Europe's Largest Auto Club Selects ScanSoft RealSpeak for Voice-Enabled-Traffic Information Service.Business/Technology Editors PEABODY, Mass. & GENT, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2002 Phone-Based Services Powered by RealSpeak Provide Up-to-the-Second Traffic Information for ADAC ADAC Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil Club (German automobile club) ADAC Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council ADAC Art Directors and Artists Club (Sacramento, California) ADAC Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council Members and Customers ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT SSFT Secure Socket File Transfer ), the leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions, today announced that ADAC, the largest automobile club in Europe, has selected ScanSoft`s RealSpeak(TM) text-to-speech solution in German to provide up-to-the-second traffic information to its members and customers over the phone. The popular service has been implemented by Telenet, a leading systems integrator in Germany, and combines ScanSoft's text-to-speech and Multivoice, Telenet's Interactive Voice Response (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ) system. Before using an automated text-to-speech solution, the timeliness of the traffic service was sometimes hindered by a lengthy process. The messages that could not be automatically transcribed had to be passed on to a speaker, recorded as a voice segment and then uploaded to the system. Today, ScanSoft's RealSpeak text-to-speech has eliminated the need to record segments, significantly reducing the processing time and providing drivers with refreshed ADAC traffic information in mere seconds. "As the largest automobile club in Europe, we are keen to offer our 14.5 million members and customers the highest-quality services available. RealSpeak, clearly one of the most stable and natural sounding voices in the industry, has been well received among our members and customers," said Peter Kitzig, product manager VoiceServer Services for ADAC. "With the ScanSoft solution at the core of our innovative traffic service, we're able to keep our members informed while saving time and money in our administration." "ScanSoft is pleased to provide the text-to-speech technologies behind this time-critical and important traffic information service," said Peter Hauser Peter Benjamin Hauser (born April 20 1934, South Africa) played professional football for Blackpool before becoming player-manager of Chester in 1963. This made him one of the first foreign managers in English football. , ScanSoft's senior vice president and general manager, International. "We are especially satisfied to have partners such as Telenet that make such innovative solutions possible." The ADAC traffic information service is accessible in Germany at the uniform short dialing number via mobile phones 22 4 99 and costs 0,51 Euro per call plus individual service fee of the network- and service provider. Fore more information please visit http://www.adac.de/telematik. About ScanSoft RealSpeak ScanSoft RealSpeak is the market-leading product for converting text into human-sounding synthesized speech. The text-to-speech solution is used for a wide range of applications, including implementing voice portals, delivering emails for 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. systems, providing prompts for interactive voice response (IVR) applications, and speech-enabling mobile, automotive, game and PC/multi-media applications. RealSpeak offers a single, standardized application programming interface (API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. ) that supports the creation of speech-enabled applications in 19 languages, including U.S. and UK English, German, French, Dutch and Belgian Dutch, Castilian and Mexican Spanish, Italian, European and Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, , Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, Korean and Japanese. About Telenet Telenet GmbH Kommunikationssysteme was founded in 1982 in Munich and counts today about 30 employees. Telenet GmbH is the leading supplier of IVR systems and preferred partner of many telecommunication equipment manufacturers in Germany. Telenet is a value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. system integrator using open, standardized interfaces and the latest hardware and software technologies from leading manufacturers. Due to experience and modular system configuration Telenet is able to offer their customers a need-oriented, custom made solution. About ADAC Telematikdienste GmbH (ATG ATG antithymocyte globulin. lymphocyte immune globulin (antithymocyte globulin equine, ATG, ATG equine, LIG) Atgam Pharmacologic class: Immunoglobulin Therapeutic class: Immunosuppressant ) Data communication services such as breakdown assistance, emergency numbers, traffic information, road directions and tourist information tourist information - Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's going on with the software or hardware behind it. are some of the long-term core capabilities of ADAC. The Allgemeine Deutsche Automobil-Club develops and markets its data communication services as part of an independent company. Founded in 1998, ADAC Telematikdienste GmbH (ATG) provides value oriented, innovative data communication services geared specifically to car drivers. In the future ADAC intends to offer ground-breaking data communication services together with leading European automobile clubs as AA Europe (Automobile Association Automobile Association may refer to:
About ADAC (Allgemeine Deutsche Automobil Club) Founded in Stuttgart in 1903, ADAC has grown steadily to become the largest automobile club in Europe. ADAC assists, informs and represents the interests of the car driver. As its workload and responsibilities have increased, ADAC has always taken care to create and develop its own internal structure. With more than 14.5 million members, ADAC is the largest automobile club in Europe and the third largest in the world, after the AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association. (Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied. in the USA and the JAA JAA Joint Aviation Authorities (European equivalent of FAA) JAA Judge Advocates Association JAA Junior Achievement of Armenia JAA Just Another Acronym JAA Joint Action Area JAA Joint Aerospace Applications in Japan. About ScanSoft ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT) is the leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions that are used to automate a wide range of manual processes - saving time, increasing worker productivity and improving customer service. For more information regarding ScanSoft(R) products and technologies, please visit www.ScanSoft.com. Trademark reference: ScanSoft and RealSpeak are registered trademarks or trademarks of ScanSoft Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. All other company names or product names referenced herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The statements in this press release that relate to future plans, events or performances are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with market trends, competitive factors, and other risks identified in the Company's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date hereof. |
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