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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
New Interactive Demo Lounge Will Put the Power of Speech in Consumer’s Hands
Lexington, KY – July 13, 2005 – Attendees at this year’s annual SpeechTEK Conference and Exhibition, will have the opportunity to put the power of speech technologies in the palm of their hand – quite literally. SpeechTEK 2005’s first, ”Hot, Cool and Retooled,” interactive demonstration area will highlight how speech technologies are retooling many of today’s popular consumer electronic devices to introduce some of the hottest, coolest advancements for PDAs, games, mobile phones and other handheld devices. The “Hot, Cool and Retooled” demo lounge is the only venue where consumers, device manufacturers and developers can learn about and interact with innovative, speech-enabled consumer devices.
The interactive demo lounge will showcase speech applications designed exclusively for consumer electronic devices. Attendees will be guided through a hands-on exploration of speech-enabled devices that are reshaping the consumer electronics market. Many of the speech applications designed for consumer devices target a specific demographic - such as the visually impaired or teen market - or are designed to create a more agreeable or superior user interaction. A variety of speech applications will be showcased at the “Hot, Cool and Retooled” Demo Lounge, including the following:
Cepstral will demonstrate its small footprint text-to-speech (TTS) voices running on WinCE, Symbian, Palm OS, and Embedded Linux. Cepstral offers high-quality TTS voices in six languages and a range of sizes from two MB on handhelds to 100 MB on server configurations.
IBM WebSphere® Multimodal Environment can help users escape from the jungle of remote controls. By combining the visual and voice Webs together, users can more easily utilize their consumer devices to simply ask for their urgent email and have them be displayed instantly, or perhaps ask for tunes by Shania Twain, or for foreign films being played this upcoming weekend to record.
Kirusa will showcase multimodal applications that enable mobile phone subscribers to send an SMS message with their voice or play an interactive word game using their voice as a “third hand” to find hidden words in a grid. A third application lets brokerage customers conduct transactions from their mobile phones by speaking into the phone and seeing the results on their screen.
Loquendo will present assistive applications for the visually impaired that were developed using the company’s latest multilingual embedded technologies and expressive text-to-speech on mobile phones and PDA.
The SpeechWorks division of ScanSoft will demonstrate its market-leading screen reader application. The SpeechPAK TALKS Premium Edition converts the display text of a cellular handset into highly intelligible speech, providing extensive feature accessibility for blind and visually impaired individuals as well as greater convenience for all users.
Converser for Healthcare, a revolutionary and ground-breaking interpreting system from Spoken Translation, Inc., is the world's first two-way, cross-lingual, interpretation product for a PC tablet. Whether choosing to type, handwrite or speak, users can input English and instantly hear and see Spanish - and vise-versa.
VoiceSignal is setting the standard for speaker-independent speech recognition solutions for mobile devices. VoiceSignal will showcase its products including VSuite which is the de facto standard for voice dialing/voice commands, and VoiceMode which is setting a new standard for voice-to-text input on mobile devices. VoiceSignal’s solutions for mobile devices are small footprint, easy-to-use, and have demonstrated the ability to increase operator revenues through increasing device usage by end users.
The “Hot, Cool and Retooled” demo lounge will be open on Tuesday, August 2, 2005 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. outside of the Expo Hall on the fifth floor at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.
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