ART's smARTspeak XG Brings Its Speaker Independent Speech Solutions to Texas Instruments' TCS Wireless Chipsets.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2003

ART's Revolutionary Phoneme-Based smARTspeak XG Now Available On

TI's Newest GSM/GPRS Platforms

ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc., global leaders in natural User Interface technologies for the mobile world, today announced the porting of its revolutionary smARTspeak XG(TM) speech recognition solution to the latest additions to Texas Instruments' TCS family of 'antenna-to-applications' chipset solutions, designed to allow rapid development of 2.5G handsets and other wireless devices.

These include the newest GSM/GPRS additions to TI's TCS family, the TCS2600, TCS2200 and TCS2010.

Bringing the first ever phonemic speech recognition solution to wireless mobile devices, ART's breakthrough smARTspeak XG provides speaker independent name dialing and other dynamic command functions. This gives users near ultimate flexibility in the way they can structure voice commands. From now on, "Call John Smith at his office" and "John Smith -- office" both provide the same swift and accurate response from smARTspeak XG. The solution available for TI's Wireless TCS application suite also includes the full range of modular features found in ART's successful smARTspeak NG recognition suite.

"As a provider of innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements, we are constantly updating the technologies that we incorporate into our latest market offerings," says Tom Pollard, Texas Instrument's WW Chipset Marketing Director. "We are confident that our customers will welcome this new addition to TI's wireless application suite, which will allow our customers to effortlessly create voice user interfaces in a competitive time to market."

"After more than a decade of creating ground-breaking speech recognition solutions, we are delighted that TI has chosen ART's smARTspeak XG for its newest GSM/GPRS additions to the TCS family," said Mrs. Efrat Ramati, ART's Director, Business Development & Sales. "We are sure that TI's customers will find that smARTspeak XG not only provides feature-rich functionality for new 2.5G products that can be brought quickly to market today -- but that it is also fully tailored to make the seamless migration to future 3G functionality."

More about the smARTspeak XG

ART's latest technological innovation, the smARTspeak XG is an embedded, speaker independent name dialing solution -- the first introduced for mass-market deployment. Based on phonemic identification, the dynamic smARTspeak XG needs no training for instant name dialing, no matter how users structure their command sentences. An evolution of the earlier smARTspeak NG platform, the smARTspeak XG incorporates the same modular feature-rich functionality of speaker dependent name dialing, speaker independent continuous digit dialing, speaker independent command & control and trainable continuous digit dialing for custom languages.

Allowing near infinite out of the box freedom, smARTspeak XG, being truly speaker independent, now means the same device can respond with equal accuracy to the commands of multiple users -- thus taking technology another step towards the ultimate user experience.

More About Texas Instruments' TCS family

TI's TCS family of "antenna-to-applications" wireless chipset solutions gives mobile device manufacturers a platform for each market segment from voice-centric handsets to high-end multimedia smartphones and PDAs. Each chipset comes with a complete, manufacturing-ready hardware and software reference design, as well as worldwide technical support from wireless design experts, thereby drastically reducing time-to-market. With the newest GSM/GPRS additions to the TCS family, the TCS2600, TCS2200 and TCS2010, manufacturers of cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, Internet appliances and other types of wireless devices are able to quickly bring new 2.5G products to market today and take advantage of a seamless migration to 3G functionality in the future.

More About ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc.

Established in 1990, ART is the acknowledged market leader in embedded speech and handwriting recognition software for mass-market mobile devices. With a decade of award-winning innovation behind it, ART develops and markets technologically superior solutions for the control and command of mobile devices through the human voice and natural handwriting. The Company's proprietary technologies provide next-generation user interface solutions for cellular handsets, smartphones, mobile communicators, PDAs and handhelds, and automotive systems.

Today, embedded software-only solutions from ART are deployed in dozens of product lines from industry leaders such as Panasonic, LGE, Xelibri, Mitsubishi, NEC, Logitech, GVC, AlphaCell, RAKS, Quanta, Compal, Inventec, Acer, Casio, Maxon, Siemens Automotive, Franklin, and PaceBlade. ART has strategic and technological partnerships with numerous industry leaders, including Texas Instruments, Motorola Semiconductors, Intel, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, Agere Systems, Analog Devices, DSP Group, ParthusCeva, Microsoft, UIQ, Symbian, TTPCom, SVOX, Phone-Or, Persay, e-SIM, OTM Technologies, Pegasus, and others.

Based in the United States with sales offices on the East and West Coasts, ART maintains a wholly owned Israeli subsidiary that conducts research and development. Additional information about ART is available at: http://www.artcomp.com.

smARTspeak XG and smARTspeak NG are registered trademarks of ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.