AlphaCell Licenses Innovative Speech Recognition Technologies from ART for Its Mobile Devices.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 3GSM World Congress 2003 Hall 2, Stand D40 CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2003 AlphaCell, an Emblaze em·blaze 1 tr.v. em·blazed, em·blaz·ing, em·blaz·es 1. To set on fire. 2. To cause to glow; light up. group company and provider of advanced customized rich media mobile handsets today announces that it has signed a technology cooperation agreement with ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc., global leaders of Human Interface technologies. The agreement enables AlphaCell to port ART's innovative 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). technologies into its new generation of mobile handsets. ART's advanced smARTspeak XG(TM), an embedded, speaker independent name dialling solution, and ART's simpliWrite software will be ported to AlphaCell's M5 handset. The M5 is a fully customisable mobile handset, which will be unveiled at the 3GSM conference on 17 -21 February 2003. ART's speech and handwriting recognition technology gives users of AlphaCell's M5 handset greater flexibility in the way they can structure commands, for example "Call John Smith in his office" and "John Smith - office" both provide the same accurate response. ART's handwriting recognition technology, simpliWrite, is designed specifically to make text input fast, accurate and more user-friendly. The software identifies the users' own natural writing, freeing them from the need to learn and employ cumbersome, unnatural pre-determined letter-shapes. Tsion Gonen, VP of Marketing at AlphaCell said: "AlphaCell has built its reputation on high level cooperation and integration with application providers, mobile technology companies and back-end service providers - providing wireless carriers with platforms that increase Average Revenue Per User (ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) A calculation often used to determine the overall value of an application. It is also used to rate particular customers, especially in the wireless space, by comparing someone's account to the overall average. ), generate additional revenue streams and reduce churn. We are pleased to include ART as one of our newest partners. ART's superior solutions greatly enhance our commitment to providing best of breed technologies to our clients." Eran Aharonson, ART's President commented: "We are delighted to be associated with AlphaCell's pioneering products. AlphaCell represents one of the best advances in mobile technologies, and we're confident that its global customers will be delighted with the comprehensive range of speech and handwriting activating functionality that smARTspeak XG adds to the devices." About smARTspeak XG ART's latest technological innovation, the smARTspeak XG is an embedded, speaker independent name dialing solution introduced for mass-market deployment. Based on phonemic pho·ne·mic adj. 1. Of or relating to phonemes. 2. Of or relating to phonemics. 3. Serving to distinguish phonemes or distinctive features. identification, the dynamic smARTspeak XG needs no training for instant name dialling, no matter how users structure their command sentences. Thus, `Call John Smith in his office' or `John Smith - office' provides the same accurate response. Evolving from the earlier smARTspeak NG platform, the smARTspeak XG incorporates the same modular feature-rich functionality of speaker dependent name dialling, speaker independent continuous digit dialling, speaker independent command & control and trainable continuous digit dialling for custom languages. About simpliWrite simpliWrite is a market-proven minimal memory / CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. requirement software-only solution, designed to provide fast and accurate text-input for the new generation of keyboard-less devices. ART's unique, intuitive handwriting recognizer identifies the user's own natural writing, freeing them from the need to learn & employ cumbersome, unnatural pre-determined letter-shapes. Supporting more than 30 languages and creating a near zero learning curve, simpliWrite is another step towards the ultimate out-of-the-box user experience. About AlphaCell AlphaCell, an Emblaze group company, is a provider of fully tailored, advanced multimedia handsets, operating over 2.5G and 3G wireless networks. AlphaCell offers two innovative foundation rich-media handsets; the M5, serving the mid-range market and the M6 targeting premium hi-end customers. AlphaCell offers complete solutions that span the entire product development cycle, from requirements research, through detailed design and prototype testing, to manufacturing and final product delivery. For more information, please visit: www.alphacell.com About the Emblaze Group The Emblaze group of companies share a common vision to lead the market transformation to rich media personal communication. The group consists of four companies: Emblaze Systems, a leading provider of media centric end-to-end solutions for wireless multimedia services; Orca Interactive, a global market leader in the development of highly scalable solutions for commercial iTV services; Emblaze Semiconductor, a fabless IC company providing semiconductor-based solutions for high volume mobile multimedia appliances; and AlphaCell a multimedia smart phone design company. Emblaze went public in 1996 and is traded on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. (BLZ BLZ Bankleitzahl (German bank code) BLZ Belize (ISO Country code) BLZ Bladzijde (Dutch: page) BLZ Bayerische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildungsarbeit ). The Emblaze group has offices in China, Germany, Israel, Korea, Singapore, U.K. and the U.S.A., with over 400 employees worldwide. 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 producing award winning innovative technology, ART develops and markets technologically superior solutions for the control and command of mobile devices by 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 See ITS, embedded system, drive-by-wire, adaptive cruise control, collision avoidance system, autonomous vehicle, heads-up display, DSRC, lane departure system, CAN bus, FlexRay and SYNC. . ART's embedded software-only solutions are deployed in dozens of product lines from industry leaders such as Panasonic, LGE LGE LG Electronics LGE Local Government Employers (UK) LGE Laser Guided Energy LGE Louisville Gas & Electric LGE Loop or Ground-start, Exchange (Newbridge) , 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. , Logitech, 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 , Quanta quan·ta n. Plural of quantum. , Compal, Inventec, Acer, Casio, Maxon, Siemens Automotive, Franklin, PaceBlade and others. ART has strategic and technological partnerships with industry leaders including: Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. , Motorola Semiconductors, Intel, 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, Agere Systems, Analog Devices, DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive Group, Parthus CIVA CIVA Charge-Induced Voltage Alteration CIVA Comet Nucleus Infrared and Visible Analyser (instrument aboard the Rosetta spacecraft) CIVA Centralised Intravenous Additive , Microsoft, Symbian, TTPCom, SVOX, Phone-Or 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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