The Nortel Speech Server (formerly known as Periphonics Speech Processing Platform) in

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is a

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system that was originally developed by

Nortel Nortel Networks Corporation (Nortel), formerly Northern Telecom Limited, was a Canadian multinational telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturer headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in Montreal, Quebec, ...

. Following the bankruptcy of Nortel, it is now sold by

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. The system is primarily used for large vocabulary

speech recognition Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the ...

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text-to-speech Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal langua ...

, and

speaker verification Speaker recognition is the identification of a person from characteristics of voices. It is used to answer the question "Who is speaking?" The term voice recognition can refer to ''speaker recognition'' or speech recognition. Speaker verification ...

. The Nortel Speech Server was based on the Periphonics

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platform. The original OSCAR Platform was based upon Solaris servers. The current range of Speech Servers is

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based. Nortel Speech Server is a component of the MPS 500, MPS 1000, and ICP platforms. On MPS systems, it may be used to stream prerecorded audio.

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Speech ServerFrost & Sullivan Recognizes Nortel Leadership in the IVR Market
Nortel products Speech recognition software {{Compu-hardware-stub

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