VoiceXML Forum Adds New Leadership
Hewlett-Packard, Nuance, VoiceGenie and West Join Board of Directors
as Sponsor Members
PISCATAWAY, N.J., Sept. 24, 2003
- The VoiceXML Forum announced today that it has expanded the Board
of Directors and elected new officers. Representatives from Hewlett-Packard
(NYSE:HPQ), Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN),
VoiceGenie Technologies, Inc. and
West Corporation (Nasdaq: WSTC) will
join AT&T (NYSE: T), IBM
(NYSE: IBM), Lucent Technologies, Inc.
(NYSE: LU) and Motorola, Inc.
(NYSE:MOT) as Sponsors and will join the Board of Directors to provide
overall strategic direction and leadership. Igor Jablokov of IBM succeeds
Bill Dykas as chairman of the VoiceXML Forum.
The VoiceXML Forum is a four-year old industry
organization chartered with establishing and promoting
Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML), a
technology standard essential to making Internet
content and information accessible via voice and
phone. With the backing and technology contributions
of its diverse membership, the VoiceXML Forum
is uniquely positioned to help drive the evolution
of VoiceXML and accelerate market adoption for
speech-enabled applications worldwide.
"We
are pleased to welcome our new Sponsor members,"
said Igor Jablokov, newly appointed chairman of
the VoiceXML Forum. "Hewlett-Packard, Nuance,
VoiceGenie and West have been key contributors
in the Forum since its inception, and VoiceXML
is critical to their companies' speech strategies.
The decision to invite these companies to become
Sponsors and their interest in assuming a leadership
role, demonstrates the tremendous industry interest
in the Forum and the importance of VoiceXML to
the industry."
Members of the VoiceXML Board of Directors include:
- Chairman: Igor Jablokov, IBM
- Vice Chairman: Mark Disbrow, Lucent Technologies,
Inc.
- Treasurer: Eileen Natale, AT&T
- Secretary: Cindy Tiritilli, IEEE-ISTO
- Director: Mark Randolph, Motorola, Inc.
- Director: Bruce Pollock, West Corporation
- Director: Dan Burnett, Nuance
- Director: Eric Jackson, VoiceGenie Technologies,
Inc.
- Director: Scott McGlashan, Hewlett-Packard
"Our research indicates that revenues from the
development of voice applications will exceed
$1.5 billion for hardware, software and professional
services in 2007," observed Dan Miller, senior
analyst at Zelos
Group, and author of the recently published
Roadmap Report on the Voice Application Infrastructure.
"Much of this growth will be fueled by the use
of IP-based platforms to extend Web-based self-service
applications over the telephone. The VoiceXML
Forum has played an important role in defining
the standard. New Sponsors and an expanding leadership
will aid the Forum in driving deployment of VoiceXML
as the standard for building voice applications
on open platforms rather than proprietary IVR
systems."
About the VoiceXML Forum
The VoiceXML Forum is an industry organization
that formed to create and promote the Voice Extensible
Markup Language (VoiceXML). With the backing and
contributions of its diverse membership, including
key industry leaders, since its inception the
VoiceXML Forum has successfully driven market
acceptance of VoiceXML through a wide array of
speech-enabled applications. Currently the Forum
has more than 380 member
companies, distributed across three membership
categories (Sponsor, Promoter and Supporter).
Membership in the Forum is open to any interested
company.
The core activities of the VoiceXML Forum are
driven by its four active committees: Education,
Marketing, Tools and Conformance. The Forum publishes
VoiceXML Review (http://www.voicexmlreview.org),
an electronic magazine dedicated to VoiceXML,
featuring insightful articles written by industry
experts. Its public website (www.voicexml.org)
is a rich, one-stop source for information about
VoiceXML and related technologies.
For more information about the VoiceXML Forum
please visit www.voicexml.org or contact the VoiceXML
Forum Administrative Team at +1 732 465 6464 orvoicexml-admin@voicexml.org.
The VoiceXML Forum is organized as a program of
the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization
(IEEE-ISTO).
For media inquiries please contact:
Christian DeNike
Prequent Inc. (for the VoiceXML Forum)
christian@prequent.com
+1 408 307 1236
For all inquiries please contact:
Cindy Tiritilli
Program Manager, VoiceXML Forum
c/o IEEE-ISTO
cindy@ieee-isto.org
+ 1 732 981 3434
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