Acer Sertek licenses Lernout & Hauspie speech recognition for multimedia software.IEPER, Belgium and BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Aug. 28, 1996--Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :LHSPF) today announced that it has licensed its automatic speech recognition technology to Acer Acer trees of the family Aceraceae. Acer rubrum ingestion of wilted or dries leaves of this tree causes acute hemolytic anemia characterized by red urine, jaundice, anemia and methemoglobinemia in horses. Sertek Inc., a leading Taiwanese multimedia software developer. Acer Sertek licensed L&H's automatic speech recognition (L&H ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See voice recognition and AVSR. .1500) technology for use in multimedia applications the company said it will bundle into Acer PCs and peripherals. "Lernout & Hauspie technology has several advantages over its competitors," said Gary Twu, associate vice president of Acer Sertek. "First, L&H speech recognition technology is speaker independent, which means users need little specialized training. Second, it allows consumers to use "user words" to customize their own applications. Third, L&H supports English and will soon support Mandarin Mandarin (măn`dərĭn) [Port. mandar=to govern, or from Malay mantri=counselor of state], a high official of imperial China. For each of the nine grades there was a different colored button worn on the dress cap. Chinese, two languages which are critical to our consumers. Finally, L&H technology can be easily ported to different platforms, which enables us to adapt it for new products." "L&H has been strong in Asia in providing coding and text-to-speech technologies and is pleased with this contract with Acer Sertek, our first entry of speech recognition in the Asian market," said Jo Lernout, co-founder and president of Lernout & Hauspie. "Through our Taipei and Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. offices, L&H is able to provide local support for its east Asian customers." About Acer Sertek Acer Sertek is Taiwan's largest supplier of multimedia equipment, develops multimedia systems, optical drives, sound cards, MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). cards and other multimedia products. A subsidiary of Acer Inc., one of the world's leading PC manufacturers, Acer Sertek, was founded in 1976. In addition to multimedia equipment and applications, the company is a leading Taiwanese technology products distributor. It represents international hardware, software and peripheral companies. About Lernout & Hauspie Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products is an international leader in the development of speech technology for commercial products in four markets: Telecommunications, Computers and Multimedia, Automotive Electronics, and Consumer Electronics. Lernout & Hauspie licenses core automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, and digital speech compression Encoding digital speech to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. The PCM, ADPCM, CELP and LD-CELP methods are commonly used for speech compression. See speech codec and data compression. technologies. The company's worldwide headquarters is in Ieper, Belgium, and its Asian sales offices are located in Taipei, Taiwan and Hong Kong; U.S. headquarters is at 20 Mall Road, Burlington, MA 01803. Phone: (617) 238-0960; Fax: (617) 238-0986. CONTACT: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Europe Scott Garlick Scott Garlick (born May 29, 1972 in Phoenix, Arizona) is a retired American soccer goalkeeper, who last played for Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer. Garlick was not drafted by an MLS team out of college; instead, he signed with the Carolina Dynamo of the A-League. D.C. , 011-32-2-456-05-00 or Hill & Knowlton Jim Martinez, 312/255-1200 |
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