Food for thought... from RB
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By: cksla
Reply To: None Wednesday, 29 Mar 2000 at 8:29 PM EST
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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: INTEL/EDIG/LHSP/ERICY CHRONOLOGY
We envision a future of full featured easy to use portable devices that incorporate large displays where the interface between the user and the device is speech rather than hard to use miniature keyboards or complicated hand writing recognition software. These devices will talk and listen and feature wireless speech communication, speech-to-text/text-to-speech conversion, downloadable music files, downloadable full-motion-video files, and other convergent applications. [fred falk 11/11/99]
1) DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER
SAN DIEGO, August 10, 1998---Norris Communications Inc. (OTC: NCII) today
announced that it has signed an
agreement to design and develop a digital voice recorder for Intel Corporation.
2) April 5, 1999--Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products today announced that Intel Corporation has signed a binding letter of intent to invest $30 million in L&H. Intel and L&H are also discussing possible activities that employ L&H's expertise..."Solutions using our technologies for the Internet and e-commerce are a logical place for us to expand our market segment position."
"Voice and language technologies will help enable a new level of natural interaction with data and computers," said Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group.
3)(SAN DIEGO, CA ? April 13, 1999) ? e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) along with IBM and five other leaders in speech recognition and mobile technologies today announced at the DemoMobile 99 conference the formation of the Voice Technology Initiative for Mobile Enterprise Solutions (VoiceTIMES). VoiceTIMES' goal is to coordinate the technical requirements needed for companies to build and deploy solutions using voice technologies and handheld mobile devices. Inaugural VoiceTIMES alliance members include Dictaphone, e.Digital, IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Norcom Electronics, Olympus, and Philips (NYSE: PHG).The coalition will decide how to digitally compress voice and transmit that information from one device to another, IBM said. With the new standards, dictation-machine users will be able to set up a calendar or record a memo to be sent as electronic mail, IBM said. The coalition hopes to expand these capabilities to other devices, such as cellular phones and hand-held computers
similar to 3Com Corp.'s PalmPilot. ``This is a stepping-stone in the vision of taking these hand-held devices and doing more than dictation,' said Ozzie Osborne, general manager of IBM Speech Systems.
4) April 13,1999- Intel's VP Whittier stated: ?e.Digital has been innovating advanced digital mobile solutions for the business dictation and medical industry for the last three years. We believe VoiceTIMES will allow e.Digital to expand development of mobile information gathering devices employing speech and leverage our product designs into many additional industry solutions."
-- Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group
5) May 6, 1999 Intel Corp. and Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products Thursday signed a joint venture deal to develop e-commerce and telephony solutions using the Belgian company's speech and language technologies.
The new venture will combine voice recognition tools and automated translation in computing platforms. "Combining Intel's leadership in the high performance, connected computing platforms together with L&H's leading technologies presents exciting possibilities for web-based products and services," said Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group.
"A voice interface presents a natural, intuitive method for people to get the information they need -- via PCs, connected smart devices, and the telephone," said Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group. "The combined technologies of L&H and Intel can to make e-commerce and other applications more attractive by supporting natural speech commands, human-sounding synthesized speech, accurate machine translation and faster, simpler data query and retrieval," said Jo Lernout, co-founder of Lernout & Hauspie.
6) 6/28/99 Falk newsletter: Our Intel product design will also be an important technical achievement for our team. A number of prototypes are being developed to Intel's specifications; they include PC downloading capabilities and can interact with third-party software that performs voice-to-text functions and text-to-voice functions. The integration of these functions with convenient hand-held devices is proving to be a rapid growth area for both business and personal use. We are positioned to take advantage of these growth areas with a highly advanced, full-featured product.
7) July 15, 1999) ? e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) announced today that Skip Matthews, Ph.D., will join its Board of Directors effective August 1. Dr. Matthews joins e.Digital's Board upon retirement from a distinguished 25-year career with Intel Corporation with his last position being Senior Project Development Manager.
Mr. Matthews stated, "I was attracted to e.Digital because they were the first to adopt flash memory in an audio recorder. There is great potential for further application of e.Digital's technology in Internet music players and even more advanced audio applications such as speech-to-text and text-to-speech systems."
8) 8/30/99 Falk newsletter update: We are continuing to make significant progress on the Intel voice recorder prototypes with the project taking some interesting new turns into areas of new technology development that we expect will be very beneficial to e.Digital. We remain on track with IBM, Intel, Philips and our other VoiceTIMES Alliance partners in setting new protocols for voice recording in portable digital devices. Because of the structure of this alliance, it is expected that founder IBM will take the lead in announcing progress and developments.
9) 9/30/99 similar Falk update- We have made substantial progress on our contract with Intel for advanced voice recorder prototypes. The project has taken interesting turns into areas of new technology and new OEM relationships.
10) 10/27/99 Voice Technology Initiative for Mobile Enterprise Solutions (VoiceTIMES)
IBM has created the first audio specifications for digital mobile recorders and speech recognition applications in the enterprise, making it easier and more cost-effective for mobile users to compute anytime/anywhere with any device. The open specifications offer technical guidelines for companies integrating voice technology into their mobile solutions and enterprise computing software and were created to accelerate the acceptance of speech technology as a common interface for mobile devices such as digital recorders, Smart Phones and most hand-held devices.
11) 11/99 edig SH mtg "Our Intel relationship has taken some interesting turns in new technology and new OEM relationships. Our business is built on relationships, and a part of our business is honoring confidentiality of new product plans, launch dates and proprietary information. Due to our Non-Disclosure Agreement with Intel, we are not at liberty to discuss details of these new technologies and relationships at this meeting. During the coming calendar year, we expect to unveil what we have been working on over the last several months. "e.Digital's technology and engineering services are proliferating into several key markets including the Internet, consumer electronics and the PC sector.
12) 11/11/99 FALK's presentation at JUSTRI:
Surveying the state of the art in voice technology applications today, developments by such companies as IBM, Dragon Systems, Lernout & Hauspie, AT&T, and Microsoft are enabling new time-saving applications not only for voice command recognition, but also for language translation, speech to text and text to speech. According to Moore's Law, computing power doubles every 18 months and will continue to do so for at least the next 6 years. Taking advantage of this computing power, future computers will be able to translate hidden meaning by deciphering changes in intonation that signal anger, sarcasm, joy, fear, or excitement. Today our interaction with computers is mostly limited to typing and reading. Our future interface with computers will be talking and listening, often utilizing portable devices.
Portable digital devices today are at a similar point in the development cycle as the cellular phone industry was seven years ago. People want to have portable access to the same Internet experience they're currently having at their desktop. The rising generation is already accustomed to and expects instant access to a vast world of information. Anything less than instant gratification of their information and entertainment needs is unacceptable to them. New generations of portable devices and computers will be expected to meet these demands.
As increased bandwidth becomes available, standards are established, and pricing remains competitive, our industry will explode as numerous convergent technologies become available to every consumer in the palms of their hands. We envision a future of full featured easy to use portable devices that incorporate large displays where the interface between the user and the device is speech rather than hard to use miniature keyboards or complicated hand writing recognition software. These devices will talk and listen and feature wireless speech communication, speech-to-text/text-to-speech conversion, downloadable music files, downloadable full-motion-video files, and other convergent applications.
13) 12/20/99 Falk newsletter In addition to Internet music, e.Digital is working with standards relating to still pictures, full-motion video, text, and/or voice, integrating emerging technology and standards into portable devices according to the needs of our OEM customers. Voice technology is emerging and will become the standard interface with products of all varieties. Streaming video of 2-6 minutes is becoming available for portable devices and we expect portable, downloadable video technology to become available over the next twelve months.
14) 12/24/99 Charles Brown of INTEL "The Driving Need for Flash Software management in Wireless". Flash memory requires software management to function efficiently. OEMs/Designers must turn to a comprehensive software manager to balance handset cost with the data storage needs of feature rich wireless appliances. Memory management needs to perform a variey of tasks such as invalid data management, power-loss recovery and wear leveling.
xx) January 5, 2000 Intel Moves From Windows With Line of Web Devices Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are straying further apart in the emerging market for non PC "appliances" that tap into the Internet. Intel is expected to announce Wednesday a brand of Web appliances that don't use its longtime partner's Windows operating software. Instead, the new devices will run on the Linux operating system, which many customers are concluding is ideal for simple Web-surfing machines.
xx) 1/12/00 Falk AOL interview ...with the convergence of voice, data, music, still pictures and full motion video, numerous companies are interested in putting to market single devices that incorporate these technologies. The days of people carrying a single cell phone, pager, organizer, music player are going away. Our vision of the future of these devices is that we will communicate with them via voice rather than hand based systems or miniature keyboards. These devices will need to have larger displays, fewer buttons, and be user friendly. We seek to incorporate all major emerging technologies for an OEM to come to us, build their device quickly and get it to market.
xx) 1/25/00 Falk interview: In reply to a e-mail question RE: is Micro O/S imbedded in Intel chips ...he said "it's not in there today"... but "I can't comment on that".
xx) 1/31/00 Falk newsletter: MicroOS is a pure software flash file management system that is compact yet robust, and incorporates such features as:
Wear leveling - dictates use of cells within the flash to prevent uneven wear
Power management - important in portable, battery-powered devices
User interface - enables record, edit, insert, delete, play, fast forward and rewind functions with an intuitive command set
Bad block management - enables use of flash even if sectors become unusable
(Read in light of Intel's Brown's comments)
xx) Recent advertisement: Today the uses for Flash Memory are rapidly increasing. Whether it's digital cameras, palmtops, Portable Digital Assistants (PDAs), digital music players, or cellular phones; they all need a reliable and easy way to store and transport vital information. That's why Flash Memory has quickly become one of today's hottest portable storage technologies. It's more flexible than a floppy and can store up to 160MB of data. It's more rugged and much faster than a hard drive, and, unlike RAM, Flash Memory can retain data even when the power is turned off. Flash Memory is ideal for dozens of portable applications. Take digital cameras. By inserting a high capacity Flash Memory card directly into a camera, you can store hundreds of high-resolution images. When ready to output, simply pull the card out and transfer it to your desktop, portable or handheld computer for processing.
xx) February 4, 2000 Intel Corporation and Ericsson today announced that Intel will provide Ericsson the next generation of high-performance flash memory for cellular phones, and that the companies will team on flash product definition for future wireless devices, such as Internet-enabled mobile phones.
The agreement between Ericsson and Intel includes a three-year commitment by Ericsson to purchase Intel?s flash memory devices. In addition the companies will work together to define flash products capable of storing code and data such as Web pages, e-mail, voice and music. The agreement will enable Ericsson to bring to market new products that support content and services made possible by the upcoming third generation (3G) networks, which will combine voice and Internet capabilities into wireless handheld devices.
xx) February 7, 2000 Lernout & Hauspie wants PDA users to talk to the hand. The prototype, code-named Nuk, incorporates three innovations: It is the first handheld to include a large-vocabulary speech-recognition engine, it runs on a mobile version of the Linux operating system, and it uses Intel's next-generation StrongArm II low-power chip for handheld devices. The Nuk is expected to ship by the end of the year. devices. "Running on the Linux operating system and powered by an [Intel] StrongARM processor, the company's prototype puts it in the middle of the rapidly emerging market of information appliances, scaled-down computing devices that stand out by being simple to use. Some analysts and industry executives, for instance, believe cell phones with built-in organizers will become a hot commodity, a notion that others scoff at. In addition, speech recognition, which until recently required too much processing power and memory capacity to work well on desktop computers, may be too demanding an application for devices with much smaller hardware capabilities and issues with battery.
Voice recognition, however, is a natural method for input for handhelds, the company maintains. Using the Lernout & Hauspie continuous speech recognition engine, users can dictate and send emails using voice commands. In addition, the technology allows users to do simple Web searches, process e-commerce transactions, and conduct online stock trades, all using the wireless Internet connection and voice commands. "It's interesting to see dictation on a handheld, because users aren't going to be wanting devices they can't interact with."
xx) Balrog quote: We must realize that the future VTT/TTV devices are going to incorporate removable flash memory. Also that the way these voice controlled devices will work is if you want the device to do something you will have to speak a command to it like, " read email. " When you give that command, the device will record your words into the removable flash memory chip and then be acted upon by the
voice algorithims in a program like IBM's ViaVoice software.
xx) 3/00 0.18 flash memory supports the cellular boom
by Charles Brown Wireless Marketing Program Engineer
Intel Corporation
Next-generation phones will include an Internet browser so that users can download information from the Internet or corporate intranets. The phone can send and receive short text messages and synchronize messages and personal information entries with the personal computer. With the voice-activated speed dialing feature, callers can access hundreds of numbers by pressing a button and speaking a name. A built-in digital recorder can take dictation or record a message.
xx) From LHSP's website: LHSP Partners re Mobile Devices
Cellport Hitachi Ericsson Seiko Lucent Technologies Intel Corporation
xx) 3/14/00 Falk newsletter: Voice Recording Technology
In addition to an Internet music player design, e.Digital has portable voice recording technology which we license to OEM customers for business and dictation use. Developments in the speech technology industry continue to open doors for us. Advances in voice-to-text programs and voice command recognition programs from third parties (such as IBM, Lernout & Hauspie, and Dragon Systems) make new product categories possible. Powerful systems connected to phone lines and/or PC's, formerly the exclusive territory of huge conglomerates, are becoming more accessible to smaller businesses and individuals. Our portable digital voice recording technology is capable of interacting with these systems so that consumers do not have to be out of touch with their desktop speech technology even when they are away from their desks.
As illustrated by Lernout & Hauspie's recent purchase of Dictaphone, we are seeing important developments in the speech technology industry. Hardware companies and software companies are joining forces and combining technology to make the most of this emerging market. We can add portable capability to these systems. We continue to devote research, development, and marketing efforts to applications for our technology in this area.
Most laptop and palmtop computers are still too complex for most consumers. We expect future portable products to emerge with larger screens, no keyboards or electronic "pens", using voice-prompted, and/or voice-activated programs for storage, retrieval and playback of data. These products will take advantage of technology to make the user interface more natural and make products easier for nontechnical consumers to use. Our engineers are focusing their efforts in this exciting new arena.
xx) 3/20/00 interview with LHSP IR: L&H currently has 75 patents, with a number of patents pending, amongst others for the Nak, the small handheld device running on Linux, which allows you to use it as a telephone, access the Internet and do e-commerce, and as a PDA (such as Psion etc) with full dictation capabilities, all this without a keyboard and with voice controls and TTS feedback.
xx) 3/26/00 Jimee11: Linux does not provide adequate support for power consumption in a handheld and is not proficient at memory management - especially flash memory.
Now, I strongly believe that when e.Digital & gang alluded to Linux as being an OS they could work with, this was a positive confirmation of things to come.
xx) 3/28/00 -- LHSP agreed to buy Dragon Systems Inc., its leading U.S. competitor, for about $593 million in stock to form the biggest maker of speech-recognition software for consumers. It's a very good move -- The takeover will prevent Lernout's competitors, which include International Business Machines Corp. and Royal Philips Electronics NV, from buying Dragon.
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