VOIP Conference Notes
One of our developers attended last week's VOIP Developer Conference in San Jose and came back with some observations about consequences to speech:
- The move to VOIP is driven by functionality, not cost. VOIP is taking off because there are great new things you can do that you coudn't do before, not because it's cheaper. Of course this fits right into the sweet spots we are targeting for our speech products.
- VOIP demands extremely high reliability (five 9s or seven 9s). Our products have to live in that world with similar reliability.
- Interoperability is more important than ever, so we need to pay close attention to SIP and RTP.
- VOIP gateways require echo cancellation. That's something that could affect our recognition, and we need to understand it better.
