NSC's Speech Recognition Engine Deployed on the Intel -R- Voice Portal Reference System.Business Editors/High Tech Writers RISHON LE-ZION, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2001 NSC's compact speech recognition engine is now available on the voice portal reference system (VPRS VPRS Voice Portal Reference System VPRS Velocity Position Reference System VPRS Virtual Private Routing Services VPRS Virtual Print Room Services VPRS Velocity/Positioning Recording System ) from Intel Corporation, enabling telecom service providers to deploy high density Hebrew and US English 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. ) applications. NSC's ASR engine is delivered on the NSCBoard(TM) - NSC's proprietary PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). boards designed for application developers providing telephony applications. Each board hosts several ASR chip sets (NSCEngine)(TM) and provides up to 90 speech recognition channels on a single board. These boards are ideal for telephony application providers since they are sparing of CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. resources and support several languages simultaneously. The VPRS from Intel is engineered for Telecom Service Providers interested in deploying voice portal applications. Immediately available, the reference systems include a high-density Intel(R) ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. 2150 rack server with two Intel(R) Pentium(R) III processors and provides powerful performance and high availability. Upcoming releases plan to include models for 1U to 6U server reference systems, based on the reliable and open architecture you expect from Intel. The VPRS with NSC's ASR technology is currently available in Hebrew and North American English North American English is a collective term used for the varieties of the English language that are spoken in the United States and Canada. Because of the considerable similarities in pronunciation, vocabulary and accent between American English and Canadian English, the two spoken and will be co-marketed by both companies. "We are excited that NSC NSC abbr. National Security Council Noun 1. NSC - a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security; supervises the Central Intelligence Agency has chosen Intel(R) voice portal technology to deliver the market's first voice portal platform incorporating Hebrew speech recognition technology," says Michael Rubinov, Regional Manager Israel. The new platform will enable telecom service providers to deliver interactive mobile speech-enabled applications in Hebrew into Israel's emerging wireless market for the first time, creating important new value-added service opportunities." "We are very happy to work with Intel on launching the first voice portal platform in Hebrew," said Dr. Ami Moyal, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of NSC. "I am confident the voice portal reference platform from Intel with NSC's ASR board, will provide application developers with an appropriate platform for building revenue generating speech enabled services for the telecom market," he added. About NSC NSC - Natural Speech Communication Ltd provides cost-competitive, high-density, and noise-robust speech recognition solutions for cellephony, telephony and Internet infrastructure vendors. NSC provides extremely compact DSP-based firmware and hardware products, with up to hundreds of speech recognition channels in a single telephony server, and a highly competitive cost-per-channel. Additional information about the Company is available on NSC's web site: www.nsc.co.il |
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