ASAT '98 Developers Workshop Gives Advice to Software Developers on Pitfalls That Emerging Businesses Face.KEY BISCAYNE This article is about the island named Key Biscayne. For the village on the island of the same name, see Key Biscayne, Florida. For the tennis tournament sometimes referred to as Key Biscayne, see Miami Masters. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 1998--Richard Grant advises speech software developers on pitfalls for new companies in the emerging voice application product industry segment. He addressed speech industry developers in a technical workshop Tuesday at the ASAT ASAT abbr. antisatellite Adj. 1. ASAT - of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit; "antisatellite weapons" antisatellite '98 Conference in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. ASAT is a unique, multi-market conference offering specialized sessions for people interested in telephony or PCs and consumer products. "You can tailor the conference to your interests by choosing your sessions," said William Meisel, president, TMA TMA Turnaround Management Association TMA Texas Medical Association TMA Transportation Management Association TMA Training and Management Assistance (a component of OHRD, which is a component of OWR) TMA Tooling & Manufacturing Association Associates and ASAT Conference Program Chair. "We've made this particularly easy by grouping sessions by product category and by separating general/marketing sessions from sessions on product development. We've put the most technical sessions in an optional developer's workshop." Using a "Late Night Top 10" format, Richard Grant Richard Grant (born 1952) is a science fiction and fantasy author. List of Works
SohoTalk ("the company") is an emerging leader in the human- centered, speech-aware, hands-free software application and related services business. SohoTalk's products will enable small and home offices to integrate their productivity applications with the power of the user's voice. SohoTalk's centerpiece product, ChatterBox, will be a suite of business-productivity applications that will provide small business with a word processor, spreadsheet and database that use two core speech technologies, speech recognition and speech synthesis speech synthesis Generation of speech by artificial means, usually by computer. Production of sound to simulate human speech is referred to as low-level synthesis. High-level synthesis deals with the conversion of written text or symbols into an abstract representation of . SohoTalk's technologies give the small- and home-office (Soho) business owner the ability to augment the existing graphic interface while protecting the original investment. The ability to navigate within the exchange information between these applications will be part of SohoTalk's core technology. The company's management believes speech technology is in transition from niche application and research systems to full-blown deployment. As this transition takes place, the technology is changing rapidly to meet user and application demands. The company's aim is to develop and market the best human- centered, speech-aware, hands-free/eyes-free desktop applications in the industry and play a leadership role in the rapidly growing voice-recognition industry. On Wednesday July 15, BASC BASc abbr. 1. Bachelor of Agricultural Science 2. Bachelor of Applied Science announced the initial sale of 250,000 shares of common stock in SohoTalk Inc. at $4 per share in a Rule 504 offering. All 250,000 shares are being sold by the company. SohoTalk is one of five wholly owned subsidiaries 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. that will create, manufacture and distribute speech-aware software applications under the BASC banner. The company intends to use the net proceeds Net Proceeds The amount received after all costs are deducted from the sale of a piece of property or security. Notes: In the case of an investor selling a security, net proceeds represent the proceeds from the sale minus any trading costs (i.e. commissions). from the offering for capital expenditures, product development, sales and marketing, and general working capital purposes. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state. The offer is made only by memorandum, copies of which may be obtained from Bay Area Science Center, 55 Ocean Lane Drive, Unit 1033, Key Biscayne, Fla. 33149; telephone 305/361-1079. Visit Bay Area Science Center at its Web site, http://members.xoom.com/BayAreaSciCt. CONTACT: Hanson & Schwam Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , Beverly Hills, Calif. Robert Millet, 310/248-4488 |
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