My Industry and Firm Analysis

[edit] Industry Analysis

Speech Technology Industry
Text-To-Speech (TTS) and Speech-To-Text (STT) segments
Dominated by three companies:

Niche market, but has potential to grow.

Information system is your average IS

Mainly geared towards internal support and customer data collection and retention
Supporting architecture for any customer-facing interaction (i.e. web pages, etc.)
Supporting architecture for any necessary voice and/or data transmission and/or processing

Wizzard Speech Products

distribute AT&T and IBM’s solutions
distribute SDKs that assist in incorporating Text-To-Speech (TTS) and/or Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) features within product line(s)

Wizzard Speech Services

developer support for the SDKs
Voice2Text Service, an out-sourced service for those who have a large amount of voice audio & wish to convert them into text files.

Wizzard Media

over 85 million podcast downloads per month
is the worlds largest distributor of podcasts
value proposition is the ability to capture and analyze user tastes and trends in real-time, and the ability to utilize that data in developing and deploying targeted advertisements with each pod-cast.
revenue is made from charging to deploy per pod-cast per targeted audience.

Financial Information (as of 12/31/07)

Information System architecture dependent on the division, but both roles exist

Wizzard Speech Products & Services: Support for external customers, & both Support and Enabler for internal customers
Wizzard Media: Support and Enabler for external customers