Interesting article from SpeechTechnology “With Hard Work Comes Prosperity”. Published by Leonard Klie, posted Jan 10, 2010. Sweet for Self-Service The financial results seen by these companies are typical of the speech industry in general, which by and large weathered the financial storm much better than most other industries. And inside the speech industry, perhaps no segment fared better than the interactive voice response (IVR) market. “2009 was a great year for self-service—both voice as well as Web-based” says Donna Fluss, president of DMG Consulting. “Even with the recession, there was a lot of investment in self-service IVR.” Fluss expected the total IVR market to reach $2 billion by the end of the year. Analyst firm Frost & Sullivan was also bullish on IVR. At the start of the year, when the economy seemed at its worst, the firm surveyed call […]