IVR Technology Group and ICSA have revealed this week they will be hosting ICSA's 2011 Annual Conference that will take place from September 18- 21^st at the Omni La Mansion del Rio in San Antonio, Texas .

IVR Technology Group powers an innovative suite of Interactive Voice Response and SMS phone automation services that can increase sales, drive down costs and elevate the level of customer conversations.

“ITG has been a tremendous supporter of the ICSA and we are thrilled to be partnering with them again as we promote what is the signature event for Customer Service Professionals,” said Bill Gessert, president of the ICSA, in a statement.

Just this week, Yap (News - Alert), a provider of a cloud-based speech recognition platform expanded the platform to now include MetroPCS Spanish language voicemail to text service.

As Spanish is currently the most widely used language, spoken by over third of the population in both California and Texas and an astounding 35 million people in the United States, Yap quickly realized that the company needed to use its speech recognition technology to power this language.

MetroPCS’ Spanish language Voice Mail to Text service has allowed for millions of MetroPCS customers to simply read Spanish translated voicemail messages.

“Spanish language support is a natural evolution for Yap,” said Marcello Typrin, vice president of products, Yap in a press release. “There is a tremendous market opportunity for transcribing Spanish voicemails into text, and Yap’s platform provides the necessary high accuracy and fast turn-around time.”

As the week came to an end and the weekend was almost in reach, E Source released the ‘E Source (News - Alert) Review of Northern American Electric and Gas Company, IVRs: 2011’. This report stated that the interactive voice response systems (IVRs) that were powered by electric and gas companies over the years have increased customer satisfaction rates.

 The top-rated Canadian utility IVR is Union Gas Limited, while the most highly rated electric and gas company IVRs belong to Duke Energy (News - Alert), Portland General Electric, Florida Power & Light Co., NorthWestern Energy, Arizona Public Service, and Cleco, the company has stated.

In addition, the company recently launched a website that can help users to more quickly find energy efficiency rebate information and incentive information for any location within the U.S. and Canada.