Dictaphone announces plans to use Intel Miniature Cards in new Digital Portable Recorders.STRATFORD Stratford, estate, United States Stratford, home of the Lee family, overlooking the Potomac River, E Va., SE of Fredericksburg. A national shrine dedicated in 1935, the site was purchased in 1716 by Thomas Lee, who built the mansion Stratford Hall in , Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2, 1996--Dictaphone Corp. announced today its plans to utilize Intel's Miniature Cards A flash memory card that was used in some consumer devices. It was later replaced by CompactFlash and other memory technologies due to its problematic connector design. in its future family of Digital Portable Recorders. Dictaphone will focus its initial marketing efforts for its Digital Portable Recorders at the huge base of existing portable users within healthcare, legal, insurance, and at the ever mobile professional PC business user. "Through the utilization of Intel's Miniature Card technology, Dictaphone is now able to provide all the benefits of digital voice storage and voice file management, with direct integration and compatibility with their centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies. systems or any PC. Once stored in a digital format, voice information can be manipulated, transported, and archived on a platform of existing networks and PCs," said Ron Elwell, vice president, marketing & product development. "The need for a portable voice-based link to the PC is clear. Voice applications offer levels of speed of interaction and access to information not possible in a 'keyboard only' environment. This holds true for both Dictaphone's core business -- Voice and Data Management -- as well as for the entire PC market," indicated Ron Elwell. The first Recorder in the Dictaphone family of Digital Portables will be introduced early in 1997. The Dictaphone family of Digital Portable Recorders will provide the perfect store-and-forward solution for any application involving voice. They will add portability, and the ability to rapidly download/upload verbal information for transcription transcription /trans·crip·tion/ (-krip´shun) the synthesis of RNA using a DNA template catalyzed by RNA polymerase; the base sequences of the RNA and DNA are complementary. tran·scrip·tion n. or management of voice files within the PC environment. Dictaphone is a leader in the development, manufacture, marketing, service, and support of Integrated Voice and Data Management (IVDM IVDM Integrated Voice and Data Multiplexer (TM)) systems and software, which include communications recording, dictation, voice processing, voice response, unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. , records management, and court room recording. Dictaphone has a worldwide marketing, sales, service, and support organization in over 190 U.S. cities, Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, France, and Italy, and dedicated dealers in 40 other countries. Company sales revenues in 1995 were approximately $353 million. Information about Dictaphone and its products is also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.dictaphone.com. Inquiries regarding Intel's Series 100 Flash Memory Miniature Card should be directed to Anne Hall, 916/356-6515, Intel Corp., Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. CONTACT: Dictaphone, Stratford Robert Qamar, 203/381-7000 BQAM@dictaphone.com |
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