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Loquendo and Nu Echo announce partnership to expand PS offering

Loquendo and Nu Echo are proud to announce today the launch of a new partnership to provide a complete offering for the North American market, from speech technologies to professional services. This new partnership enables the companies to offer North American customers speech application development, dialog design, porting and tuning services to complement Loquendo’s existing portfolio of highest quality multilingual technologies, for a simpler yet more effective and enhanced integration of speech.

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Get two NuGram IDE Pro licenses free when you purchase a grammar development course

Learn how to systematically deliver high-quality, high performance grammars by fully leveraging the features and tools available in NuGram IDE. Supported by hands-on exercises and numerous examples, Effective Grammar Development with NuGram IDE provides a breadth of knowledge, best practices, and tips and tricks that have shown their effectiveness at addressing the main challenges of grammar development and at delivering better grammars faster.

And if you order our on-site grammar development course before October 31st, you will get two licenses of NuGram IDE Professional Edition entirely free! There is only one catch: course must be given before December 31st, 2010. Contact us for details.

Learn grammar development from the grammar experts!

In response to many requests from NuGram users, Nu Echo is pleased to announce that it’s now offering a two-day, on-site grammar development course.

This course – Effective Grammar Development with NuGram IDE – teaches participants how to systematically deliver high-quality, high-performance grammars by fully leveraging the features and tools available in NuGram IDE. Using hands-on exercises and numerous examples, the course provides a breadth of knowledge, best practices, and tips and tricks that have shown their effectiveness at addressing the main challenges of grammar development and at delivering better grammars faster.

Topics covered include:

  • Fundamental speech recognition and grammar concepts
  • The ABNF Grammar Syntax
  • Semantic tags – SISR, pre-SISR, swi-semantics, GSL, Nuance extensions.
  • NuGram IDE Tools – ABNF editor, Coverage tool, sentence interpreter, sentence generation,
    sentence explorer, semantics stepper, grammar conversion tools, etc.
  • The Grammar Development Process – Importance of a rigorous and systematic process, how
    NuGram IDE supports it, integration into a build process, etc.
  • Tips and Tricks – Style issues, guidelines for writing semantic tags, common sources of errors and how to detect and fix them
  • Dynamic Grammars – Use cases, traditional approaches, NuGram support (dynamic grammar
    language directives, testing/debugging tools, NuGram Server)
  • Managing phonetic pronunciations
  • Special Topics – Ambiguities, compound words, decoys, disfluencies (voiced pauses, false starts, corrections, etc.), grammar weights, Nuance-specific features.

You have special topics that you’d like us to cover? No problem. We can customize the course to fit your specific requirements. Contact us for details.