Voxeo: A Tough Act to Beat!

Hats off yet again to the talented folks at Voxeo! Anybody who took the time to download their recently announced Prophecy beta was certain to be impressed. As we described in a earlier posting on this topic, the Voxeo offering is the industry's first complete (ASR & TTS included) freely downloadable VoiceXML platform. Now Voxeo has bragging rights to another first in that they are the first and ONLY vendor to pass 100% of all the VoiceXML Forum's formal platform certification tests!

For those of you who are not familiar with the Forum's certification test, this might sound somewhat odd, in that you'd expect any certified VoiceXML platform (and there are many!) to pass all the conformance tests. The fact is however, that there are a fair number of optional tests in the suite that are not required for formal certification. The guys at Voxeo are sort of like the precocious geek you remember from elementary school that did all the math problems in the text book the first week of school so he could work on the interesting stuff the rest of the year when everybody else was still trying to figure out the homework assignment. :-)

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