Comments on: Ubona secures Series A Funding from Capital18 http://www.pluggd.in/funding/ubona-series-a-funding-from-capital18-infomedia-integration-2416/ We Heart Startups! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:53:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Speech Recognition India http://www.pluggd.in/funding/ubona-series-a-funding-from-capital18-infomedia-integration-2416/comment-page-1/#comment-90768 Speech Recognition India Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:20:07 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/08/ubona-receives-series-a-funding-from-capital18#comment-90768 Another company with core IP in the field is <a href="http://www.simmortel.com" rel="nofollow"> Simmortel Voice </a>. Seems like the <a href="http://www.simmortel.com" rel="nofollow"> speech recognition Indian </a> scene is heating up? regards, Bailoo Another company with core IP in the field is Simmortel Voice . Seems like the speech recognition Indian scene is heating up?

regards,
Bailoo

]]> By: Nilesh http://www.pluggd.in/funding/ubona-series-a-funding-from-capital18-infomedia-integration-2416/comment-page-1/#comment-84124 Nilesh Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:53:25 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/08/ubona-receives-series-a-funding-from-capital18#comment-84124 Oh, this reminds me of those good old days when I was working with Nuance. We used to build cool IVR apps like ordering pizzas on phone and calling wikipedia to answer questions like "what the heck is -insert buzzword here-". My coolest app was getting mandi prices for agricultural products in Hindi using just a plain phone call by scraping data from Agmarknet site. :-) IVR has real opportunity in the indian market. The biggest advantage being that this brings the information revolution to the common man in his language. Even to the illiterates. Everybody can deal with voice. Ashish, you are right when you say that it is all about packaging. But those techies are also missing the point that "punching in the accents" require lot of research with real recorded data. For a country like India, this would simply mean years of research. There is a reason Nuance is where it is. OnMobile has done some good work in speech recognition for indian languages with the help of a language research institute in Mysore. Then there are a couple of companies with genuine core IP, like Prologix with its Hindi text-to-speech engine and Phonologies with its VoiceXML platform. Ubona is at the right place and the right time with the right offering. Expect to hear more good news about them. :-) cheers nilesh Oh, this reminds me of those good old days when I was working with Nuance. We used to build cool IVR apps like ordering pizzas on phone and calling wikipedia to answer questions like “what the heck is -insert buzzword here-”. My coolest app was getting mandi prices for agricultural products in Hindi using just a plain phone call by scraping data from Agmarknet site. :-)

IVR has real opportunity in the indian market. The biggest advantage being that this brings the information revolution to the common man in his language. Even to the illiterates. Everybody can deal with voice.

Ashish, you are right when you say that it is all about packaging. But those techies are also missing the point that “punching in the accents” require lot of research with real recorded data. For a country like India, this would simply mean years of research. There is a reason Nuance is where it is.

OnMobile has done some good work in speech recognition for indian languages with the help of a language research institute in Mysore. Then there are a couple of companies with genuine core IP, like Prologix with its Hindi text-to-speech engine and Phonologies with its VoiceXML platform.

Ubona is at the right place and the right time with the right offering. Expect to hear more good news about them. :-)

cheers
nilesh

]]> By: Sarbvir Singh http://www.pluggd.in/funding/ubona-series-a-funding-from-capital18-infomedia-integration-2416/comment-page-1/#comment-84123 Sarbvir Singh Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:44:32 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/08/ubona-receives-series-a-funding-from-capital18#comment-84123 Ashish, Very impressed by your insightful comments. Sarbvir Ashish,

Very impressed by your insightful comments.

Sarbvir

]]> By: sumankarthik http://www.pluggd.in/funding/ubona-series-a-funding-from-capital18-infomedia-integration-2416/comment-page-1/#comment-84104 sumankarthik Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:52:53 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/08/ubona-receives-series-a-funding-from-capital18#comment-84104 Niiiiiiice, Ubona is one of the few promising startups with a real tech/IP backbone. Hope they can transition well into the product space. Niiiiiiice, Ubona is one of the few promising startups with a real tech/IP backbone. Hope they can transition well into the product space.

]]> By: Prashant Singh http://www.pluggd.in/funding/ubona-series-a-funding-from-capital18-infomedia-integration-2416/comment-page-1/#comment-84074 Prashant Singh Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:35:30 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/2008/08/ubona-receives-series-a-funding-from-capital18#comment-84074 good move . if Ubona's Tech is good than with Ubona + Infomedia combo Capital 18 can give a good competition to JustDial good move . if Ubona’s Tech is good than with Ubona + Infomedia combo Capital 18 can give a good competition to JustDial

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