History of Speech and Language Technology

Institution List

Corporations:

Selected Present and Former Companies offering Commercial
Products/Services based on Original Proprietary Speech Engine
Technology:

Acapela Group (Mons, Belgium)

Advanced Recognition Technologies* (Tel Aviv, Israel)

AI Tech* (Boston, MA, USA)

Alcatel-Lucent (Paris, France)

Apple (Cupertino, CA, USA)

Articulate Systems* (Woburn, MA, USA)

AT&T (Murray Hill, NJ, USA)

Autonomy (Cambridge, UK and San Francisco, CA, USA)

Babel Technologies (Mons, Belgium)

BBN (Cambridge, MA, USA) owned by Raytheon (Waltham, MA, USA)

British Telecom (London, UK)

Centigram* (Sunnyvale, CA, and San Jose, CA)

Cepstral (Pittsburgh, PA)

Computalker Consultants* (Sana Monica, CA)

Conversay (Redmond, WA)

Corona Systems* (Menlo Park, CA, USA) renamed Nuance

Covox* (Eugene, OR, USA)

Daimler Benz (Stuttgart, Germany)

Deutsche Telekom (Berlin, Germany)

Dialog Systems* (Belmont, MA, USA)

Digital Equipment Corporation* (Maynard, MA, USA)

Dragon Systems* (Newton, MA, USA)

Elan Informatique* (Toulouse, France)

Eloquent Technologies* (Ithaca, NY, USA)

Entropic Systems* (Washington, DC, USA) and Cambridge, UK)

Fast-Talk Communications* (Atlanta, GA) renamed Nexidia

Fonix (Lindon, UT)

France Telecom (Paris, France)

G-Data (Bochum, Germany)

Google (Mt. View, CA, USA)

Heuristics* (Sunnyvale, CA)

IBM (Armonk, NY)

Infinitive Speech Systems* (Bristol, UK)

InfoTalk (Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong)

InfoVox* (Solna, Sweden)

INTEL (Santa Clara, CA, USA)

Interstate Electronics* (Anaheim, CA, USA)

Kurzweil Applied Intelligence* (Waltham, MA, USA)

Lernout & Hauspie* (Ieper, Belgium)

LogicaCMG* (London, UK)

Locus Dialogue* (Montreal, Canada)

Loquendo (Turin, Italy)

Lucent Technologies* (Murray Hill, NJ, USA)

M*Modal (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Microsoft (Redmond, OR, USA)

Motorola (Schaumburg, IL, USA)

NEC (Tokyo, Japan)

NeoSpeech (Sunnyvale, CA, USA)

Nexidia (Atlanta GA, USA)

Nortel (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada)

Novauris (Cheltenham, UK)

NSC (Rishon Le-Zion, Israel)

Nuance* (Menlo Park, CA)

Nuance (Burlington, MA, USA)

PerSay (Ra'anana, Israel)

Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, Netherlands)

Phonetic Systems* (Petach Tivka, Israel)

PureSpeech* (Boston, MA, USA)

Raytheon BBN (see BBN)

Rhetorical Systems* (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Scansoft *(Peabody, MA, USA) renamed Nuance (Burlington, MA, USA)

Scott Instruments* (Denton, TX, USA)

Sensory, Inc. *(Santa Clara, CA, USA)

Sony (Tokyo, Japan)

SoftSound *(Cambridge, UK)

Speech Communications Research Lab* (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)

Speech Machines* (Div. of Philips Electronics) (Malvern, UK)

Speech Plus* (Mountainview, CA, USA)

Speech Systems* (Tarzana, CA, USA)

Speechworks* (Boston, MA, USA)

Spinvox* (Cambridge, UK)

Syrinx Speech Systems* (North Sydney, Australia)

Telefonica (Madrid, Spain)

TEMIC* (Germany)

Telisma (Paris, France)

Texas Instruments* (Dallas, TX, USA)

T-Netix (Chicago, IL, USA)

Threshold Technology* (Delran, NJ, USA)

UNISYS (Blue Bell, PA, USA)

Vecsys (Orsay, France)

Verbex* (Bedford, MA, USA)

Veritel (Chicago, IL, USA)

Verizon (Basking Ridge, NJ, USA)

Vocalis* (Cambridge, UK)

Vocollect (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Voice Control Systems* (Denton, TX, USA)

Voice Processing Corporation* (Cambridge, MA, USA)

Voice Signal* (Woburn, MA, USA)

Votan* (Fremont, CA, USA)

Voiceware (Seoul, Korea)

Yap (Charlotte, NC, USA)

* No longer doing business under this name.