Lernout & Hauspie Announces Webcast of Conference Call.Business/Technology Editors IEPER, Belgium & BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2000 Lernout & Hauspie (Nasdaq: LHSP LHSP List Hosting Service Provider LHSP Left Handed Starting Pitcher , Easdaq: LHSP) (`L&H'), a world leader in speech and language technology, products and services, today announced that there will be a conference call, hosted by Roel Pieper Roland ("Roel") Pieper (1956 - ) is a Dutch IT-entrepreneur. Pieper was born in Vlaardingen, son of an engineer at a car manufacturer. His father died when Pieper was 20, and on his 18th birthday he was subject to a motoring accident which destroyed his sporting career as a player , Chairman of L&H, for media and the financial community, to provide an update on recent events. The call will be accessible to anyone via a live webcast on the company's website at www.lhsl.com on November 17, 2000, from 10:00 am EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy , 4:00pm CET CET abbr. Central European Time CET Central European Time CET n abbr (= Central European Time) → hora de Europa central CET abbr (Continental Europe Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent, is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands and, at times, peninsulas. ), 3:00pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) See UTC. GMT - Universal Time 1 . For those unable to monitor the webcast, there will be an audio playback available from Friday, November 17, 2000, 8.00 pm until Tuesday, November 21, 2000, 8.00pm.. The call, the first in a series of regular calls, is designed to keep investors and the media as fully up to date as possible with regard to developments affecting the company. Given regulatory and other constraints, responses to questions may be restricted. "While we will not be able to answer all questions fully at this stage, we hope that regular conference calls will re-affirm that the new management team is making every effort to update investors about our current status," said Roel Pieper, Chairman of L&H. About Lernout & Hauspie Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) is a global leader in advanced speech and language solutions for vertical markets, computers, automobiles, telecommunications, embedded products, consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and and the Internet. The company is making the speech user interface (SUI Sui (swā), dynasty of China that ruled from 581 to 618. This short-lived dynasty reunified China in 589 after 400 years of division and laid the foundation for further consolidation under the T'ang dynasty. ) the keystone of simple, convenient interaction between humans and technology, and is using advanced translation technology to break down language barriers. The company provides a wide range of offerings, including: customized solutions for corporations; core speech technologies marketed to OEMs; end user and retail applications for continuous speech products in horizontal and vertical markets; and document creation, human and machine translation services, Internet translation offerings, and linguistic tools. L&H's products and services originate in four basic areas: automatic speech recognition (ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See voice recognition and AVSR. ), text-to-speech (TTS (1) See text-to-speech. (2) (Transaction Tracking System) Software that monitors a transaction until completion. In the event of a hardware or software failure, it ensures that the database is brought back to its former state before the attempt to ), digital speech and music compression (SMC SMC Saint Mary's College SMC Santa Monica College SMC Solaris Management Console SMC Smooth Muscle Cell SMC Small Magellanic Cloud (also see LMC) SMC Safety Management Certificate (maritime shipping) ) and text-to-text (translation). For more information, please visit Lernout & Hauspie on the World Wide Web at www.lhsl.com. This News Release contains forward-looking information that involves risks and uncertainties, including statements about the company's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. Such statements include, without limitation, discussions concerning the company's intent to offer shares of common stock in the future and the company's planned use of proceeds of the offering, the company's strategic direction, new product introductions and developments, the expected developments of targeted markets, and the financial and other contributions expected from the company's acquisitions. Readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially than those set forth in the forward looking statements. The risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the risk that the company may not be able to complete the proposed sales of its common stock on terms acceptable to it, if at all, the early stage of the speech technology market, the management of growth, the successful integration of the company's recent acquisitions, the ability of the company and its customers and strategic partners to develop and successfully market new products, the ability of the company to enter into advantageous strategic alliances, rapid technological change and competition. The forward-looking statements contained herein speak only as of the date of this News Release. The company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in the company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstance on which any such statement is based. All product names and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of L&H or their respective owners. |
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