Founders

Contributors & Adopters

Accenture
Aculab PLC
Advanced Technology & Research, Inc.
Aliant Telecom
Alliance Infotech Pte. Ltd.
Apptera, Inc.
AumTech, Inc.
Association of Electronic Technology for Auto traffic and Driving
Bevocal
Brooktrout Technology
Call Interactive
CallWare Technologies, Inc.
Cambridge VoiceTech
Carnegie Mellon University
Convedia Corporation
CosmoCom. Inc.
d-Ear Technologies
Digital Globalsoft
Digital Voice Technologies, Inc.
Edify Corporation
enCue Communications
Envox
Fonix Corporation
Genesys Telecom
Glenayre
Gold Systems
Hewlett Packard Compaq
Hey Anita
Hitachi, Ltd.
iBasis
Infospace
InfoTalk Corporation Ltd
Intervoice
IP Unity
Ivoice, Inc.
Kirusa
Korea Telecom
Loquendo (a Telecom Italia company)
Mediaford
Metaphor Solutions Inc.
Multi-Modal Technologies, Inc.
Natural Microsystems
NeoSpeech, Inc.
One Voice Technologies, Inc.
Orange Imagineering
Phonologies Pvt. Ltd.
Picatel Systems
Rhetorical
Samsung
Sandcherry
Sapient
Satyam
ScanSoft
SnowShore
Softel Communications, Inc.
Svox
T-Systems
Telera
Tenovis
Think Engine Networks
Unisys
V-Enable
Vail Systems
VeCommerce Ltd.
Verizon
Vocalocity, Inc.
Voice Web Solutions, Inc.
VoiceGenie
VoiceLab
VoiceObjects
Voxeo
VoxSurf Limited
West Interactive Corp

Founder Descriptions

Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq “CSCO”) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. News and information are available at www.cisco.com/news.

Comverse

Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology Inc. (Nasdaq “CMVT”), is the world’s leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communications services. More than 375 wireless and wireline telecommunications network operators, in more than 100 countries, have selected Comverse’s enhanced services systems and software, which enable the provision of revenue-generating value-added services including call answering with one-touch call return, short messaging services, IP-based unified messaging (voice, fax and e-mail in a single mailbox), 2.5G/3G multimedia messaging (MMS), wireless instant messaging, wireless data and Internet-based services, voice-controlled dialing, messaging and browsing, prepaid wireless services and additional personal communication services. Other Comverse Technology business units include: Comverse Infosys, a world leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of intelligent digital voice, video and data recording and content management applications for the security, surveillance, law enforcement and contact center markets; and Ulticom, a leading provider of service enabling network software for wireless, wireline and Internet communications. Comverse Technology is an S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 Index company. Additional information is available at the Comverse Web site at http://www.comverse.com.

Intel

Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.

Philips

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is one of the world’s biggest electronics companies and Europe’s largest, with sales of 37.9 billion Euros in 2000. It is a global leader in color television sets, lighting, electric shavers, color picture tubes for televisions and monitors, and one-chip TV products. Its 212,390 employees in more than 60 countries are active in the areas of lighting, consumer electronics, domestic appliances, components, semiconductors and medical systems. Philips is quoted on the NYSE (symbol “PHG”), London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and other stock exchanges. News from Philips is located at http://www.news.philips.com/.

Philips Speech Processing, a business unit of Royal Philips Electronics, is a pioneer and global leader in speech recognition and language-understanding technologies, with more than 40 years of experience in the market of speech products. Today Philips Speech Processing continues to build on its leadership position with this strong solution portfolio and works with numerous third-party partners all over the world in the efforts to deploy speech-driven applications. Visit http://www.speech.philips.com/ for more information.

Scansoft

Through the power of Scansoft SpeechWorks® Solutions, the human voice is all a caller needs to access instant information and conduct transactions from any landline or wireless phone. Providing both server-based and embedded technologies, Scansoft (Nasdaq “SSFT”) delivers natural language speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) solutions as well as speaker verification technology to leading corporations, telecommunications providers and government organizations worldwide. Scansoft is a pioneer in delivering technologies and services to support speech services today, and multimodal applications — combining audio input and output with visual information delivered to any device, over any network, in the future. For a description of our products, services and unique customer programs such as the Scansoft SpeechWorks HereTM Guarantee, call (617) 428-4444 or visit http://www.scansoft.com/.

Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software — any time, any place and on any device.