Conversa and Samsung Electronics Announce Strategic Alliance; Samsung to Embed Conversa's Speech Technology into Cellular Phones and Other Wireless Devices.REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1999-- Conversa has announced a strategic alliance with Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. Ltd., a world leader in the electronics industry, to embed em·bed also im·bed v. em·bed·ded, em·bed·ding, em·beds v.tr. 1. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass: embed a post in concrete; fossils embedded in shale. the company's proprietary speech technology into Samsung's cellular phones and other wireless devices. The agreement paves the way toward an ongoing strategic relationship between Conversa and Samsung to incorporate speech technologies into mainstream consumer products, said Steve Rondel ron·del n. 1. A poem similar to a rondeau, having 13 or 14 lines with two rhymes throughout. The first and second lines reappear in the middle and at the end, although sometimes only the first line appears at the end. 2. , Conversa chairman and chief executive officer. "For a powerhouse A fourth-generation language from Cognos that was introduced in the late 1970s for midrange computers. It supports both character-oriented, terminal-based applications as well as Windows clients. Applications developed under PowerHouse can be imported into Cognos' Axiant client/server environment. such as Samsung to team with a relatively young upstart as Conversa is just phenomenal," Rondel said. "This agreement truly validates our hard work, technology and vision." Rondel said the companies expect to announce further details on the strategic alliance in November. About Samsung Electronics In 1998, Samsung Electronics sold a total of 7.4 million wireless mobile phones at home and abroad, for a 3.7 percent share of the world market. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., with 1998 sales revenue of $16.6 billion (U.S.), is a world leader in the electronics industry. The Korea-based firm has operations in more than 50 countries with 60,000 employees worldwide. For more information, please visit their Web site at www.samsungelectronics.com. About Conversa Founded in 1994, Conversa (pronounced con-ver-say) develops speech technology solutions for PCs, network service providers and embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. manufacturers that allow people to conversationally interact with computers and electronics devices. Using natural language as the interface between people and machines, Conversa provides the tools and the technology for building conversational Web sites and enabling communications and information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. transactions using natural speech. Conversa's award-winning speech products include a voice browser A voice browser is a web browser that presents an interactive voice user interface to the user. In addition, it typically provides an interface to the PSTN or a PBX. Just as a visual web browser works with HTML pages, a voice browser operates on pages that specify voice dialogues. , PC-based software that provides remote e-mail access over any, and custom embedded-system speech solutions. For more information, go to Conversa's Web site at www.conversa.com or call 888/487-4373. |
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