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SALT Implementations, Tools and Products

SALT Product Web Casts
  CMU's OpenSALT Open Source SALT Browser
and EnCue Communications SALT Product Suite
   
  Voice Web Solutions: Voice Web Studio
and Vocalocity Voice Gateway 2.0
   

Product Directory

  • enCue Communications
    enCue Communications (formerly known as TranXactive), a leader in Microsoft .NET voice development, encorporated a Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) Browser as an addition to the enCue Voice.NET Server platform. The enCue Voice.NET platform provides interoperability between various automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS) and telephony board suppliers, such as Nuance, Microsoft, Dialogic and Aculab.

    By building on the strengths of the Microsoft .NET platform, the enCue Voice.Net Server offers an excellent platform for rapid development and deployment of Speech applications, using SALT and all the .NET based languages such as C#, VB.NET and Managed C++.

    The SALT Browser will be made available as part of the next release of the enCue Voice.NET Server, and will support the voice-only subset of the SALT 1.0 Specification. It will be available both as a telephony based server browser as well as a desktop browser, ideally suited for application development and testing.

    The enCue Voice.NET Suite will also include a range of SALT based developer tools and pre-built applications, including an auto-attendant, a voice activated dialer and a directory service. The developer tools include Microsoft Visual Studio .NET add-ons, such as the enCue Voice.NET Server Controls – a set of ASP.NET based re-usable dialog controls.

    For more information, visit www.encue.com

  • HeyAnita
    HeyAnita, a leading voice technology software company and original contributing member of the SALT Forum, fully supports the most current voice standards including the SALT 1.0 specification. HeyAnita has developed a robust SALT-compliant browser and supports SALT in its core platform technology. HeyAnita's FreeSpeech™ SALT Browser enables rapid deployment of applications developed using SALT-based tools, such as the Microsoft® .NET Speech SDK and Visual Studio® .NET.

    HeyAnita's offering includes the FreeSpeech Gateway Server, a carrier-grade media server, for deploying and managing in-premise or hosted voice applications. The FreeSpeech Gateway Server was built with flexibility at its core, enabling service providers to utilize the ASR and TTS software and telephony hardware of their choice. HeyAnita's leading technology allows for the efficient deployment of standards-compliant voice applications.

    Providing secure voice access to any audio or text-based content, HeyAnita also offers a suite of prepackaged SALT supported applications ranging from personal information management solutions (Voice Manager for Exchange, voice access to email, voice-activated dialing, voice access to voice mail and integrated messaging) to content and location-based solutions (business finder, flight tracker, news, and stock quotes).

    HeyAnita has operations in the U.S., Europe, India and Korea and sells its solutions to wireless service providers.

    For more information, visit www.heyanita.com/ and www.heyanita.com/news/pr_Salt-07-05-02.html

  • Intervoice
    Intervoice is committed to the implementation and evolution of SALT-based solutions and has selected SALT as its preferred environment for speech-enabled and multi-modal applications.

    Omvia, the company's open, standards-based product suite, is a highly scalable architecture with flexible options suitable for deployment in enterprises of all sizes and the world's largest networks. The Omvia platform provides natural language recognition of large vocabularies, text-to-speech conversion and speech authentication. Omvia also delivers extensive connectivity to legacy, enterprise and Web-based data sources, as well as comprehensive computer telephony integration (CTI) capabilities.

    Intervoice's InVision Studio application development environment enables businesses to quickly prototype and deploy dynamic SALT-based multimedia applications, such as voice portals with automated speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech applications. InVision Studio provides a framework which complements Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment (IDE) and the .NET Speech SDK for implementing SALT-based speech-enabled applications.

    More information is available at www.intervoice.com/salt/

  • MayWeHelp.com
    MayWeHelp.com is in the process of adding SALT support to the GetVocal Gateway telephony server and is also working to deploy a lite version of their SALT interpreter (WinCE.NET ) targeted to run on the Pocket PC / Windows CE OS.

    GetVocal is a telephony division of MayWeHelp.com. MayWeHelp.com provides companies with real-world voice and internet customer communications solutions including: VoiceXML powered Interactive Voice Response technology, one-to-one secured text chat technology, natural language self-service technologies, and wireless PDA chat technologies. For more information, contact chris@maywehelp.com.

  • Microsoft
    The Microsoft® Speech Application Software Development Kit (SASDK) Version 1.1 is a set of development tools and additional resources based on the Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) specification that enables developers to incorporate speech functionality into Web applications.

    The SASDK seamlessly integrates into the Visual Studio® .NET 2003 developer environment and includes speech extensions for Microsoft Internet Explorer browser software, effectively extending Internet Explorer to support both telephony (speech-only) and multimodal (combined speech/visual input and output) interaction. The SASDK also contains a desktop version of the Microsoft speech recognition engine, a test-level version of the Microsoft Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine, and a host of tools necessary for building and testing speech applications. With the SASDK, developers will be able to create and provide access to speech-enabled Web applications from a wide range of devices, including desktop computers, Tablet PCs, and telephones. The SASDK can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/speech/getsdk/.

  • OpenSALT
    The OpenSALT project at Carnegie Mellon University will make available a SALT 1.0 compliant open-source browser, based on the open source Mozilla web browser and making use of open source Sphinx recognition and Festival synthesis software. The first release is expected to be a desktop browser, to be available by the end of 2002. It will be initially for the Windows platform, and will be followed by a version for the Linux platform. The subsequent focus will be on development of a version suitable for mobile devices, and a version for telephony-based systems. www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/OpenSALT/

  • SandCherry and Kirusa
    SandCherry, an innovative communications software company, and Kirusa, the leading provider of platforms enabling multimodal delivery of wireless applications, have announced a demonstration of the next-generation in multimodal wireless applications using the Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) specification. The Web-based World Cup multimodal application combines the ease of use offered by simultaneous voice and visual control with the excitement of visual, audio, and video multimedia content delivery. Customers now have the ability to use either voice or visual input to navigate through screens, enter information, and retrieve application content via compatible wireless devices, such as mobile phones and wirelessly enabled PDAs. For more information, see www.kirusa.com/News_press_jul22_02.php.

  • Scansoft
    The recent Scansoft acquisition Philips Speech Processing - Telephony, a provider of speech-enabled business solutions for telecoms, financial institutions, call centers and other industries, has developed a SALT Browser to meet the increasing customer demand for standardization and flexibility of application development.

    The SALT Browser is based on SALT standards and connects speech processing and telephony resources with application components. This browser will enable companies to extend their existing web applications through the use of voice access, which can be added to a web application by using existing infrastructure, application and languages like Java or ECMA Script. The additional voice interface will extend existing web-based services from web-only to web and voice access. The SALT browser also allows companies to individually select their preference of web or voice to access the requested information. For more information, please visit http://www.scansoft.com/ as well as www.speechtechmag.com/pub/industry/942-1.html.

  • SpeechWorks
    SpeechWorks International will support the SALT specification with speech recognition and TTS resources that operate within the SALT environment as well as application building blocks to aid in the construction of SALT applications. For more information, please visit www.speechworks.com.

  • Vocalocity
    At the heart of Vocalocity’s product suite is the Voice Gateway 2.0 which contains Vocalocity’s SALT 1.0 compliant interpreter. The Gateway provides the coordination of multiple resources including telephony, voice recognition, text-to-speech, audio, media caching, SALT interpretation, billing integration and systems management. The Gateway has been specifically designed to manage a distributed network of these components. In addition, the Gateway seamlessly integrates disparate resources, allowing customers to use existing equipment, tie into existing legacy systems, and drive down costs by allowing customers to shop for components that best fit their needs. Vocalocity's products also support VoiceXML and the Voice Gateway 2.0 can support both VoiceXML and SALT calls through a single port. For more information, please visit http://www.vocalocity.net/index.html.
     
  • Voice Web Solutions
    Voice Web Studio™ is a product from Voice Web Solutions, Inc. for Macromedia Dreamweaver™ MX that provides the necessary tools to visually build and deploy speech-enabled Web and telephone (IVR/VRU) applications based on SALT 1.0. Within the Dreamweaver MX environment, Voice Web Studio facilitates a set of common design methods and protocols for developers interested in creating multimodal services and or enhancing consumer accessibility by enabling the disabled to interactively speak to Web sites.
    More information is available at www.voicewebsolutions.net/products/vweb


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enCue Communications

HeyAnita

Intervoice

MayWeHelp.com

Microsoft

OpenSALT

SandCherry & Kirusa

Scansoft

SpeechWorks

Vocalocity

VoiceWeb Solutions