Corporate Profile for Berkeley Speech Technologies Inc., dated June 21, 1996.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company, Prodigy, Comtex, and many others. -0- Published Date: June 21, 1996 Company Name: Berkeley Speech Technologies Inc.
Address: 2246 Sixth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Main Telephone Number: 510/841-5083 Chief Executive Officer: Dr. Michael O'Malley Public Relations Contact: Elisabeth W. Peters Business number: 510/841-5083 URL/Email Address: bst@bst.com Industry: Text-to-speech conversion technology Company description: Berkeley Speech Technologies Inc. (BST (convention) BST - British Summer Time. The name for daylight-saving time in the UK GMT time zone. ), the leading developer and vendor of text-to-speech conversion technology, was founded in 1979. Its BeSTspeech(R) software has been sold for more than 10 years to millions of end users of products from a long list of high profile corporations, including hundreds of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and licensees, system integrators, 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 (who use the BeSTspeech Chip). BST is privately held by the principals and founders. They include Dr. Michael H. O'Malley, president, formerly a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. , Elisabeth W. Peters, board chair, and Sara O'Malley, president of BST marketing affiliate BeSTspeech Products. Financial data is not published, but the company has been profitable since it was founded. BeSTspeech computer-synthesized languages now include English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, Korean, Russian and Malay. BeSTspeech is used in many different computing environments for synthesizing human-sounding speech from text. Best-selling applications include portable dictionaries and translators, educational software, reading systems for blind users, and audible navigation aids in vehicles. In telephone voice systems, telephone callers use BeSTspeech for listening to information from text databases, e-mail and faxes (under a BST patent). -0- Note to Editors: BeSTspeech is a registered trademark of Berkeley Speech Technologies Inc. CONTACT: Berkeley Speech Technologies |
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