ART and UIQ Technology Announce Cooperation on Speech Recognition.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

3GSM World Congress 2003

Hall 2, Stand D40

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2003

UIQ Technology Will Use ART's Expertise in Advanced Recognition

Technologies for Closer Integration of 3rd Party Speech

Recognition Solutions on UIQ User Interface

Today ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc., global leaders in natural User Interface technologies, announced the cooperation with UIQ Technology, leading developer of pen-based user interface platforms for Symbian OS based mobile phones.

The cooperation, where ART is contributing with their expertise on advanced recognition technologies, will result in a closer integration of 3rd party speech recognition solutions on UIQ.

In addition, ART announced that it will be hosting UIQ Technology in its Booth #D40, Hall 2 at Cannes' 3GSM World Congress, February 18-21. There, the two companies will be demonstrating the first example of their joint cooperation, which will be ART's recognition technologies, integrated into UIQ in use on the new Sony Ericsson P800 mobile handset.

UIQ Technology is pleased with the positive development on the agreement for future co-operation between UIQ Technology and ART. "The expertise on advanced recognition technology is essential for a closer integration of 3rd party speech recognition solutions in the UIQ user interface. We are committed to provide our licensees with the best applications and therefore it is key to establish strong partnerships with key industry players," said Tobias Todt, Partner Manager of UIQ Technology.

"We are confident that UIQ's global customers will be delighted with the comprehensive range of our advanced speech and handwriting recognition solutions," said Efrat Ramati, ART's Director of Business Development and Sales, "By enhancing UIQ's increasingly popular platform, they will help maintain the high standard of technology UIQ offers their customers."

More About ART's Speech and Handwriting Recognition Technologies

ART's latest technological innovation, smARTspeak XG is an embedded, speaker independent name dialing solution 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. Thus 'Call John Smith in his office' or 'John Smith - office' both provide the same accurate response. Evolving from the smARTspeak NG platform, 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.

Amongst the most advanced handwriting recognition solutions available, ART's natural handwriting recognizers intuitively accept users' own natural writing -- doing away with the need to learn new characters or artificial symbols. Noise robust for inaccurate or 'trembling' script, they are fast and accurate, providing continuous on-the-fly recognition even when letters are written over one another. SimpliWrite(TM) is a feature-rich recognizer supporting over 30 languages that allows the user to add special ways of writing characters and symbols. smARTwriter(R) is a self-trainable, complete word or sentence recognizer that integrates case-differentiated letters, numbers, symbols and punctuation with no operational actions required to switch between them. It also adjusts to special handwriting styles.

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. After a decade of award winning innovation, today ART develops and markets technologically superior solutions for the control and command of mobile devices by the human voice and natural handwriting. ART'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 Panasonic, LGE, Mitsubishi, NEC, Logitech, AlphaCell, GVC, Quanta, Compal, Inventec, Acer, Casio, Maxon, Siemens Automotive, Franklin, PaceBlade and others. ART has strategic and technological partnerships with industry leaders including: Texas Instruments, Motorola Semiconductors, Intel, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, Agere Systems, Analog Devices, DSP Group, ParthusCeva, Microsoft, 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(TM), smARTspeak NG(TM), SimpliWrite(TM) and smARTwriter(R) are all trademarks of ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc. Names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

About UIQ Technology AB

UIQ Technology develops and licenses world-class user interface platforms for Symbian OS based mobile phones and support bringing enchanting mobile phones to market. UIQ Technology AB, established 1998 in Ronneby Sweden, is a fully owned subsidiary to Symbian Ltd. The company today has over 90 employees.

Within the group of current UIQ licensees, Sony Ericsson officially launched their first UIQ based device, the P800 in the end of 2002.

For more information, please visit www.uiq.com.