AOL Moviefone Enhances Popular Phone Service in Dallas With Speech Recognition Capabilities.Business/Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2000 Mr. Moviefone Joins Seinfeld's Kramer in Saying, "Why Don't You Just Tell Me the Name of the Movie You'd Like to See?" Dallas moviegoers calling AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Moviefone, the leading movie guide and ticketing service, are now able to get movie listings and tickets faster and easier than ever by simply speaking into the phone. AOL Moviefone today announced it has added speech recognition technology developed by Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LU), to enhance its popular interactive telephone service, 444-FILM, in Dallas. Moviegoers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area now can use their own voice to speak to the well-known and frequently imitated voice of the service, Mr. Moviefone ("Hello and Welcome to AOL Moviefone!"). In fact, they can do as Seinfeld's Kramer once suggested in one of the show's most memorable episodes. In the episode, Kramer's phone number is changed to one that is confusingly similar confusingly similar adj. in the law of trade marks, when a trade mark, logo or business name is so close to that of a pre-existing trade mark, logo or name that the public might mis-identify the new one with the old trade mark, logo or name. to New York's 777-FILM, and he imitates Mr. Moviefone to provide unsuspecting callers with movie information. When he is unable to understand their touch-tone entries he asks, "Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you'd like to see?" Now moviegoers can do just that. Since Moviefone's inception in 1989, callers have made selections using the buttons on their touch-tone keypad. The enhanced service Enhanced service is service offered over commercial carrier transmission facilities used in interstate communications, that employs computer processing applications that act on the format, content, code, protocol, or similar aspects of the subscriber's transmitted information; , which will be available in more than 35 major markets over the course of the next year, now enables moviegoers to select a movie or enter additional information, such as their zip code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. or credit card number, by speaking into the phone. This announcement comes on the heels of other recent Moviefone innovations aimed at improving the moviegoing experience, including the launch of the newly redesigned Moviefone.com site, the elimination of the service charge for buying tickets online, and the ability to print movie tickets at home. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. AOL Moviefone CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Andrew Jarecki, "Our new speech recognition feature has generated a great deal of excitement with moviegoers in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , and other cities since our launch in April. Moviegoers love the service because we simultaneously make moviegoing more convenient and present a more fun and entertaining service. We're sure that moviegoers in Dallas will enjoy this new feature as well." "People today are more mobile than ever and are demanding instant access to information," said Dan Furman, president of Lucent Speech Solutions. "Moviefone's latest enhancement is a great example of how Bell Labs technology can be used to give callers the information they need quickly and easily." The heart of the new technology is Lucent's high-density speech recognition board, which provides an economical solution by supporting a large number of simultaneous conversations in a small space. Designed by Bell Labs, Lucent's speech recognition technology is accurate enough to handle a broad range of voice pitches and accents, while drowning out background noise and echoes. Its high-capacity database also supports large vocabularies, which is essential to recognize Moviefone's ever-changing movie titles. Capable of recognizing both spoken words and numerals, the technology can quickly process the credit card information used to purchase movie tickets. About Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill Murray Hill may refer to one of the following places:
About AOL Moviefone AOL Moviefone, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of America Online Inc. (NYSE:AOL), is the leading online and offline movie listing, information, and ticketing service. Through its online service Moviefone.com, and its 777-FILM telephone service, the company provides millions of moviegoers each week with a complete, free directory of movies, showtimes, theater locations, the ability to purchase tickets, and other content of interest to moviegoers. AOL Moviefone is a part of the AOL Interactive Properties Group. |
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