Conversay Joins Texas Instruments Third Party Network; Conversay to Embed Speech Recognition Technology On TI Chipsets for Mobile Internet Appliances.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2001 Conversay, a global leader in enabling speech technologies for both mobile and traditional Internet access See how to access the Internet. devices, announced today that it will join the 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. (TI) third party network, the most extensive collection of Digital Signal Processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). (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 ) development support in the industry. Using eXpressDSP(TM) Real-Time Software Technology, Conversay will embed its speech recognition technology into TI's TMS TMS Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (alternative medicine for depression) TMS Test Match Special (sports - cricket) TMS Texas Motor Speedway TMS Transportation Management System TMS Toyota Motor Sales 320C5000(TM) power-efficient, programmable DSP platform, optimized for mobile wireless devices such as PDAs, cell phones and Internet appliances Also called "information appliance," "smart appliance," and "Web appliance," it is a device specialized for accessing the Web and/or e-mail. Designed for ease of use, it plugs into a telephone jack or LAN connection for Internet hookup. . "Texas Instruments DSPs are components of many of the devices that we support or reside on," said Matt Scheuing, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Conversay. "And with the interface solutions we bring to the table, we hope to make TI products even more attractive to customers. We have already been working together with a mutual partner, Xybernaut(R), developing speech-enabled wearable computer See body-worn computer. technology, and we look forward to continuing this relationship." "Conversay is an excellent example of the best-of-breed companies we seek to join our third party network," said Raymond Wagstaffe, worldwide third party network manager, TI. "We are excited about Conversay's plans to support TI products and the market potential of Conversay's speech recognition technology in conjunction with our C5000(TM) DSP platform." "Embedding 1. (mathematics) embedding - One instance of some mathematical object contained with in another instance, e.g. a group which is a subgroup. 2. (theory) embedding - (domain theory) A complete partial order F in [X -> Y] is an embedding if speech in consumer appliances and wireless phones requires new products and partnerships that will make everything that has been done up to now pale in comparison," noted Mark Plakias, Senior Vice President of Communications & Infrastructure at The Kelsey Group (Princeton, NJ). "By baking Conversay's recognition engine into its market-leading chipset, Texas Instruments has committed to propagating a user interface that makes speech a true 'lifestyle' technology." The TI TMS320 third-party program is the most extensive collection of global DSP development support in the industry, with more than 400 independent companies and consultants providing customers with a broad range of application software, development hardware and software and consulting services. For more information on the TI third party program, please visit www.dspvillage.TI.com About Conversay Founded in 1994, Conversay provides solutions that enable voice interaction with networked information, including the Internet, when other interfaces are difficult or impossible. Built on an innovative speech engine, Conversay(R) technology is speaker-independent, modular, scalable and accommodates unlimited vocabulary, making it ideally suited for embedded applications. It also drives award-winning products including 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. , desktop and web developer tools, and a conversational server. Conversay headquarters are in Redmond, Wash., and is located on the web at www.conversay.com. Conversay is a trademark of Conversational Computing Corp. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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