Partners

Broca Networks has evolved its application development framework to allow us to use the best of breed technology when deploying advanced speech applications. Below are details of our current partners.

Nuance Nuance is the leader in natural speech interface software that makes access to information, transactions, and services over the telephone convenient and secure. Every day, millions of people place calls, make travel reservations, trade stocks, and interact with other telecommunications, enterprise, and web-based systems running Nuance's speech recognition, language understanding, and voice authentication software. Nuance is a founding member of the V-Commerce Alliance and has led the industry in the creation of open standards for speech application development. Nuance is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with global sales offices and partners supporting multilingual solutions around the world. www.nuance.com

DENDRITE Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, Dendrite (NASDAQ: DRTE) develops and delivers solutions that increase the productivity of sales, marketing, and clinical processes for pharmaceutical and other life science clients. Dendrite's product and services portfolio includes Information Management, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Commercial Operations Solutions, and CRM Channel Solutions. Dendrite serves the global life sciences industry, with sales representatives and managers from over 150 companies located in more than 50 countries using our products and services. In addition to the United States, Dendrite maintains offices in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, and the United Kingdom. www.dendrite.com

ZOW ZOW is about generating revenue by building joint venture projects together with telcos, content owners and corporate sponsors, to develop engaging entertainment that will fascinate and compel listeners to call back again and again. ZOW, established in July 2001, brings together the best in Complex Intelligence technology, telephone communications and mobile entertainment. ZOW's Senior Management combines many years of experience in telephony, entertainment, game development and artificial intelligence. Together they create a solid and winning technology, creative and business team. www.zowltd.com

Confero Based in the UK, Confero operates a new style of outsourced call centre capable of responding to today's fast changing environment without compromising on quality. Localised, mid-sized centres offering the complete professional service with a personal touch. A first class call centre that is near to your business. Highly trained staff who share your values. The latest technology geared to your exact requirements. www.confero.co.uk

CCIR The Centre for Communication Interface Research (CCIR) is part of the School of Engineering and Electronics at the University of Edinburgh. CCIR's research deals with people interacting with automated systems. CCIR undertakes research in usability engineering and dialogue engineering for speech recognition services (vCommerce), for Internet services (eCommerce) and for mobile services (mCommerce). CCIR's commercial sponsors support research into the design and experimental evaluation of human-computer interfaces. CCIR also undertakes more general studies of human factor aspects of human-computer interface design. www.ccir.ed.ac.uk

Computer Speech Text and Internet Technology (CSTIT) The University of Cambridge Masters course in Computer Speech Text and Internet Technology (CSTIT) provides training in the theory of speech and language technology, with special emphasis on its use in advanced Internet applications. The course is jointly run by the Speech Vision and Robotics (SVR) group in the Department of Engineering and the Natural Language and Information Processing (NLIP) group in the Computer Laboratory. Broca is one of a small group of companies who are actively working in Speech and Language Technology and have been invited to partner with the CSTIT Industry Group. www.svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/cstit/

Rhetorical Rhetorical Systems is a technology company specialising in the creation of text to speech software and voice synthesis. It is based in Scotland. Its core product, rVoiceTM, was launched in May 2001 and has been recognised by many speech synthesis experts as being the most advanced text-to-speech software solution available. rVoice currently offers six different voices ranging from a Bronx drawl to a Scots accent. The flexibility of the core software package means that new voices are relatively easy to add. www.rhetorical.com

Aculab Aculab have produced a computer telephony (CT) product portfolio that satisfies the speech resource and global digital connectivity requirements of developers and system integrators. CT applications utilising Aculab's components can handle real-time telephony, through an extensive range of resources and signalling systems. The evolution of Aculab's generic API, to provide a consistent programming interface, reduces the integration time of a combination of technologies including text-to-speech (TTS), automatic speech recognition (ASR), conferencing and fax. Collectively through supporting a broad range of industry standards and operating systems, Aculab can provide the products needed when quality and performance cannot be compromised. www.aculab.com