Ribbit Introduces Scalable, Next-Generation Voice-to-Text Application Services for Carriers and Enterprise Customers

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 | located in Platform | No Comments »

Today at The Messaging Industry Association event taking place in Tampa, FL we are announcing the launch of VTT-sa™, a next-generation service that lets network operators and enterprise customers integrate and deploy high quality voice-to-text services to the largest networks at competitive rates.

Available now for integration and testing for qualifying network operators and enterprise customers, VTT-sa is:

• A secure, cloud-based service that is an integral part of the award winning Ribbit platform.
• Converts voice to text for mobile and wireline voicemail systems, traditional and IP-based PBXs, and conference calling and other business critical applications.
• Can also be extended to a private cloud-based infrastructure for customers who prefer governance and control of their cloud environment.
• Ensures customers’ requirements for privacy, accuracy, language and conversion speeds can be set and adjusted on demand.
• Uses proprietary algorithms, advanced modeling and forecasting software to continuously monitor and analyze the voice-to-text performance of a qualified group of voice-to-text conversion providers and automatically selects in real-time, the one that has the highest performance and which most closely matches the requirements specified for each voice-to-text conversion

Enterprise customers working in government, finance, legal, healthcare and other sectors that routinely handle sensitive data can choose a service level that relies solely on voice recognition software and algorithms to convert voice to text. General business consumers with less stringent security requirements can choose service levels optimized for speed and accuracy.

Quote:

• Stephen Wu, general manager, Ribbit Voice-to-Text Services: “Network operators and enterprises understand the value of converting voice-to-text and making it searchable and actionable in a range of applications. With support for multiple speech recognition methods and providers, VTT-sa delivers unmatched flexibility, security, reliability and performance. Network operators and enterprises can finally have the best of both worlds – leading-edge voice-to-text application services backed by an experienced, global technology company and telephony provider.”

Available in both English and Spanish, VTT-sa supports a variety of interface options including TDM, SIP, REST APIs, SMTP, SMS/SMPP, IMS and legacy SS7. Extended interface options including advanced call completion features are also available via Ribbit/BT’s cloud-based, telco-class 4/5 infrastructure.

For more information, please visit us online.

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Vote with Voice

Monday, June 8th, 2009 | located in Applications | No Comments »

Once of the latest applications to come from our developer community is Vote With Voice.

Vote with Voice is a polling service where you call in to cast your vote, then watch as the application transcribes your vote to text and post it onto a call wall for all to see (and listen to as well as it also provides the MP3 of the original all).

Create your own, or participate in one of the other polls on the site. Try it. Call now. Cast your vote.

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Ribbit is going back to school. Sort of.

Friday, March 6th, 2009 | located in Conferences/Events, Ribbit Mobile | No Comments »

I love the diversity of the Ribbit product line and the various ‘channels’ we get to play in - CRM, Mobile, Telco and ‘Internal’ plays as it surely keeps things interesting here.

It is also great to see the various verticals we extend our services to, and one especially that peeks my interest is the Education sector. I have spent a large chunk of my life, in my various roles, helping ‘educate’ folks in some form or another and believe there is a huge opportunity for Ribbit to do some good within Universities and schools around the world. Seems no better place to dip our toes in than at the upcoming ACUTA conference taking place on April 19-21 in Atlanta, Georgia.

We will showcase our private beta version of Ribbit for Mobile, a service that transforms any physical phone into a physical/virtual “dual world” phone, enabling consumers to use their current phone plans in any number of new and evolving Web environments, live at the event, in booth #217.

Educational institutions are using the secure Ribbit platform to quickly build communication-enabled applications that are purpose-built to address their students’ and faculties’ needs. From academic, workflow and business processes, to coordinated on- and off-campus communications, Ribbit empowers educational institutions to communication-enable and enhance every facet of their operations.

Words of wisdom from our Director of Business Development, Alain Mowad:

• “The Ribbit platform gives educational institutions the power to create customized, robust, and secure applications to fit their needs quickly and cost-effectively. And, it’s exciting to show the education industry how Ribbit for Mobile can easily integrate into their communications and increase function and productivity, in both academic and business environments.”

Using Ribbit’s Programmable Communications Platform, communication features and functions are universally accessible through a multiplicity of common programming languages, over both public and private IP data networks. Ribbit bridges the traditional world of telephony with the emerging world of Web-based and mobile communications allowing widgets, applets, applications and workflows to be quickly prototyped, tested, deployed and shared.

More good things to know about Ribbit for Mobile:

• Ribbit has addressed both the underlying network and platform issues that until now have held back widespread deployment of rich media communications systems. The Ribbit platform resides outside of the institution’s facilities making available, from the Internet, all of the facilities required to support the complete life cycle of building and delivering communication enabled applications and services.
• Ribbit’s platform is highly secure and follows strict guidelines around privacy and security of data, allowing educational institutions to comply with privacy and security regulations. It requires no software downloads or installation for developers, IT managers or end-users.

Alain will be chained to the booth (#217) during the show, so make sure you stop by and say hello.

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