The technology of speech recognition and synthesis is powerful and subtle. Adding the concept of dialog, which is needed for all but the most trivial applications, is yet another layer of complexity.

From outside the technical speech community, how can you really judge what can and can't be done? You will want independent opinions and advice in addition to the opinions and advice of the individual vendors.

Most of this technology is offered as a kind of Software Development Kit (SDK). And it is supposed to be easily used by regular programmers to build a system. But, as with all skills, the application of speech technology benefits greatly by having depth and breadth of experience in the particulars.

In the early days of graphic user interfaces, we had many unintended examples of what can go wrong when excellent programmers followed their inclinations of what makes a good interface. The issues are the same with speech.

We understand speech technology.

ejTalk can:

• explain issues as you plan an application
• educate your technical staff 
• be a continuing resource