For the sake of this report, the automated speech recognition market includes speech recognition applications and products but does not include speech recognition engines. This report contains a detailed market landscape broken down by geography and end user. It also contains comprehensive drivers, challenges, and a vendor landscape in addition to detailed profiles of key vendors.

Despite continuing to grow, this market has not reached the exponential growth predicted by earlier estimates. This can be attributed to apprehensive customers, unavailability of technology in some regions and high pricing pressure on mobile devices.  High R&D expenses have also added to this.                                                                                                                                                 

Key Market Drivers include:

• Success stories of early adopters pushing peer companies that continue to use manual processes
• Growing use of biometrics for secure identification purposes
• Advancements in speech recognition technologies that have made it more accurate and robust
• Clear cost savings across industries with the use of speech recognition applications       
                                          
The report forecasts the current size and annual growth rate of the market.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Executive Summary
2. Introduction
3. Market Landscape
4. Vendor Landscape
5. Usage Scenarios
6. Buying Criteria
7. Market Growth Drivers
8. Drivers and their impact
9. Market Challenges
10. Market Trends
11. Key Vendor Analysis
11.1 Nuance Communications
11.2 Loquendo
11.3 LumenVox
          
List of Exhibits

Exhibit 1: Automatic Speech Recognition Applications Market Size (2009 – 2013)
Exhibit 2: Market Share by Geography
Exhibit 3: Market Share by Customer Segments
Exhibit 4: Market Share of vendors in Automatic Speech Recognition Applications Market   Exhibit 5: Acquisitions in the last decade
Exhibit 6: Industries serviced by Nuance
Exhibit 7: Acquisitions done by Nuance