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Kirusa
and Voice Web Solutions Partner for End-to-End Multimodal
Applications Creation and Deployment.
Industry’s First Comprehensive Environment for Authoring
and Deploying SALT-based Mobile Multimodal Applications Announced.
CTIA Wireless 2003, New Orleans,
LA; March 18, 2003 – Kirusa, the leading provider of
multimodal platforms enabling wireless applications delivery,
and Voice Web Solutions, the premier speech and multimodal
tools provider, today announced integration of Voice Web Solutions’
multimodal authoring tool for Macromedia Dreamweaver MX™
with Kirusa’s multimodal platform, creating the first
complete solution to author, test, and deploy mobile multimodal
applications.
Kirusa's
multimodal platform, offering SMS, sequential, and simultaneous
multimodality, enables wireless phone and PDA users to request
or add information by speaking a command, or by using visual
inputs such as typing or tapping with a stylus. Application
results can be delivered visually on the device screen, by
voice, or through innovative combinations of both voice and
visual modes. In addition to support for VoiceXML-based multimodal
solutions, Kirusa’s platform supports the Speech Application
Language Tags (SALT) specification for speech and multimodal
application development, allowing speech capabilities to be
easily added to mobile Web applications for improved usability
and reduced task completion time. Using SALT and Kirusa’s
simultaneous multimodal support, applications allowing users
to use both voice and visual interactions at the same time
can easily be developed and deployed for numerous advanced
handsets, including those based on platforms such as Microsoft’s
SmartPhone™, Symbian™ (e.g. Nokia’s Series
60 and Symbian OS Version 7 as used by Sony/Ericsson,) Qualcomm’s
BREW™, and Microsoft’s PocketPC.
Voice
Web Studio™, developed by Voice Web Solutions, empowers
application developers to create their own highly accessible
and usable SALT voice solutions and multimodal applications
by using Macromedia’s popular and familiar Dreamweaver
MX development software. As a plug in to Dreamweaver’s
visual development environment, Voice Web Studio allows developers
to rapidly build applications based on SALT that leverage
any familiar Web scripting language. With Voice Web Studio,
any Web page can listen for user input, play speech and audio
prompts, and support sophisticated multimodal interaction
such as playing a speech prompt when a page element is clicked,
or visually confirming recognition of a spoken utterance.
The
Kirusa-Voice Web Solutions joint offering provides mobile
application developers with an exciting new way to swiftly
develop applications that seamlessly integrate visual and
voice interfaces. Mobile multimodal applications can be authored
using Voice Web Studio in the familiar Dreamweaver MX visual
development environment, and tested and deployed across a
range of devices using Kirusa’s multimodal platform.
“As
multimodality gains acceptance among network operators, enterprises,
and vendors, tools to accelerate applications realization
are increasingly crucial to the multimodal ecosystem,”
said Sandeep Sibal, Chief Technology Officer and Founder of
Kirusa. “We are thrilled to be working with Voice Web
Solutions to bring SALT-based mobile multimodal applications
development to the vast community of Web developers who use
Dreamweaver.”
“We
believe multimodality will be a catalyst for mobile applications
development and adoption,” said Brian Graham, President
and Chief Architect of Voice Web Solutions. “By integrating
Voice Web Studio with Kirusa’s market-leading multimodal
platform, we know that we are enabling phenomenal opportunities
for developers to create multimodal applications for the widest
range of emerging mobile devices and networks.”
About
Kirusa
Kirusa, Inc. is a multimodal infrastructure company that has
developed industry leading multimodal technology (with several
patents pending) for the delivery of data applications using
multimodal interfaces. This next generation of wireless technology
allows users to customize the presentation of information
on wireless devices by either alternating, or simultaneously
receiving data through visual and voice interfaces. Kirusa's
customers include the worlds' leading telecom carriers, such
as France Telecom and Bouygues Telecom. Kirusa is funded by
France Telecom Innovacom, Deutsche Bank, Silicon Alley Seed
Investors, and several angel investors. The company is headquartered
in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey and was founded by telecom
and Internet industry veterans from AT&T, Lucent and Vodafone
Airtouch. For more information about Kirusa please call its
headquarters at +1 (908) 464-4467 or visit www.kirusa.com.
About Voice Web Solutions
Voice Web Solutions is the premier provider of tools for developing
robust SALT and VoiceXML speech applications that enable mobile
and accessibility solutions to your most valuable information
through natural voice commands. Voice Web Solutions’
customers include companies developing multimodal and telephony
deployments within various vertical markets. Voice Web Solutions
is a privately held Seattle-based company founded by pioneers
in the Voice Web development community. With groundbreaking
development tools, Voice Web Solutions is leading the charge
for the adoption of speech technology for the accessibility,
telephony, wireless and telematics markets. For more information
about Voice Web Studio call +1 (206) 338-6632 or visit www.VoiceWebSolutions.net.
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Media Contact:
Jeremy Mckenzie
Voice Web Solutions, Inc.
info@voicewebsolutions.net
+1 (206) 338-6632
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