AVSR

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.avistar.com
Employees: 50
Employee growth: (32.4%)

If geography prevents you from concluding business with a firm handshake, Avistar Communications is ready to furnish the next-best thing. The company provides communication software and hardware used to equip communications networks with video capabilities. Its systems enable videoconferencing, content creation, video broadcasting, and data sharing between users over telephony networks and the Internet. Avistar markets its products primarily to corporations in the financial services industry, including UBS Investment Bank, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase. Chairman Gerald Burnett owns about 43% of the company.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $8.8M
One year growth: (26.8%)
Net income: ($6.4)M

Officers:
Chairman: Gerald J. Burnett
President, CEO and Director: Robert F. (Bob) Kirk
CTO: J. Chris Lauwers

Competitors:
Emblaze-VCON
Polycom
TANDBERG

(Audio Visual Speech Recognition) Using lip reading software to enhance speech recognition. In noisy environments where a camera can be included, AVSR improves the computer's ability to recognize the speaker's words by visually tracking lip movement and coordinating it with the sounds. See ASR and Open CV.

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