<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">They kept licensing in place for some of the technology but otherwise sold it off and moved the employees away. They are now part of 24/7.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-offloads-some-speech-focused-assets-employees-to-247/11834">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-offloads-some-speech-focused-assets-employees-to-247/11834</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">I</font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "> met one of the original guys at the company two weeks ago actually, cool guy. We met for drinks and it turned out he lives on my street. Small world. Sounds like TellMe was a really cool company and transitioning it to 24/7 has successfully breathed a lot of life back into it.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Mark Holloway <<a href="mailto:mh@markholloway.com">mh@markholloway.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Sunday, September 30, 2012 3:57 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Ryan Finnesey <<a href="mailto:ryan@finnesey.com">ryan@finnesey.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [VoiceOps] Looking for hosted IVR service provider<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
It doesn't look like Microsoft sold TellMe.
<div><i><h3 class="r"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/tellme/" class="l">Microsoft
<em>Tellme</em> speech innovation</a></h3><div class="s"><div class="f kv"><cite><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/">www.microsoft.com/en-us/</a><b>tellme</b>/</cite></div><span class="st">Microsoft <em>Tellme</em> lets people say what they want and get it.</span></div></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i><div><div>On Sep 27, 2012, at 6:29 PM, Ryan Finnesey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I think they sold off Tellme. <br><br>
Sent from my iPad<br><br>
On Sep 27, 2012, at 6:22 PM, "Mark Holloway" <<a href="mailto:mh@markholloway.com">mh@markholloway.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://angel.com">angel.com</a> is quite popular for Hosted IVR. I believe TellMe (acquired by Microsoft) is still offering Hosted IVR services as well.
<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 27, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">We have a customer who wants to do outbound calling with IVR for surveying purposes. We don't want to support an IVR application ourselves nor do we want the short ACD calling on our network. They've asked me to recommend some companies
who can do this. Since the need is for surveys, not selling, no "press 1" type service is needed however they need some powerful capabilities for question skipping based on responses and randomizing response order.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Their needs aren't huge, probably 10 concurrent when they have a project running and 5000-10000 total dials.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">-- <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Carlos Alvarez<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">TelEvolve<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">602-889-3003<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">VoiceOps mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">VoiceOps mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></span></body></html>