I.R.I.S. is shipping IRISPen Executive with Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products' text-to-speech.IEPER, Belgium/WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 1995-- Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (Nasdaq:LHSPF) today announced that Image Recognition Integrated Systems (I.R.I.S.) is shipping an enhanced version of IRISPen(TM), the IRISPen Executive, a unique pen-shaped text reader which features Lernout & Hauspie's text-to-speech technology that expands the data input tool's functionality. "Lernout & Hauspie is pleased that I.R.I.S. has had the vision and confidence in our technology to bolster the capabilities of the new IRISPen Executive using our text-to-speech technology," said Yacov Levy, chief executive officer of Lernout & Hauspie. "Integrating text-to-speech into the IRISPen enables the user to hear clear and natural words and numbers while scanning in information, be it from a document or a business card. This audible verification of data adds value to the data entry device." The IRISPen Executive adds text-to-speech, hand-printed number recognition and bar code reading capabilities to the data input power of its precursor, the IRISPen. It offers text recognition for all Western, Eastern, Cyrillic (Russian) and Greek languages. The Executive version offers speech synthesis speech synthesis Generation of speech by artificial means, usually by computer. Production of sound to simulate human speech is referred to as low-level synthesis. High-level synthesis deals with the conversion of written text or symbols into an abstract representation of in up to six languages, and frees its user from having to look up from documents to verify scanned results on screen because they will be heard aloud. The text-to-speech component, activated with the touch of a button, can pronounce the recognized handwriting or text, and can be equipped with a customized speech library to suit the user's work purposes. "As we developed and improved the data entry pen we listened to our customers and heard what they need to work more efficiently," said Dr. Pierre De Muelenaere, managing director and founder of I.R.I.S. "Text-to-speech provides an efficient proof reading technique and we feel this opens a world of multimedia applications. Lernout & Hauspie's technology has been easy to integrate into the IRISPen Executive using the L&H SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). (Software Developers Kit). The cooperation with L&H is natural since both our companies have a strong expertise in multi-lingual technologies." I.R.I.S. is a privately held Belgian company and a leader in the field of multi-lingual Optical Character Recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer. . I.R.I.S. markets a range of innovative OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. , Form Reading, and Imaging software packages for the PC, Mac, and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). environments on a worldwide basis. The company's headquarters are at 10 rue du Bosquet bos·quet n. A small grove; a thicket. [French, from Italian boschetto, diminutive of bosco, forest, of Germanic origin. , B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (near Brussels), Belgium. Phone 011-32-10-45 13 63; Fax 011-32-10-45 34 43. U.S. offices are at 1600 N.W. Boca Raton Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. Blvd. - Suite No. 20, Boca Raton, FL 33432. Phone 407/395-7831; Fax 407/347-6267. Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products is the international leader in the development of speech technology for commercial products in four markets: Telecommunications, Computers and Multimedia, Automotive Electronics, and Consumer Electronics. Lernout & Hauspie offers more speech processing Speech processing is the study of speech signals and the processing methods of these signals. The signals are usually processed in a digital representation whereby speech processing can be seen as the intersection of digital signal processing and natural language processing. products, for more worldwide markets, than any other company. It licenses core automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, and digital speech compression Encoding digital speech to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. The PCM, ADPCM, CELP and LD-CELP methods are commonly used for speech compression. See speech codec and data compression. technologies. The company's worldwide headquarters are in Ieper, and its Asian sales office is located in Taipei, Taiwan; U.S. headquarters are at 800 W. Cummings Park Cummings Park is located in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. It is made up of about 79 acres (320,000 m²) of shorefront property on Long Island Sound in a suburb of New York City. , Suite 3100, Woburn, MA 01801. Phone 617/932-4118; Fax 617/932-9209. CONTACT: Lernout & Hauspie Bart Verhaeghe, 617/932-4118 or Hill & Knowlton Jim Martinez, 312/255-1200 or L&H Europe Scott Garlick, 011-32-2-456-05-00 or Reeves Communication Dave Reeves, 407/391-8717 or I.R.I.S. Ann Lambrechts, 011-32-1-045-13-64 |
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