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| NSC Launches NSC SpeechBlade Server NSC has announced a new product: the NSC SpeechBlade Server. The product is a speech processing server with multiple engines operating on the NSC SpeechBlade platform - a family of PCI blades comprising a unique platform that enables the entire speech processing operation to be done on the blade. The NSC SpeechBlade family includes various PCI blades in different sizes and capacities, which enables high density and a flexible and simple implementation of the new product. This unique approach by NSC offers a product that includes the platform and the speech technology combined - allowing a "CPU free" product with simple system architecture. The products' unique architecture position it as an attractive option both for small and large-scale deployments of speech recognition based services. Small deployments are typically in the enterprise market, where the NSC SpeechBlade Server allows utilizing existing platforms with no need for costly investments. Large-scale deployments require large numbers of speech recognition resources, where the high density offered by the product allows up to 120 concurrent speech recognition resources on a single NSC SpeechBlade. The NSC SpeechBlade Server supports multiple speech processing engines: * The NSC Spotter - A word spotting engine used for speech analytics and call surveillance in the security market as well as for mining business information and monitoring agent performance in the call center market. The product supports real-time and off-line processing of a large number of calls. * The NSC Speecher - A speech recognition engine designed for telephony speech driven services, targeting the Call Center, Telco and Enterprise markets. The engine is used for services such as call-center automation, information services, value added services, call routing, etc. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |