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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
ART Launches smARTspeak XGT on Series 60 Platform
ATLANTA--July 20, 2004--ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, a leading provider for voice interface solutions for mobile devices, today launched the smARTspeak(R) XGT embedded speech interface solution on the Series 60 Platform. Developed by Nokia, Series 60 is the world's leading smartphone platform, with millions of devices already in the market.
Featuring the industry's most advanced speech recognition technology for wireless phones and mobile devices, smARTspeak XGT is now available for Series 60 smartphones via ART. The Series 60 smartphone architecture provides users with all the basic and advanced cellular phone functions in a compact device characterized by a large color screen, rich communications, and enhanced applications.
The smARTspeak XGT is fully speaker-independent, meaning there is no need for training and speech recognition can be operated by any user "right out of the box." The smARTspeak XGT also adds a new voice feedback capability that gives users audio confirmation of spoken names, numbers, and other commands. This is done by "reading" from the phone's contacts list using ART's advanced text-to-speech technology - delivering a true hands-free and eyes-free solution.
"Speaker-independent voice control is the logical next step in the development of the smartphone," said Eran Aharonson, CEO of ART. "With its integration of smARTspeak XGT, the Nokia Series 60 has set a new standard for how smartphones will continue to evolve and we expect the market opportunities to be significant over the next five years and beyond."
Nokia created the Series 60 Platform and licenses it to leading cell phone vendors Panasonic, Samsung, Sendo, and Siemens, who together with Nokia make up nearly two-thirds of global cell phone sales. Series 60 devices feature large, high-resolution screens with up to 65,000 colors, at least 4MB of memory, and support thousands of software titles.
The advanced features of the smARTspeak XGT offers the possibility of activating all the phone functionality by voice, creating voice user interface for the phone. It enables users of these phones to dial by speaking a person's name or phone number. Giving equally fast and accurate response whether users say "John Smith" or "Dial 1202111002", smARTspeak XGT maintains ART's popular out of-the-box, multi-user experience. In addition, the phone recognizes commands such as "contact" and "redial", as well as direct access for web pages, and offers trainable digit dialing that can be adjusted to a user's accent.
About the Series 60 Platform
The Series 60 Platform brings open standards and multi-vendor support to the smartphone market. Series 60 devices offer users powerful features such as Internet browsing, multimedia communications, and audio and video streaming, plus the ability to play graphics-intensive games and tap into corporate servers to expand the presence and capabilities of enterprise applications. To date, nine Series 60 devices from five manufacturers have been announced.
About ART Advanced Recognition Technologies
Established in 1990, ART is the acknowledged market leader in embedded speech and handwriting recognition software for mass-market mobile devices. With a decade of award-winning innovation behind it, ART develops and markets technologically superior solutions for the control and command of mobile devices through the human voice and natural handwriting. The company'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 Motorola, LGE, Xelibri by Siemens, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, NEC, BenQ, Pogo, Logitech, AlphaCell, GVC, Capitel, Qanta, Compal, Inventec, Casio, Maxon, RAKS, Siemens Automotive, Franklin, PaceBlade, Hitachi, Sierra Wireless and others. ART has strategic and technological partnerships with industry leaders including: Texas Instruments, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, Motorola Semiconductors, Intel, Infineon, Agere, ADI, TTPCom, DSPG, Ceva, Microsoft, Symbian, UIQ, SVOX, Accelent Systems, Renesas, Persay, e-sim, Broadcom, Clarity, Teleca 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
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