BeVocal was founded March 1999. Network managers, Java programmers and people with speech experience, such as a background in linguistics.
Revenue starts with product placement and ends in a sale.
For example, if someone getting flight information wants to make a reservation or book a rental car, they can act on that immediately, and we make a cut on the transaction. There are a few other start-ups looking to do the same thing we're doing, but we're mainly worried about the phone companies. They own the infrastructure, and they've been looking at speech recognition for a long time. But we're a little busier now because we're preparing for the launch. A normal day is 10 hours.