theBoom’s Wall Street Legacy
theBoom’s unique, patented technology was forged in the fire of extremely noisy environments of Wall Street trading floors. We, the creators of theBoom (UmeVoice, Inc.), were developing speech recognition software for Wall Street traders. We faced two major challenges:

theWolf The Wolf solves the problem presented by background  noise - in this case from the trading floor - which can obscure the speaker's voice, making it impossible for the voice recognition system to correctly process speech. Using patented UmeVoice technology, The Wolf "devours" background noise. A client on the phone with the trader will experience perfectly clear sound, just as the recognition software does. The Wolf is an elegant, acoustically (i.e.shape) based solution. It does not require any rewiring. Simply unscrew the mouthpiece on the (G3 type) handset, and screw on The Wolf in its place!

Speech Recognition UmeVoice is on the road to perfecting a very intuitive VUI for the desktop and eventually for the exploding world of wireless computing. The VUI in the UmeVoice infrastructure currently consists of primarily graphical cues to the user. Significantly, however it is based on a simple paradigm: "Say it, See it, and Send it." The user speaks commands to the computer, looks to see that what they have spoken has appeared on the screen, and then sends or enters the information with a verbal command. Eventually more sound and voice response from the computer will be developed for this system. Learn more about our speech recognition system

Extremely Noisy Environment: As anyone who has used speech recognition software knows, background noise is highly undesirable. For that matter, anyone who has used a phone to exchange critical information in real time knows how detrimental background noise can be.

Mission Critical Environment: In addition, anyone that has worked in or even visited a trading floor of a stock exchange knows how noisy the environment is. They would also know how high-pressure and stress-ridden the activities can be. The activities often include transactions involving very large sums of money, making them extremely mission-critical. This meant that the speech recognition application would have to be extremely accurate in order to add value to the traders’ activities.

A solution was required that allowed us to get very high speech recognition accuracy in such environments. Software engineering and linguistic expertise only got us so far towards acceptable accuracy. We had to have a solution that reduced background noise effectively in order to get the accuracy up to acceptable levels.

How theBoom’s technology was invented
We explored all the commercially available solutions for noise cancellation but none of them gave us acceptable speech recognition performance. Our scientists tackled this problem and invented an innovative acoustic solution that was effective even in very high noise environments (such as Blackhawk helicopter noise, Jet engine noise, Wall street trading floor noise). This solution was initially incorporated into telephone handsets which were connected to phone systems as well as desktop computer systems on trading floors. We achieved remarkable levels of success with this solution, obtaining very clear audio even in noise levels of 100 dB. Using our noise Canceling technology, Wall Street traders were able to communicate clearly from these noisy environments without having to repeat themselves and with dramatically reduced levels of transmitted noise.

As a result of our success, our speech recognition and noise cancellation products were able to add significant value to large Wall Street clients including Goldman Sachs & Company, Union Bank of Switzerland Warburg, Credit Suisse First Boston and Merrill Lynch and Company.

The technology was miniaturized to fit on a headset, and theBoom was born. theBoom is now available in several models : theBoom v4, theBoom “O”, theBoom “E”, theBoom Quiet and theBoom “C” that combine varying fit preferences and additional features.

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