BBN Technologies

BBN develops one of the first continuous speech recognizers using natural language understanding

Among the first to use statistical hidden Markov models for speech recognition

Introduced context dependent phonetic units

First software-only, real-time, large-vocabulary, speaker-independent continuous speech recognizer

HARK™ Recognizer product introduced

First demonstration of 40,000 word real time speech recognizer

Pioneered statistical language understanding and data extraction

Parlance spins out to sell NameConnector

Audio Mining system combines speech and language processing to recognize and translate foreign language broadcast

BBN HARK Deployed in Jaguar Automobile

First 411 Directory Assistance Automation

Successful AVOKE Call Director pilot

AVOKE Call Director rolls out at Verizon

BBN awarded first 2 patents for AVOKE Caller Experience Analytics

Web-based AVOKE Call Browser launched, 8 more patents awarded for AVOKE Caller Experience Analytics