SpeechTime Selects Award-Winning ScanSoft RealSpeak for Voice-Controlled Information Systems; High-Quality Synthesized Speech Provides Access to Information Anywhere and Anytime.Business/Technology Editors PEABODY, Mass. & STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2002 ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT SSFT Secure Socket File Transfer ), a leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions, today announced that SpeechTime, a Swedish voice and Internet specialist, has selected ScanSoft(R) RealSpeak(TM) to create voice-controlled information services See Information Systems. in Sweden. By calling a telephone number hosted by SpeechTime, a user can access information services 24-hours a day, including weather forecasts, stock quotes and traffic information. ScanSoft's RealSpeak is the market-leading product for converting text into human-sounding synthesized speech. The technology is used for a wide range of applications, including 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 (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. ) applications, and speech-enabling mobile, automotive, game and PC/multi-media applications. ScanSoft RealSpeak offers unmatched support for hardware systems, including Hitachi, Intel (Pentium, Strong ARM and XScale), MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. and 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. , as well as operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , including Linux, Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. and Windows CE (Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that use x86, ARM, MIPS and SHx CPUs. Windows CE .NET superseded Windows CE 3.0. , and Sun Solaris. RealSpeak offers a single, standardized application programming interface (API) that enables the deployment of speech-enabled applications in 19 languages: US and UK English, German, French, Dutch & 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 and Cantonese & Mandarin Chinese, Korean and Japanese. "Our in-house speech server platform offers highly competitive services in the areas of Voice Control and the mobile Internet. We just launched a new weather and a new traffic information service in Goteborg. Our customers such as Svenska Dagbladet, SMHI SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute SMHI Sveriges Meteorologiska och Hydrologiska Institut and Kiruna Forskningsturism want the most natural interface," said Hans Wahllof, 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. at SpeechTime. "We have choosen ScanSoft RealSpeak text-to-speech because it provides us with the most natural-sounding speech and a long proven record within the industry." "ScanSoft is pleased to provide the text-to-speech technologies behind this innovative offering, making important information more accessible to people on the road," said Peter Hauser, ScanSoft's senior vice president and general manager, International. "RealSpeak gives access to dynamic information sources and delivers natural-sounding content to users in any location on any device." About SpeechTime SpeechTime is specialized in the area of voice-controlled services since early 2000. The company develops and provides voice-controlled information services by phone. These services are at the crossroads of three rapidly growing fields. SpeechTime is Sweden's leading developer and provider of voice-controlled information services. The company offers operation, maintenance, support and development. SpeechTime is constantly upgrading Speechserver, its in-house systems platform, to ensure state-of-the-art performance. For additional information about SpeechTime, visit www.speechtime.com. 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 and other countries. All other company names or product names referenced herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The Company notes that the statements in this release that relate to future plans, events, performance, including, without limitation, the projected shipment dates and customers' opting to upgrade to newer or more fully featured products, are forward-looking statements subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company's actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, market acceptance, engineering delays, quality assurance testing delays, contractual negotiations, successful completion of beta site testing, the scheduling of orders, changes in operating systems, a significant change in the competitive environment, timely delivery by component suppliers and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports. Readers are cautioned not to place undo reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. |
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