LAKE FOREST, Calif.,
Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Voice
Assist, Inc. (OTCBB:VSST) and HarQen, Inc., today announced a
strategic alliance designed to deliver a carrier-grade conference
calling solution, which promises to redefine standard bridge call
capabilities. The innovative solution allows participants to
initiate a call with spoken commands, take notes with their voice,
and then have the call organized so that it can be searched,
reviewed, analyzed and shared afterward. The combined
solution eliminates the logging of call details into popular CRM
solution, such as Salesforce, as well as all the team's notes,
PowerPoint presentations, images, and original voice contributions
would be organized automatically and ready for review.
"Voice Assist is pleased to be chosen by HarQen to provide
hands-free, voice-enabled commands to better enable the conference
call experience safely while driving," said Michael Metcalf, chairman and CEO of Voice
Assist. "This agreement demonstrates our commitment to
expanding the capabilities of Voice Assist's unique voice services
platform."
Voice Assist and HarQen have teamed up to provide a better way
to conduct more productive and efficient meetings than ever before.
Voice Assist is the leading cloud-based platform provider for
enabling enterprise and telephony services through voice.
Voice Assist's Voice Mode™ is changing the way business is
done, making workers safer and increasing their productivity with
the most basic of all communication tools – the human voice.
An end-to-end solution, Voice Mode™ allows conference calls
to be initiated and notes taken via spoken commands that are
non-disruptive to other call participants.
HarQen uses voice technology to streamline business processes
through voice capturing and collaboration, and has enjoyed
significant success with its Voice Advantage virtual interview
product for recruiting. Through this alliance, the companies plan
to leverage their expertise and award-winning technology to create
a next generation of voice-enabled conference bridge solutions that
will be integrated into CRM applications, such as Salesforce, and
other data management applications.
According to a survey published by the Annenberg School of Communications at UCLA and the University of
Minnesota's Training & Development Research Center,
executives spend upwards of 50% of their time in meetings.
"Up until now, we have not had an easy way to initiate a
conference call nor a meaningful way to organize, access or share
these meetings later," said E. Kelly
Fitzsimmons, CEO of HarQen. "Voice Assist is made up of true
industry pioneers and experts. We believe that the combination of
our team's talents and award-winning products will forever change
the way people think of voice communications."
About HarQen
Founded in 2007, HarQen unleashes the richness of information
trapped inside conversations – transforming talk into actionable
insights. HarQen's award-winning Intelligent Voice Service
enables meetings, interviews and other business conversations to be
captured, enriched, organized, navigated, shared and analyzed –
improving collaboration and adding a new layer of business
intelligence to existing data management systems.
For more information, visit www.harqen.com.
About Voice Assist
Headquartered in Lake Forest,
Calif., Voice Assist is a hosted speech services company
that enables voice in any application, network and device.
The company's cloud-based speech platform eliminates the need
to use a keyboard or keypad to interact, and enables users to
communicate, connect or transact using any application on any phone
or IP-connected device. The Voice Assist platform includes a
fast and safe way to make calls, manage your e-mails, send text
messages and post to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter
by voice commands and provides a scalable solution for developers
to add voice to any application.
For more information on the company, visit www.voiceassist.com.
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SOURCE Voice Assist, Inc.