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No Walls to Success -- ART's smARTspeak NG™ Taken for Agere Systems GPRS Wireless Platform
Added: (Mon Sep 03 2001)
ART’s innovative smARTspeak NG is integrated into Agere Systems leading GSM/GPRS platform design
Contact:
Yakov Shulman
ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Ltd.
+972-3-642-7242, ext. 113
yakov@artcomp.com
Gabi Artzi
ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc.
+1-805-581-3999
gabia@artcomp.com
Atlanta, USA, September 3, 2001. Today ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc., a global leader in natural Human User Interface technologies, announced a new step in its successful cooperation with Optimay GmbH, a leading developer of wireless software technology and subsidiary of Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A). Beginning immediately, its breakthrough smARTspeak NG will be adding a new dimension to Agere’s General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-enabled platform design for wireless phones by combining established voice-enabled features such as name and continuous digit dialing with new speaker-independent digit dialing functions.
The innovative smARTspeak NG is one of the first products to successfully combine all the familiar voice-recognition functions usually found on either speaker-independent or speaker-dependent systems. Especially designed for the tight processing-power environment of today’s mass-market cellular handsets, ART’s all-in-one bundle gives mobile phone manufacturers a critical differentiating factor for increasing their share of global markets with minimal effort and investments -- thus making it perfect for Agere’s GSM/GPRS platform design.
"Voice-controlled functions are becoming more of a standard convenience feature in today’s wireless phones, especially as regulations for using mobile phones in cars get more strict and safety becomes more of an issue," said Arno Filbig, marketing director with Agere Systems. "Our long-standing cooperation with ART enables us to offer our customers a complete GSM/GPRS platform design with highly advanced pre-integrated software solutions to satisfy this market requirement."
"We are confident that Agere’s global customers will be delighted with the comprehensive range of voice functionality that the revolutionary smARTspeak NG now brings to the Agere platform," said Yakov Shulman, ART’s VP Sales. "By enhancing their offering of world-class technologies, it helps power them into today’s highly competitive marketplace."
More About smARTspeak NG
The latest of ART’s market-proven technologies, smARTspeak NG’s fully integrated voice recognition algorithm is among the world’s first comprehensive next generation solutions. Offering true speaker independent continuous digit dialing, with the additional capability to adapt to each user’s voice, the smARTspeak NG UI provides complete voice activation experiences currently available for deployment across the full range of mass-market mobile devices.
The bundle's specific technology means that instead of having to choose between speaker-dependent or independent features, OEMs can now simply deploy the one embedded software on all new cellular handsets, and customize whichever functions are required.
Combining a decade of ART’s award-winning technologies, smARTspeak NG‘s leading-edge developments offer voice-enabled features such as name dialing, continuous digit dialing, menu navigation and device control. It also includes ART’s latest innovation: a Speaker Independent Digit Dialing function with adaptation possibility for heavily accented International English - or any other language spoken with dialect. This simple 30-second adaptation allows further personalization according to the needs of each user.
More About ART
Established in 1990, ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc., is the acknowledged pioneer and market leader in Natural User systems of embedded Voice and Handwriting Recognition for mobile devices. ART has generated a decade of software innovation and today develops and markets technologically superior solutions for the control and command of the full range of mobile devices by the human voice and natural handwriting.
Through its range of proprietary technologies based on unique, signal-processing algorithms, ART provides next-generation human 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 Acer, A.T. Cross, Casio, Franklin, GVC, Hutel, Konka, LGE, Maxon, Microsoft, Motorola, NeoPoint, Agere Systems' Optimay GmbH subsidiary, Panasonic, Philips, Quanta, Samsung, Siemens Automotive and others.
Based in the United States, with sales offices on the East and West Coasts, ART maintains a wholly owned Israeli subsidiary -- ART Ltd. -- where research and development are conducted. ART is active in the US, European, and Asian markets.
smARTspeak NG™ is a trademark of ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. Names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
For more about ART, see: http://www.artcomp.com or contact Yakov Shulman, VP Sales at yakov@artcomp.com.