Casio Selects Fonix Text-to-Speech for Electronic Dictionary Models Marketed in Korea.SALT LAKE CITY -- Fonix Speech Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary 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. of Fonix Corp. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). : FNIX) specializing in embedded speech interfaces for mobile devices, handheld electronic products, and systems and processors, announces its Fonix DECtalk 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 ) on three new electronic dictionaries marketed in Korea and manufactured by Casio Computer Co. Ltd., a leading device manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo. Casio estimates the total volume of the electronic dictionary market in Korea for 2006 will be more than 1.2 million. Fonix will receive unit royalties from each device sold. Fonix DECtalk TTS is embedded on Casio's new EW series of electronic dictionaries, which will be available in Korea via local-area retailers at the end of February. The devices are targeted to university students, junior high and high school students, and businesspersons seeking to improve their foreign language skills. Fonix's TTS-based solution "speaks" to the device user, demonstrating how to pronounce English words or phrases using Fonix text-to-speech. "Casio has done a great job of marketing their electronic dictionaries to students and others hoping to improve their language skills," says Walt Nawrocki, senior VP and GM, Fonix Speech. "Based upon the popularity of speech-enabled Casio dictionaries in Japan, Fonix hopes the devices will quickly catch on in the Korean market as well. Fonix is pleased to be Casio's TTS of choice and looks forward to continuing our relationship." For more information about Fonix speech solutions, visit www.fonix.com, or call 801-553-6600 and say "Sales." About Casio Casio Computer Co. Ltd. is one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics products and business equipment solutions. Since its establishment in 1957, Casio has strived to realize its corporate creed of "creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products. Today, Casio's offerings include timepieces, digital cameras, cellular phones, electronic dictionaries, calculators, musical instruments, system equipment, and electronic components such as LCDs. About Fonix DECtalk DECtalk offers the smallest memory footprint Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running. This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections (both initialized and uninitialized), heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold for a multilanguage, full-dictionary TTS in the industry. Fonix TTS is specifically engineered for small devices and provides a standard of intelligible and natural sound quality that surpasses competitive offerings. Version 4.6.4 supports the widest array of hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. on the market, and offers nine voices (four female, four male and one child's voice) and seven languages (U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian and Latin American Spanish American Spanish n. The Spanish language as used in the Western Hemisphere. , French, German and Italian). About Fonix Speech Inc. Fonix Speech Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fonix Corp. that currently offers voice technology solutions for mobile/wireless devices; interactive videogames, toys and appliances; computer telephony See CTI, VoIP and IP telephony. Computer Telephony - Computer Telephone Integration systems; the assistive market and automotive telematics Originally coined to mean the convergence of telecommunications and information processing, the term later evolved to refer to automation in automobiles. GPS navigation, integrated hands-free cellphones, wireless communications and automatic driving assistance systems all come under the . About Fonix Fonix Corp., based in Salt Lake City, is an innovative communications and technology company that provides integrated telecommunications services and value-added speech technologies through Fonix Telecom Inc., LecStar Telecom Inc. and Fonix Speech Inc. The combination of interactive speech technology and integrated telecommunications services allows Fonix to provide customers with comprehensive cost-effective solutions to enhance and expand their communications needs. Visit www.fonix.com for more information, or call 801-553-6600 and say "Sales." Statements released by Fonix that are not purely historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. 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