Speech
Recognition Technology will play a vital role in the future of
communications. As PDA's
and Cellular
Devices become more commonly connected to the Internet through
WAP Internet and other protocols users will establish browser
control through Voice Recognition Technologies. Pure play speech
engine companies include NUAN, FONX.OB and SPWX. Competing companies
with divisions in this area include GMGC, IBM, LU and PHG among
others. Recently MSFT received a lot of attention for the technology
that they have been working on in this area. The Voice Portal
industry is expected to grow to a $26 Billion market by 2005 according
to Techweb. Voice Recognition requires Digital Signal Processors
which is why ADI, DSPG and TXN are included on this list.
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