Business FAQ

InternetSpeech’s netECHO is based on proprietary artificial intelligence that automatically reads any page written in HTML, XML, VXML or WML, and simultaneously converts text to speech. Businesses do not ever need to spend the tedious time it takes to rewrite web pages in VXML. In fact, InternetSpeech’s netECHO technology translates applications 20 times faster and costs five times less than if VXML was used to convert text to speech.

With InternetSpeech, voice-enabling can take one to fourteen days, depending on the level of customization businesses want. Customization is needed for special “dialog design” or “ form processing.” Compared to using VXML, which take 20 times longer or as much as six months, InternetSpeech’s automated process is extremely efficient and cost-effective.

InternetSpeech offers different hosting options for businesses. InternetSpeech can provide technology that plugs into a business’ existing web site, so it can be managed remotely from another server at third party hosting company, or customers can host at their own facility.

InternetSpeech’s netECHO is compatible with any computing platform.

Yes. InternetSpeech’s netECHO can plug into any application, including intranets and extranets.

InternetSpeech is shaking up the voice Internet market and dispelling the myths of voice portals. InternetSpeech allows users to seamlessly access the entire Internet by talking through the telephone. Voice portals only let users hear pre-determined content, such as horoscopes or stock quotes, and do not really surf the Internet.
InternetSpeech can actually help traditional voice portal companies, as well as businesses that want to offer voice portals for financial, medical or customer services, for example. In both cases, InternetSpeech automates the voice-enabling process, so that users They can access download any information from the website Internet, including whether it is the current news, weather conditions or latest stock quotes. There is no need to rewrite or upgrade the existing contents using VXML, which is not only expensive, but also takes time.

Future versions of InternetSpeech’s netECHO will be ideal for all types of e-commerce or m-commerce applications and transactions. For example, users will be able to fill out a submission form, get answers to queries, give credit card information that is reliable and secured, buy books, clothes and CDs, make online bill payments, and get have access to bank accounts exactly the same way they do with a visual browser. With netECHO, users will be able to purchase anything online, anytime and anyplace simply by using a standard or wireless telephone. Additionally, businesses will be able to offer their customers so much more with voice Internet capabilities.

InternetSpeech broadens the possibilities that voice portals, ISPs and major corporations and other businesses can offer their customers. With InternetSpeech’s voice Internet solutions, companies can significantly enhance their services with following applications:

• Stock quotes and portfolio tracker
• Personal Information Management
• Flight tracker
• Package tracker
• Reservations and travel management services
• E-commerce
• Customer service
• Information retrieval system
• Alert service
• Order confirmation
• CRM applications
• Travel reservation system

InternetSpeech’s technology automatically integrates with back end databases and applications. These applications could be traditional legacy systems to new applications such as ERP/SCM and CRM. Some of the potential CRM application modules are:

• Multimedia call centers that receive regular telephone calls, as well as inquiries that initiate from the web, via email, text chat or voice.
• Real-time web transactions on voice command, including online form submissions that process transactions exactly the way visual browsers do. This also includes web transactions integrated with a company’s existing applications.
• Voice-based menu-driven functionality that is flexible, as well as user-friendly, such as the option to start or end any command as per the user’s choice.

InternetSpeech voice-enables all of the pages associated with a particular site, regardless of whether they are HTML, VXML, WML or sites written with any other programming languages.

InternetSpeech is appropriate for several vertical markets and businesses.

• All types of vertical market segments, such as utility, insurance and banking.
• Companies needing to voice-enable services, so that large customer bases can pay bills, obtain insurance policy quotes, check on account information, and more, instantly over the phone.
• Businesses that want to expand access to their existing Web sites to customers who call in on an ordinary phone, as well as corporations that want to offer voice-based access to busy executives and sales professionals to retrieve and enter information on their intranet sites. This also includes ASPs.
• Voice portal companies that are interested in creating content dynamically using the entire Internet as the primary source, rather than creating and maintaining their own.
• Companies that are implementing CRM with a combination of call center automation.
• E-commerce, business-to-business portal and other companies, such as companies those involved in auctions, stock trades, online banking, and more.
• Software companies that provide software solutions, customized solutions, and have their own software products. These companies could add value to their services by voice-enabling their products and services.