Alpine to Use Lernout & Hauspie's Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech Software for Car Navigation System.BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1997-- New Automotive Application Will Use NEC's Processor, L&H's 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. 1600 Engine 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) (L&H) today announced that Alpine has licensed its automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text to speech (TTS (1) See text-to-speech. (2) (Transaction Tracking System) Software that monitors a transaction until completion. In the event of a hardware or software failure, it ensures that the database is brought back to its former state before the attempt to ) technology to develop Alpine's car navigation See GPS. system. The new automotive application, built on a popular 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. processor, will is being designed incorporate L&H's ASR1600 engine, which allows machines to recognize and respond to spoken words. This announcement, L&H's most recent agreement with a developer of automotive applications, furthers the company's position as a leading vendor of voice recognition technology in the burgeoning automotive electronics market. Bill Meisel, industry expert and publisher of Speech Recognition Update, estimates the worldwide demand for speech technology in automotive applications can yield more than $200 million in licensing revenue by the year 2000. The Alpine Navigation System A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking. , which is scheduled to be available in the beginning of 1999, is an automotive navigation system An automotive navigation system is a satellite navigation system designed for use in automobiles. It typically uses GPS to acquire position data to locate the user on a road in the unit's map database. designed to enable end users to control the system through spoken commands. L&H's ASR technology, supporting speaker independent vocabularies which eliminates data collection or training by the end user, will allow the Alpine Navigation System to recognize the request. The system will then provide feedback to the driver using L&H's multilingual text-to-speech technology. The navigation systems is planned to be available in a number of languages including: English, German and French. The system will also employ a far-talk microphone, eliminating the need for users to wear a headset microphone. "L&H is the only speech technology vendor that has ASR and TTS available on the same processor in multiple languages," said Akira Kurihara, Managing Director of Alpine. "The engine'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. recognition ability requires little or no vocabulary training, making it fast and easy to use. These capabilities are integral to the development of consumer electronics and adaptable to a wide variety of applications." NEC's processor is a popular choice for developers creating consumer electronics applications such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), and navigation systems. The NEC V831, with the ASR1600 engine and L&H's text-to-speech technology, will be used by Alpine in this new product. "The automotive electronics industry is an important market for L&H's core technologies," said Gerald Calabrese. "This agreement strengthens our presence in this key area while maximizing consumer safety and convenience with the Alpine Navigation System." About Alpine Alpine Electronics Alpine Electronics, Inc. (アルパイン株式会社 , Inc. is a specialty manufacturer of car audio and navigation products. Since its establishment in 1967, Alpine has been a company guided by research and development, offering customers excellent sound reproduction through products based on innovative concepts. Alpine's CD-related products, exemplified by its in-dash 3-CD changer Changer The name given to a clearing member that is willing to assume the opposite position of a futures contract within a larger alternative exchange, of which it also is a clearing member. , are highly regarded by customers world wide and have secured a strong global market position. Alpine's car navigation systems have achieved a high level of popularity and are increasingly regarded as the standard against which all other systems are compared. The Company is working to "Make Alpine a Byword by·word also by-word n. 1. a. A proverbial expression; a proverb. b. An often-used word or phrase. 2. for Car Navigation." Centering on a car navigation systems, Alpine is aggressively developing the mobile multimedia systems of the future based on the concept of integrating and harmonizing sound, visual images, information and telecommunications. About Lernout & Hauspie Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is an international leader in the development of advanced speech technology for various commercial applications and products. The company is divided into four divisions: core technologies; dictation, a division dedicated to discrete and continuous speech offerings; translation services and products; and Internet services. Its four core technologies are automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), 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. and text-to-text (translation). The company has its worldwide headquarters in Ieper, Belgium, its U.S. headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 22,876 at the 2000 census. History Burlington was first settled in 1641 and was officially incorporated on February 28, 1799. and international sales offices throughout Asia. This Press Release contains forward-looking information that involves risks and uncertainties, including statements about L&H's objectives, expectations and intentions. Such statements include statements that by signing this agreement with Alpine, that Alpine will use L&H speech technology in its forthcoming products, Alpine will complete these products on a timely basis, if at all, that once developed will perform as anticipated, or that Alpine will play a key role in the distribution of the L&H text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition technology in automotive industry The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006, more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide. . Readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, that by signing this agreement with Alpine that they will not be able to use the L&H speech technology and that L&H and Alpine will not be able to jointly develop ASR and TTS technology for specific applications, or that once developed any of these products will perform as anticipated or be commercially successful. The forward-looking statements contained herein speak only as of the date of this release. L&H expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in L&H's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. -0- Lernout & Hauspie can be found on the World Wide Web at www.lhs.com . All product names and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of L&H and their respective subsidiaries. CONTACT: Lernout & Hauspie Audrey Pobre, 617/221-8341, apobre@lhs.com or FitzGerald Communications Jim Williams Jim or Jimmy Williams can refer to: In American football:
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