LumenVox explained

LumenVox
Foundation:2001
Founder:Edward Miller
Location Country:U.S.

LumenVox is a privately held speech recognition software company based in San Diego, California. LumenVox has been described as one of the market leaders in the speech recognition software industry.[1]

History

LumenVox was founded in 2001 as subsidiary of Progressive Computing. According to LumenVox CEO Edward Miller, when Progressive had initially looked to add speech recognition to its own phone system, it found the existing offerings too expensive and recognized a niche in the market for a more affordable speech recognition product. This led to the development of LumenVox with an aim to bring speech recognition to small-to-midsized businesses.[2]

LumenVox is one of the major providers of automatic speech recognition for telephone systems, and as of 2006, became the second largest provider of speech recognition software.[3]

Products

The primary LumenVox product is the LumenVox Speech Engine. It is a speaker-independent automatic speech recognizer that uses the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification for building and defining grammars.[4] It has been integrated with several of the major voice platforms, including Avaya Voice Portal/Interactive Response,[5] Aculab,[6] and BroadSoft's BroadWorks.[7] The Speech Engine was originally derived from CMU Sphinx,[8] but LumenVox has added considerable development effort to make it a commercial-ready product.[9]

LumenVox also offers a product called the Speech Tuner, which provides a graphical means of testing and troubleshooting speech recognition applications.[10]

Open source support

LumenVox was recognized as one of the top VoIP companies in 2008 for its work in providing its offerings to the open source community,[11] an effort by the company that began in 2006 when it partnered with Digium. At that time, Digium, maintainer of the open source Asterisk PBX, integrated the LumenVox Speech Engine into Asterisk. This made LumenVox the first commercially available speech recognition engine for Asterisk.[12]

As one of the earlier commercial software integrations with Asterisk, the LumenVox integration has been described as one of the applications that helped to mainstream Asterisk.[13] [14]

In 2009, LumenVox also began offering access to the Speech Engine as a monthly subscription, bringing the cost of entry down even lower for open source users.[15] [16]

LumenVox is also integrated with the open source UniMRCP project, which provides open source client and server libraries for the Media Resource Control Protocol.[17] [18]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The 2008 Market Leaders. Klie. Leonard. August 22, 2008. Speech Technology Magazine. March 3, 2010.
  2. Web site: Interview with Ed Miller, CEO, LumenVox. October 1, 2002. Speech Technology Magazine. March 5, 2010.
  3. Web site: Nuance Buys New York Software Firm. Lessner. Ivy. October 2, 2007. TheStreet.com. March 5, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606005905/http://www.thestreet.com/s/nuance-buys-new-york-software-firm/newsanalysis/techsoftware/10382384.html?puc=_googlen%3Fcm_ven%3DGOOGLEN&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA. June 6, 2011. dead.
  4. Web site: Speech Engine. LumenVox. March 5, 2010.
  5. Web site: Application Notes for LumenVox Speech Engine and LumenVox MRCPv1 Server with Avaya Interactive Response. August 20, 2009. Avaya. March 5, 2010.
  6. Web site: IVR solutions using Aculab's media processing boards and software. Aculab. March 5, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100314095056/http://www.aculab.com/solutions/IVR-solutions.asp. March 14, 2010. dead.
  7. Web site: LumenVox Speech Engine Achieves Compliance with BroadSoft's BroadWorks Platform. May 22, 2008. Speech Technology Magazine. March 5, 2010.
  8. Web site: Applications, CMU Sphinx . Carnegie Mellon University . March 5, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100304111711/http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/applications/ . March 4, 2010 .
  9. Web site: Asterisk Fuels Speech Technologies. Tehrani. Rich. May 11, 2007. Communications and Technology Blog – Tehrani.com. March 5, 2010.
  10. Web site: LumenVox Speech Tuner. LumenVox. March 5, 2010.
  11. Web site: LumenVox, Top VoIP Company 2008: FierceVoIP, Fierce 15. November 4, 2008. FierceVoIP. March 5, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101225224131/http://www.fiercevoip.com/special-reports/lumenvox-top-voip-company-2008-fiercevoip-fierce-15. December 25, 2010. dead.
  12. Web site: LumenVox and Digium Partner to Offer Speech-Enabled Asterisk. March 13, 2006. LumenVox. March 5, 2010.
  13. Web site: Advanced Applications of Asterisk. Mohney. Doug. January–February 2008. VON Magazine. March 5, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20080408111410/http://www.vonmag-digital.com/vonmag/20080102/?pg=38. April 8, 2008. dead.
  14. Web site: Open Source Efforts No Longer an 'Obscure Sideshow of Geeks'. Bernier. Paula. November 2009. Internet Telephony Magazine. March 5, 2010.
  15. Web site: LumenVox's Speech Engine Now Available via the Software-as-a-Service Model. Barnard. Patrick. December 11, 2009. TMCnet.com. March 5, 2010.
  16. Web site: LumenVox and Digium offer $7.99/month speech recognition with Asterisk IVR. Meisel. William. January 2010. Speech Strategy News. March 9, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110717063729/http://tmaa.com/images/SSN199-0110.pdf. July 17, 2011. dead.
  17. Web site: Interop with LumenVox . Chaloyan. Arsen. December 27, 2008. UniMRCP Project. March 5, 2010.
  18. Web site: LumenVox MRCPv2 Interop. Chaloyan. Arsen. March 26, 2009. UniMRCP Project. March 5, 2010.

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