Windows Mobile gets voice recognition

published 29 April 2009

TellMe, a subsidiary of [a href="http://www.microsoft.com" target="_blank"rel="nofollow"]Microsoft[/a], has announced today the release of three new voice recognition features for the Windows Mobile platform.

The announcement has been made exactly two years after Microsoft bought TellMe for a reported $800 million (540 million).

Jamie Bertasi, senior director of Business Solutions at Tellme, said: "Our goal is to give enterprises technology that improves the customer experience but also affords them the ultimate financial flexibility when deploying voice services."

"From initial deployments we're seeing impressive cost savings and results that we're sure our customers will be excited about."

The three new features, claimed to be designed with cost reduction in mind, are a VoIP carrier service, advanced speech services and what the company call a "new voice font."

The services are available immediately to TellMe platform customers and it has designed a specific version for the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 due later this year.

Jennifer Scott is a former freelance journalist and currently political reporter for Sky News. She has a varied writing history, having started her career at Dennis Publishing, working in various roles across its business technology titles, including ITPro. Jennifer has specialised in a number of areas over the years and has produced a wealth of content for ITPro, focusing largely on data storage, networking, cloud computing, and telecommunications.

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