Net2Phone offers speech recognition service

Net2Phone, which provides phone calls over the Web, has announced a new speech recognition service for e-commerce Web sites and businesses. Banks or other companies that subscribe to the Net2Phone service can, for example, give customers the ability to check their account balances by speaking into the phone, rather than pressing the touch-tone buttons on the phone. Net2Phone has also invested in HeyAnita, which makes voice recognition software.