Telisma, a spinoff of France Telecom founded in 2000, is a leading provider of speech recognition technology with offices in Paris and Lannion, France, and sales offices worldwide. The company offers a range of speech solutions tailored for various applications, including online appliances, offline cars and homes, and call center speech analytics. Telisma serves a diverse clientele, including major corporations like Orange, Prosodie Cap Gemini, banks, insurance firms, and travel companies. The company operates in the global speech recognition market, providing high-performance, low-resource solutions built on industry standards like VoiceXML to avoid vendor lock-in. Telisma generates revenue through the sale and licensing of its speech recognition technology and related services. The business model focuses on providing customizable and scalable solutions that empower clients to fine-tune their language libraries without incurring additional professional fees. Telisma's technology supports over 40 languages, making it a versatile choice for international clients.

Keywords: speech recognition, VoiceXML, call centers, online appliances, offline solutions, language support, customizable, scalable, high-performance, low-resource.