The Guide to Voice Solutions in Warehouse Environments (Strategic Focus)
Datamonitor
February 26, 2009 129 Pages - SKU: DFMN2150965
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Introduction
Worker productivity and business processes are being highly scrutinized and many businesses are becoming more reliant on technology to help improve the bottom line through productivity gains and cost savings. One of these technologies businesses are investing in is voice picking the hands-free technology that uses speech recognition with WMS for order picking activity.
Scope- Market dynamics in the voice picking solution space
- Impact of new technology trends and industry standards in voice picking
- Evolution of voice picking technology
- Snapshot of the competitive landscape in voice picking
Highlights
Spending is expected to increase as key drivers for investment and trends within the market further materialize creating a more favorable environment for voice picking solutions in the enterprise.
In 2007 the thin client deployment model for voice picking entered the market representing a potential disruptor in this space. Voice picking, for the most part, is implemented on thick clients, where the speech recognition is performed on a mobile computing device.
Reasons to Purchase- Understand key market trends and drivers shaping voice picking solutions in the enterprise.
- Learn of market sizing and forecasts for spending in voice picking solutions from 2008 to 2014.
- Become familiar with key vendor messages and differentiators across major vendors in the market.
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- Overview
- Catalyst
- Summary
- Key Messages
- The market for voice picking solutions is poised for growth through 2014
- Key drivers for investments in voice picking solutions
- Trends shaping the industry
- Evolution of voice picking solutions in the enterprise
- Table of Contents
- Table of figures
- Table of tables
- Market Opportunity
- The voice picking value chain
- The market for voice picking solutions is poised for growth through 2014
- Key drivers for investments in voice picking solutions
- Increased productivity and accuracy
- Reduced costs
- Improved worker safety
- Trends shaping the industry
- Proliferation of wireless networks
- Improvements in speech recognition quality and mobile device choice
- Combining speech recognition with other AIDC technologies
- Rise of speaker independent speech recognition technology
- Entry of thin clients and open standards
- Advances in noise cancellation
- Conclusion
- Technology Evolution
- Evolution of voice picking solutions in the enterprise
- The pioneering days of voice picking
- Moving away from proprietary hardware
- Speaker independent speech recognition enters the scene
- Entry of thin clients
- The importance of real-time integration
- Conclusion
- Competitive Landscape
- Vendor profiles
- Datria
- Genesta
- Lucas Systems
- topVOX
- Vanguard Voice Systems
- Vocollect
- Voxware
- Conclusion
- Go to Market
- Recommendations for vendors
- Humanize your solution
- Diversify your channels
- Improve flexibility by offering increased choice in speech recognition
- Recommendations for enterprises
- Avoid vendor lock-in
- Consider deploying a solution with real-time integration capabilities
- Consider deploying voice outside the four walls of the warehouse
- APPENDIX
- Definitions
- Auto ID data capture (AIDC)
- Speaker dependent (SD)
- Speaker independent (SInd)
- Speech recognition
- VoiceXML
- Warehouse management systems (WMS)
- Methodology
- A note on revenue figures
- Compound annual growth rate
- Rounding errors
- Further reading
- The Technology Knowledge Center Writing team
- Datamonitor consulting
- Disclaimer
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Areas in the enterprise where speech applications are used today
- Table 2: Global spending on voice picking solutions, 2008-2014
- Table 3: Selective list of vendors in the voice picking landscape
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: The voice picking value chain
- Figure 2: Global spending on voice picking solutions, 2008-2014
- Figure 3: Evolution of voice picking solutions in the enterprise
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