Embedded Speech Technology from Nuance Communications Powers New Mobile Phones from Pantech.Text-to-Speech Unlocks the Power of New Pantech Pantech can be:-
BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Nuance Communications Nuance Communications is a computer software technology company. Their current worldwide headquarters is in Burlington, Massachusetts in the United States. Nuance provides speech and imaging solutions and is mainly known for its speech recognition and speech synthesis software that , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : NUAN NUAN New User Action Notation (modeling language) ), a leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that the Pantech Group, the second largest mobile phone company in South Korea, has selected speech solutions from Nuance Communications to power its PG-6200, PG-8000 and PG-3700 handsets in multiple languages, including Russian, English and Mandarin Chinese. The products are already available in the Russian and Taiwanese markets. Pantech's new GSM models, with advanced camera and multimedia functionality, are intended for sophisticated handset users. The phones include RealSpeak[TM] Mobile SF from Nuance, the industry's leading text-to-speech engine, to accurately convert text into highly intelligible, synthesized speech. RealSpeak Mobile is embedded in devices to deliver high-quality text-to-speech readout (1) A small display device that typically shows only a few digits or a couple of lines of data. (2) Any display screen or panel. of SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. and email messages. "We believe this partnership with Nuance Communications will add a significant edge both to our handsets and our ability to roll out new products in different parts of the world," said Tae Hyun Jung, vice president, R&D planning division, Pantech Group. "Our goals is to selectively increase the scope of our service in a number of key markets, and being able to provide handsets that are fully functional in local languages will be integral to this process." "Phones have always been a natural for speech technology, but until recently handsets lacked the processing power and memory to make it work," said Craig Peddie, vice president, Embedded Speech Solutions, Nuance. "Today this has changed, and there are now 50 million phones shipping with Nuance speech technologies. Our technology is cost effective, accurate, easy to use, and easy to integrate, providing value for the user, the manufacturer and the operator." More than 30 manufacturers worldwide have implemented Nuance solutions in more than 50 million devices around the world, including cellular phones, smart phones and PDAs. Its current customer portfolio includes many of the leaders in the wireless and device industries, including LG Electronics, Motorola, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Analog Devices Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) is an American multinational producer of semiconductor devices. Analog specializes in ADC, DAC, MEMS, and DSP chips for consumer and industrial goods. Analog is presently designing circuits in the 65 nanometer to 3 µm process feature sizes range. , Agere Systems Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Effective April 2, 2007, it was merged into LSI Corporation. , Hitachi, Intel, Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 , Samsung, Panasonic, Qualcomm and 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. . About RealSpeak Mobile RealSpeak Mobile provides a scalable embedded text-to-speech system for mobile handsets. With RealSpeak Mobile any SMS and email from a user's inbox can be read aloud in more than 20 languages and 30 voices. In order to accommodate typical handset resource constraints, RealSpeak Mobile is available in different memory configurations ranging from a low footprint, entry level version (RealSpeak Mobile SF) to the very high speech quality of RealSpeak Mobile HQ with advanced text pre-processing functionality. About Pantech Group Pantech, through its affiliates - Pantech Co., Ltd., Pantech&Curitel Communications, Inc. and Pantech C&I Co. - is the second largest mobile phone company in South Korea and is the seventh largest handset manufacturer in the world. Pantech has been responsible for a number of breakthrough innovations in the mobile technology sector, including the introduction in 2004 of the world's first fingerprint recognition camera phone, as well as award winning camcorder, MP3 and DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) See mobile TV. phones. In 2005, Pantech affiliate Pantech&Curitel Communications acquired SK Teletech Co., the handset manufacturing arm of SK Telecom, the number one mobile network operator in South Korea. The SKY brand, originally marketed by SK Teletech as the most popular premium handset brand in South Korea, has since become part of the Pantech brand portfolio. Pantech markets its products under the SKY and Curitel brands in the domestic Korean market and under the Pantech brand overseas. Pantech collectively has approximately 5,000 employees and 22 regional sales offices worldwide. For more information on Pantech, please visit www.pantech.com. About Nuance Communications, Inc. Nuance is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for business and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications, and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share, and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance's proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com. Nuance, the Nuance logo and RealSpeak are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other company names or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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