AccessLine Technologies announces voice activated AccessLine services; Agreement entered with ALTech for speech recognition technology.BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 1996--AccessLine Technologies and Applied Language Technologies (ALTech) announced today that they have entered an agreement whereby ALTech's advanced speech recognition software will be incorporated into the AccessLine System(r). AccessLine(r) subscribers will now be able to control their AccessLine personal number service with conversational spoken commands. "ALTech provides an extremely powerful and flexible speech recognition core technology," said Fred Epler, senior vice president of advanced technology for AccessLine. "The large vocabulary and speaker-independent, natural language capabilities of ALTech are what we sought before developing a voice activated AccessLine System user interface. Also, ALTech's high level application building blocks, or 'dialog modules,' that manage the 'conversation' between the system and the caller, allow us to develop applications in record time and get to market fast." AccessLine is the leading provider of personal number services and the AccessLine System is the most widely deployed system of its kind in the world today. With nine years of commercial deployment experience with carrier networks and end user customers, AccessLine has refined its existing user interface many times over. The new voice recognition capability takes this refinement to a new height, providing customers a truly simple intuitive interface that responds to simple conversational speech patterns. AL Tech's phonetic pho·net·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to phonetics. 2. Representing the sounds of speech with a set of distinct symbols, each designating a single sound. , speech-understanding software allows end users flexibility in giving instructions or commands. For example, a user might say, direct my calls to my home until 3 o'clock, or direct calls home for 2 hours, and the system will glean glean v. gleaned, glean·ing, gleans v.intr. To gather grain left behind by reapers. v.tr. 1. To gather (grain) left behind by reapers. 2. the pieces of information necessary to activate the correct instruction. Any command or request for information a user previously made through pressing keys on the touchtone keypad A small keyboard or supplementary keyboard keys; for example, the keys on a calculator or the number/cursor cluster on a computer keyboard. See programmable keypad. may now be spoken: direct my calls to my office until 10:00 p.m. -- send my calls to the board room speakerphone speak·er·phone n. A telephone or telephone attachment that contains both a loudspeaker and a microphone, allowing several persons to participate in a call at the same time without the telephone receiver being held. Noun 1. -- listen to my messages -- make a call -- forward all faxes to 555-1234. "This kind of ease-of-use and simplicity allows us to give end user customers what I believe they really hope for in a voice activated service, and something that will propel pro·pel tr.v. pro·pelled, pro·pel·ling, pro·pels To cause to move forward or onward. See Synonyms at push. [Middle English propellen, from Latin us further down the road to becoming a mass market product," added Epler. "We are very pleased to have been chosen by AccessLine to provide advanced speech recognition capabilities for their personal number service," said Bill Ledingham, vice president of marketing for ALTech. "AccessLine is a recognized leader in bringing 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; offerings to the telecommunications market. Our partnership will allow AccessLine to deliver unprecedented functionality to their customers and keep them positioned at the forefront of the industry." The voice activated AccessLine System provides busy professionals one of the best "personal assistant" solutions in the market today at a fraction of the cost of other products. Beta available early 1997. AccessLine will be unveiling the new voice activated AccessLine System user interface at PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. '96 in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden at the San Francisco Convention Center, Sept. 19-21, booth no. 1637. About AccessLine Technologies AccessLine Technologies is the originator of the One Person, One Number(r) technology and was first to market with the single multi-function platform that delivers personal number functionality to service providers and their customers. AccessLine services are currently available in over 40 markets worldwide through licensees including AirTouch Cellular, Ameritech Cellular Ameritech Mobile Communications, LLC was the first company in the United States to provide cellular mobile phone service to the general public. Cell service became publicly available in Chicago on October 13, 1983. , Bell Atlantic Mobile, Bell Canada Bell Canada Enterprises (TSX: BCE, NYSE: BCE), legally BCE Inc., is a major Canadian telecommunications company. Through its subsidiaries including Bell Canada, Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for , Bell Mobility, Telia A.B. (Sweden), NetCom GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) A digital cellular phone technology based on TDMA that is the predominant system in Europe, but also used worldwide. Developed in the 1980s, GSM was first deployed in seven European countries in 1992. (Norway), One Number Service Inc. (Japan), Hyosung One Number Co., Ltd. (Korea), and other service operators in Europe and Asia. AccessLine offers the telephone and wireless industries an AIN-compliant service node platform that can deliver a full complement of personal communications services See PCS. , including One Person, One Number, or segmented, enhanced service offerings targeted to particular markets. (http://www.accessline.com) About Applied Language Technologies Applied Language Technologies is a leader in the development and implementation of advanced speech recognition and voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies. technologies for the telephony market. Based on technology licensed from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Computer Science, AL Tech develops and markets speech understanding software which provides large vocabulary, speaker-independent, phonetic speech recognition. ALTech's SpeechWorks(tm) and DialogModules(tm) software products contain a comprehensive set of features for automating telephone-based and net-based transactions and services. ALTech is a privately-held corporation based in Cambridge, Mass. (http:// www.altech.com) -0- Note to Editors: AccessLine, AccessLine System, and One Person, One Number are registered United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. trademarks or service marks of AccessLine Technologies Inc. CONTACT: AccessLine Kimberly Tassin, 206/654-1001 ktassin@accessline.com or ALTech Alisa Moyer, 617/225-0012 moyer@altech.com |
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