ART Launches smARTspeak XGT On Series 60 Platform; Leading Speech Interface is now available for the World's Leading Smartphones platform.ATLANTA -- ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, a leading provider for voice interface solutions for mobile devices, today launched the smARTspeak(R) XGT XGT External Gamma Target embedded speech interface solution on the Series 60 Platform. Developed by Nokia, Series 60 is the world's leading smartphone platform, with millions of devices already in the market. Featuring the industry's most advanced speech recognition technology for wireless phones and mobile devices, smARTspeak XGT is now available for Series 60 smartphones via ART. The Series 60 smartphone architecture provides users with all the basic and advanced cellular phone functions in a compact device characterized by a large color screen, rich communications, and enhanced applications. The smARTspeak XGT is fully speaker-independent, meaning there is no need for training and speech recognition can be operated by any user "right out of the box." The smARTspeak XGT also adds a new voice feedback capability that gives users audio confirmation of spoken names, numbers, and other commands. This is done by "reading" from the phone's contacts list using ART's advanced text-to-speech technology - delivering a true hands-free and eyes-free solution. "Speaker-independent voice control is the logical next step in the development of the smartphone," said Eran Aharonson, 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. of ART. "With its integration of smARTspeak XGT, the Nokia Series 60 has set a new standard for how smartphones will continue to evolve and we expect the market opportunities to be significant over the next five years and beyond." Nokia created the Series 60 Platform and licenses it to leading cell phone vendors Panasonic, Samsung, Sendo, and Siemens, who together with Nokia make up nearly two-thirds of global cell phone sales. Series 60 devices feature large, high-resolution screens with up to 65,000 colors, at least 4MB of memory, and support thousands of software titles. The advanced features of the smARTspeak XGT offers the possibility of activating all the phone functionality by voice, creating voice user interface for the phone. It enables users of these phones to dial by speaking a person's name or phone number. Giving equally fast and accurate response whether users say "John Smith" or "Dial 1202111002", smARTspeak XGT maintains ART's popular out of-the-box, multi-user experience. In addition, the phone recognizes commands such as "contact" and "redial In telecommunication, an automatic redial is a service feature that allows the user to dial, by depressing a single key or a few keys, the most recent telephone number dialed at that instrument. ", as well as direct access for web pages, and offers trainable digit dialing that can be adjusted to a user's accent. About the Series 60 Platform The Series 60 Platform brings open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced and multi-vendor support to the smartphone market. Series 60 devices offer users powerful features such as Internet browsing, multimedia communications, and audio and video streaming See streaming video and video stream. , plus the ability to play graphics-intensive games and tap into corporate servers to expand the presence and capabilities of enterprise applications. To date, nine Series 60 devices from five manufacturers have been announced. About ART Advanced Recognition Technologies Established in 1990, ART is the acknowledged market leader in embedded speech and handwriting recognition Handwriting recognition is the ability of a computer to receive intelligible handwritten input. The image of the written text may be sensed "off line" from a piece of paper by optical scanning (optical character 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, ART's embedded software-only solutions are deployed in dozens of product lines from industry leaders such as Motorola, LGE LGE LG Electronics LGE Local Government Employers (UK) LGE Laser Guided Energy LGE Louisville Gas & Electric LGE Loop or Ground-start, Exchange (Newbridge) , Xelibri by Siemens, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , BenQ, Pogo, Logitech, AlphaCell, GVC GVC Grand View College (Des Moines, IA) GVC Gruppo Volontariato Civile GVC Global Value Chain GVC Gastrovascular Cavity GVC Global Visibility Capability GVC Goddard Voice Control , Capitel, Qanta, Compal, Inventec, Casio, Maxon, RAKS, Siemens Automotive, Franklin, PaceBlade, Hitachi, Sierra Wireless and others. ART has strategic and technological partnerships with industry leaders including: Texas Instruments, Qualcomm CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. Technologies, Motorola Semiconductors, Intel, Infineon, Agere, ADI, TTPCom, DSPG DSPG Defense Special Projects Group , Ceva, Microsoft, Symbian, UIQ UIQ User Interface IQ (smartphones) , SVOX, Accelent Systems, Renesas, Persay, e-sim, Broadcom, Clarity, Teleca 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 |
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