Voicea

Voicea — the American  developer of the voice assistant for video conferences. The company develops the EVA AI system (Enterprise Voice Assistant) which helps to take notes during the meetings and meetings on the Internet. The virtual assistant writes a talk and allows to create the list of the most significant moments of a conference. Users can give to EVA voice commands that the assistant marked important fragments of an action.

History

2019: Cisco purchased Voicea

At the beginning of August, 2019 Cisco announced acquisition of Voicea for the purpose of improvement of the products for joint work. The cost of the transaction of the company was decided not to be disclosed.

In three years of work Voicea attracted in total $20 million investments, including from Cisco and Alphabet.

Cisco is going to use Voicea technologies for expansion of functionality of the corporate voice assistant to Webex Assistant.

Cisco purchased the developer of the voice assistant for video conferences

If to integrate these two powerful engines [Voicea and Webex Assistant], then the "clever" assistant for everyone conferences will turn out — the head of department of Cisco Team Collaboration Group Sri Srinivasan says. — Users at conferences can browse live text interpretation, publish effective reports and the main data from actions and also write and automate actions. Workflows can automatically be transmitted through voice commands in such systems as Salesforce.

This purchase  will be approved with  the strategy of Cisco directed to implementation of cognitive cooperation from   an ispolzovaniyemiya  of imashinny training for improvement of video and  voice communications.

It is going to close the transaction on sale of Voicea of Cisco corporation in September, 2019. After that the startup will join division of Cisco Team Collaboration Group.^[1]

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