VoiceWeb

VoiceWeb S.A.

Type	Privately Held
Industry	Call Center Automation
Founded	2001
Headquarters	Athens, Greece
Key people	Founders: Dr. Nikos Patsis and Dr. Damianos Hatziantoniou CEO: Dr. Nikos Patsis
Products	speech recognition, speech synthesis, VXML
Slogan	We give your company a voice
Website	www.voiceweb.eu

VoiceWeb is a privately held company that sells speech enabled products and applications to replace the now obsolete DTMF systems. The company specializes in highly interactive voice user interfaces with natural language understanding and several degrees of freedom.

History

The company was founded in March 2001 by Dr. Nikos Patsis & Dr. Damianos Chatziantoniou and launched the first Greek Voice Portal in May 2001. Since then, the company has opened offices in Athens, Greece and Guatemala City, Guatemala. Amongst the major stockholders are InQLab, the 1st Greek incubator of technology startups and SETE Ventures, a Venture Capital located in Geneva.

Products

VoiceWeb offers a variety of speech enabled products in the following areas:

Ticketing applications for
- Entertainment
- Transportation
- Sports
Voice Portals
Automated Ordering Systems
Value Added Services
Call Center Automation
Computer Telephony Integration
Integrated Voice Banking Systems
Embedded Voice Systems
Interactive Voice and Video Response (IVVR) systems and other multimodal applications

The company also sells SMS systems and applications as well as complete web based control and administration panels for their products.

VoiceWeb is a supporter member of the VXML Forum, and a partner of Envox Worldwide.

Customers

VoiceWeb's customers include WIND Hellas (ex TIM Hellas), Vodafone Hellas, Q-Telecom, Village Cinemas, Hellenic Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Labour, First Data, Tellas, Emporiki Bank and many others.

References

External links

VoiceWeb Voice Ticketing for Village Cinemas, case study at envox.com
Village Cinemas VoiceWeb Voice Ticketing Solution at speechtechmag.com
The Pythia Taxi Dispatching System in Greece by VoiceWeb and Loquendo

Speech synthesis

Free software	eSpeak Gnopernicus Gnuspeech Orca Festival Speech Synthesis System FreeTTS Sinsy Automatik Text Reader

Proprietary software	DECtalk Software Automatic Mouth Talk It! Microsoft Agent Microsoft Speech API Microsoft text-to-speech voices Readspeaker Voice browser CoolSpeech VoiceWeb BrowseAloud LaLaVoice Vocaloid Cantor Symphonic Choirs IVONA CereProc Utau Voiceroid NIAONiao Virtual Singer Vocalina Realivox CeVIO Creative Studio Chipspeech Alter/Ego PPG Phonem

Machine	Echo 2 Pattern playback Phasor RIAS Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips TuVox

Applications	AOLbyPhone DialogOS Dr. Sbaitso MBROLA Microsoft Narrator Microsoft Speech Server PlainTalk Voice font

Protocols	Speech Synthesis Markup Language SABLE VoiceXML

Developers/ Researchers	Alan W. Black Catherine Browman Franklin Seaney Cooper Gunnar Fant Haskins Laboratories Wolfgang von Kempelen Ignatius Mattingly Philip Rubin Yamaha

Process	Articulatory synthesis Concatenative synthesis Currah Inverse filter PSOLA Phase vocoder Self-voicing

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