TTPCom Opts For ART'S Revolutionary Recognition Technology Porting the smARTspeak XG.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ATLANTA & CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2002

TTPCom, a leading supplier of digital wireless communications technology, chooses ART's smARTspeak XG for its popular GPRS platform

Today ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc., global leaders in natural User Interface technologies, and TTPCom Ltd., the world's leading independent supplier of digital wireless communications technology, announced that TTPCom will be porting ART's breakthrough smARTspeak XG(TM) speech recognition technology onto TTPCom's popular GPRS platform.

The announcement renews the companies' joint commitment to provide GSM manufacturers worldwide with the most sophisticated phones available. Simply adding smARTspeak XG to any TTPCom based handset, OEMs improve ease of use without any hardware change, and with no extra integration effort.

The innovative smARTspeak XG is the first embedded, phoneme-based speaker independent name dialing solution designed for mass-market wireless mobile device deployment.

"TTPCom is committed to offering its handset customers the very latest technology. By pre-integrating smARTspeak XG onto the TTPCom platform we reduce product development time, enabling our customers to deliver leading-edge phones quickly," said Neil Werdmuller, 2.5G Applications Product Manager at TTPCom. "smARTspeak XG's breakthrough speaker independent name dialing solution offers users even greater flexibility and we are pleased to be one of the first to carry it on our GPRS platform."

"We are highly confident that TTPCom's global customers will be delighted with the comprehensive range of voice functionality that the revolutionary smARTspeak XG now brings," said Nir Ben-Dor, ART's Director of Sales and Business Development, Europe. "By enhancing TTPCom's already popular GPRS platform, it helps maintain the high standard of technology they offer OEMs and gives TTPCom and its customers a feature that adds true value to their devices."

More About smARTspeak XG

ART's latest technological innovation, the smARTspeak XG is the first embedded, speaker independent name dialing solution to be introduced for mass-market deployment. Based on phonemic identification, the dynamic XG needs no training for instant name dialing, no matter how users structure their command sentences. Thus `Call John Smith in his office' or `John Smith -- office' both provide the same accurate response. Evolving from the smARTspeak NG platform, the XG incorporates the same modular feature-rich functionality of speaker dependent name dialing, speaker independent continuous digit dialing, speaker independent command & control and trainable continuous digit dialing for custom languages.

About TTPCom Ltd

Based in Cambridge, UK, TTPCom Ltd. is the principal operating subsidiary of TTP Communications plc (LSE:TTC). The company develops technology intellectual property used in the design and manufacture of wireless communication terminals. TTPCom licenses its technology to semiconductor manufacturers including Analog Devices, Hitachi, Intel, Matsushita, STMicroelectronics and Toshiba, and to leading terminal manufacturers worldwide.

TTPCom has established an industry standard with its GPRS platform, has developed EDGE, Third Generation (3G) and wireless gaming technology and offers an integrated GSM/Bluetooth(TM) solution. Over 80 separate terminal designs using TTPCom's hardware and software technology have achieved regulatory approval. TTPCom also offers complete handset and module designs for manufacturers seeking to bring products to market quickly but without the risks of development. More information can be found on TTPCom's website at http://www.ttpcom.com.

About ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc.

Established in 1990, ART is the acknowledged market leader in embedded speech and handwriting recognition software for mass-market mobile devices. After a decade of award winning innovation, today ART develops and markets technologically superior solutions for the control and command of mobile devices by the human voice and natural handwriting. ART's proprietary technologies provide next-generation user interface solutions for cellular handsets, smartphones, mobile communicators, PDAs and handhelds, and automotive systems.

Today, ART's embedded software-only solutions are deployed in dozens of product lines from industry leaders such as Panasonic, LGE, Mitsubishi, NEC, Logitech, GVC, Quanta, Compal, Inventec, Acer, Casio, Maxon, Siemens Automotive, Franklin, PaceBlade and others. ART has strategic and technological partnerships with industry leaders including: Texas Instruments, Motorola Semiconductors, Intel, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, Agere Systems, Analog Devices, DSP Group, Parthus CIVA, Microsoft, Symbian, TTPCom, SVOX, Phone-Or, Persay, e-SIM, OTM Technologies, Pegasus, and others.

Based in the United States with sales offices on the East and West Coasts, ART maintains a wholly owned Israeli subsidiary that conducts research and development. Additional information about ART is available at: http://www.artcomp.com

smARTspeak XG(TM) and smARTspeak NG(TM) are trademarks of ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc. Names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.