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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
PrairieComm Partners with ART
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill – September 27, 2004. PrairieComm, Inc., a leading developer and supplier of 3G-baseband processors and communications software, today announced it has partnered with ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, a leading provider of voice interface solutions for the mobile communications industry, to enable integration of the smARTspeak product line into PrairieComm’s FronTier 3G reference phone platforms.
“The addition of ART’s industry-leading speech recognition solutions into our FronTier 3G reference phone platforms demonstrates our continued commitment to enabling a full-featured but affordable 3G handset,” said Jeff Bennett, director of 3G Marketing, PrairieComm, Inc. “We look forward to working with ART to make that happen.”
“This is an excellent combination of advanced technologies,” said Gabi Artzi, director of sales and business development for ART. “PrairieComm is fast becoming a leader in providing 3G chipsets for the new generation of multimedia phones. Now, the smARTspeak product line brings the industry’s best voice control and speech interface to the FronTier platforms for the ultimate 3G capability.”
ART software adds a complete suite of speech recognition capabilities including: speaker-independent and speaker-dependent name dialing, continuous digit dialing, and command and control, to PrairieComm’s FronTier 3G reference phone platforms. The agreement allows FronTier customers to incorporate either smARTspeak, smARTspeak NG, smARTspeak XG, or smARTspeak XGT into their handset design. In addition, PrairieComm and ART will work to integrate the smARTspeak product line into the appropriate user interfaces for the FronTier application framework.
FronTier offers ODMs and OEMs a complete, integrated form factor hardware design and an integrated application framework that meets the demands of 3G operators worldwide. The multimedia-rich 3G reference phone platform also boasts a bill of materials similar to existing 2.5G handsets enabling mass-market 3G data phones. ART’s smARTspeak products will first be available on the FronTier110 platform, a UMTS/GSM/GPRS form factor platform for low-end multimedia feature phones.
About PrairieComm
PrairieComm, Inc. (www.prairiecomm.com), based in Rolling Meadows, Ill., develops and markets chipsets, embedded software and licensed intellectual property for TDMA, GSM, CDMA, EDGE, and UMTS (WCDMA). PrairieComm’s innovative products are at the heart of wireless personal communications providing chipsets for mobile wireless products from the world’s leading consumer electronics manufacturers.
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, Emblaze mobile, GVC, Capitel, Quanta, 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, Freescale, Intel, Infineon, Agere, ADI, TTPCom, DSPG, Ceva, Microsoft, Symbian, UIQ, Series 60, SVOX, Accelent Systems, Renesas, Persay, e-sim, Broadcom, Clarity, Teleca, 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 www.artcomp.com
smARTspeak is a registered trademark of ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc. Names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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