http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-522060 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:15:39 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-522060 [...] and Google have their own in-house voice recognition technologies. Remember Microsoft bought TellMe for about $800 million, back in March 2007. Google used now-defunct service like 1-800-Goog-411 to build its own voice recognition [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137834 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:16:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137834 [...] later vice president of application engineering at recognized technical leader Tellme, which was acquired by Microsoft for a reputed $800M in [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137833 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:46:42 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137833 [...] later vice president of application engineering at recognized technical leader Tellme, which was acquired by Microsoft for a reputed $800M in [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137832 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:26:51 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137832 [...] MacSpeech, Nuance and Vlingo. Microsoft seems especially well-positioned in the space. The company picked up startup Tellme in a 2007 deal reportedly worth more than $800 million, and it is wisely using cloud-based [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137831 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:01:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137831 [...] and customer service agents, Nuance is defending its speech recognition turf against Google and Microsoft, both of which are making inroads into voice recognition [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137830 Wed, 13 May 2009 20:17:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137830 [...] covered the speech-recognition company from when it was started to the day it became part of Microsoft after the software giant bought it for a rumored $800 million. Microsoft has plans to use voice as a mobile phone interface. Mike and Angus went through some [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137829 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:23:52 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137829 [...] effort is the direct result of Microsoft’s purchase of TellMe in 2007. The independent subsidiary still offers their service to other platforms as well: about a year ago [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137828 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:26:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137828 [...] other uses and ambitions. I suggested that the plan reminded me of an updated version of TellMe (acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for 800 million) – he didn’t [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137827 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:40:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137827 [...] other uses and ambitions. I suggested that the plan reminded me of an updated version of TellMe (acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for 800 million) – he didn’t [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137826 Wed, 21 May 2008 16:04:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137826 [...] is a voice services company specializing in speech recognition. Press Release | TechCrunch | GigaOm| Mashable | [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137825 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:05:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137825 [...] whopping valuation makes a bit more sense if you consider that players ranging from Microsoft (it bought TellMe) to Nuance Communications (it’s bought a lot) are all trying to crack the speech-to-text [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137824 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:07:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137824 [...] whopping valuation makes a bit more sense if you consider that players ranging from Microsoft (it bought TellMe) to Nuance Communications (it’s bought a lot) are all trying to crack the speech-to-text [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137823 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:58:42 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137823 [...] has it’s 411 Service. Microsoft recently bought Tellme, a speech-based Internet services provider to power Local Search. For those of us who’ve [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137822 Tue, 22 May 2007 22:29:29 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137822 [...] software, and the deal was driven by Steve Ballmer himself, according to both News.com and GigaOm. Speech recognition software has been a pet project at Microsoft for a long time (Bill Gates has [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137821 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:37:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137821 [...] recently acquired by Microsoft to enter the Free411 market. The price tag was rumored to be around $800 million. Tellme claims to answer 80% of the automated 411 calls in the U.S., serving 40 million users each [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137820 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:07:03 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-buys-tellme/#comment-137820 [...] And at the same time, Microsoft purchased TellMe for a measly $800 million. TellMe is a voice recognition mobile search application that Microsoft hopes will replace the need to call 411. TellMe’s technology last year also made $100 million running large call centers like FedEx&#82…. [...]

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