variety of platforms including Microsoft Windows 3.1. In Cube has a very small footprint.
LocusDialog Speech Technology Solutions of Montreal, 512-954-3804,
www.locusdialog.com, produces speech telephony products.
Marine Acoustics Inc. of Annapolis, Md., 410-626-9850,
www.voxtec.com, sells VoxTec, a speaker-independent, large-vocabulary speech recognition application for all high-end personal digital assistants. The company produces a ruggedized PDA for the Pentagon.
Microsoft Corp., 425-882-8080,
www.microsoft.com, offers .Net Speech SDK, which adds speech tools to the Microsoft .Net development environment.
NeuVoice Inc. of Teddington, England, 44-20-8943-4392,
www.neuvoice.com, has developed NeuVoice VR1, a powerful voice recognition system for embedded and mobile applications.
Nortel Networks Ltd. of Brampton, Ontario, 903-863-0000,
www.nortelnetworks.com, provides various telephony and server-based speech recognition development products.
Philips Electronics North America Corp. of New York, 800-326-6586,
www.speech.be.philips.com, develops speech telephony and IT speech recognition and dictation systems, software development kits, and markets dictation hardware.
ScanSoft Inc. sells a fleet of developer tools for its products.
SpeechWorks International Inc. of Boston, 617-428-4444,
www.speechworks.com, offers SpeechSecure, a Biometric speaker verification system, and OpenSpeech Recognizer, a telephony recognition engine optimized for VoiceXML.