The Medical Learning Company Chooses NeoSpeech's Text-to-Speech Product to Advance Cutting-Edge Learning System.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2003 VoiceText's Capabilities to Deliver Vanguard Healthcare Technology Company With Enhanced User Experience and Learning NeoSpeech, a provider of speech technologies for hand-held, desktop and network/server applications, today announced that the Medical Learning Company (MLC (MultiLevel Cell) A flash memory technology that stores more than one bit per cell. Traditional flash memory defines a 0 or 1 bit based on a single voltage threshold. ) has selected its Text-to-Speech product, VoiceText(TM), for its SynPatient patient simulator. MLC is a healthcare information technology pioneer, providing products and services to enhance learning in the medical industry. MLC's selection of VoiceText advances the realism, interactivity, and effectiveness of their cornerstone product. "By selecting VoiceText, The Medical Learning Company highlighted the importance of natural-sounding, quality Text-to-Speech in their customers' learning experience," stated Lin Chase, 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 NeoSpeech. MLC has developed the SynPatient, a patent pending proprietary program that is a unique, dynamic and interactive patient simulator, which in its most advanced iteration can generate an unlimited number of virtual patients based on detailed models contained in a medical knowledge base. SynPatient provides realistic evolution, flexible control over the simulated passage of time, real-time image morphing, and continuous voice interaction in a rich multimedia environment featuring images, sounds, video, and voice. To further develop SynPatient's capabilities, the company is working to enhance SynPatient's text-to-text responses with human-like, verbal answers to physicians' diagnostic queries. NeoSpeech's VoiceText makes SynPatient more realistic and engaging, improving physicians' understanding and learning. "We needed a speech engine that could deliver life-like voices capable of expressing human emotions. After an extensive evaluation process that involved testing a broad range of speech engines, NeoSpeech's product stood alone. Additionally, their flexibility and cooperation demonstrated that NeoSpeech would be the ideal partner who could successfully collaborate with us and support our long-term needs," said Todd Graham Todd Graham (born December 5, 1964 in Mesquite, Texas) is the head football coach at the University of Tulsa. He was previously the head coach at Rice University in Houston, Texas. , Vice President of Marketing for MLC. NeoSpeech's VoiceText is the only product of its kind to offer the same high quality voices across all different footprints and across all major platforms. VoiceText generates natural-sounding voices from text input and offers the same text-to-speech solution across handheld, desktop, laptop and network/server applications, while supporting a broad range of industry standard 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. . Available in several languages, VoiceText can process any size or type of text, from reading test questions to complete news stories to personal e-mail, delivering the highest level of accuracy and quality. About The Medical Learning Company The mission of the Medical Learning Company is to utilize advanced proprietary software and integrated solutions to enhance the delivery of medical knowledge for education, training, and testing to help facilitate the highest quality of medical care. The Medical Learning Company was originally founded as a joint venture between the American Board of Family Practice (ABFP ABFP abbr. American Board of Family Practice ) and Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. (KTI KTI Kiinteistötalouden Instituutti (Finnish: Institute for Real Estate Economics) KTI Key Technical Issue KTI Kaney Transportation, Inc. KTI KG-84 Trunk Interface ). The ABFP is the second largest medical specialty medical specialty Any specialty that provides non-interventional Pt management, ie with drugs, or with minimum intervention–eg, balloon catheterization Examples Internal medicine–allergy and immunology, cardiology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, board in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , and serves as the certifying agency for the family practice specialty. KTI is a leading global developer of advanced software technologies and was founded by Ray Kurzweil, recognized throughout the world for many technological firsts. These include the leading speech recognition system for creating medical reports, the first omni-font 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. (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. ), the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first computer music synthesizer synthesizer Machine that electronically generates and modifies sounds, frequently with the use of a digital computer, for use in the composition of electronic music and in live performance. that could realistically recreate the sounds of acoustic instruments, and the first commercially marketed large vocabulary speech recognition software. About NeoSpeech NeoSpeech, Inc. is a leading provider of speech-enabled solutions based on a suite of best-of-breed core capabilities in speech recognition, 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 , speaker verification, and voice animation. The company offers flexible, innovative products for the mobile, enterprise, entertainment and education markets. The privately-held company, headquartered in Fremont, California, is backed by Voiceware Co., Ltd of Korea. Visit www.neospeech.com for more information on NeoSpeech products, solutions and services. |
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