ESIM e-SIM and ART Partner to Offer Combined Solution
JERUSALEM, Jan 8, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- e-SIM (NASDAQ:ESIM), the leader in
advanced simulation technology for product design, Web-based customer support
and marketing, announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership
with ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Ltd., the global leader in Natural
Human Interface technologies.
The partnership will enable the companies to offer customers speech and
handwriting recognition capabilities for product prototypes created with the
RapidPLUS tools and LiveManuals product simulations.
The partnership allows e-SIM to offer customers the ability to include ART's
speaker dependent and speaker independent Speech Recognition products as well as
ART's innovative natural Handwriting input capabilities in simulations of
products such as: cellphones, automotive systems and other products. ART
customers will be able to take advantage of the full prototyping and simulation
capabilities possible with RapidPLUS. RapidPLUS will simulate the devices'
speech and handwriting interface and automatically embed the code using the
RapidPLUS code generation tools. e-SIM and ART will jointly coordinate sales and
marketing initiatives for their complementary solutions.
"This partnership will help ART's customers to easily prototype and develop
their speech and handwriting enabled products," said Nir Ben-Dor, Director of
Sales and Business Development, Europe of ART. "With RapidPLUS, our customers
will be able to ensure that ART's technology is being used in the most efficient
and friendly way."
"This partnership will further help our customers shorten the development time
and improve their products," said Ken Dixon, President, e-SIM Ltd. "We also
believe that in addition to complementing our software in existing markets, this
technology combination will allow us to better address specialized markets such
as the growing market for hands free electronics and electronics for the
physically and visually impaired."
About e-SIM
Founded in 1990, e-SIM Ltd. (http://www.e-sim.com/) is the leading provider of
advanced simulation technology for product development, Web-based customer
support and marketing. e-SIM's simulation technologies build off its RapidPLUS
line of software products that enable product designers and engineers to
expedite the concept-to-market life cycle by easily creating simulated computer
prototypes that are fully functional, interactive and behaviorally identical to
the manufactured products and systems. e-SIM's proprietary technology enables
the creation and distribution of electronic LiveManuals, "virtual products" that
look and behave like real products, over the Internet or intranet. e-SIM's
customer support Web service, LiveManuals (http://www.livemanuals.com),
featuring its proprietary product simulations from multiple manufacturers,
interactive user manuals, personal product folios for easy reference,
comprehensive manufacturer support information and extended warranties.
More About ART's Recognition Technologies
smARTspeak NG - the comprehensive speech recognition solution:
First to successfully combine all Voice Dialing and Control functions for
speaker-independent and speaker-dependent systems, smARTspeak NG's comprehensive
speech recognition algorithm is an all-in-one solution for operation in the
tight processing power environment of today's mass-market mobile devices. The
unique bundle allows OEMs to simply customize preferred functions onto a single
mass-produced model instead of having to choose which technologies to deploy on
new devices.
smARTspeak NG offers 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.
simpliWrite and smARTwriter handwriting recognition solutions:
'Noise robust' to intuitively accept inaccurate or 'trembling' script, with
continuous on-the-fly recognition, ART's best of breed handwriting recognition
technologies have been globally proven by both manufacturers and end-users
alike. With no new characters or symbols to learn, ART's revolutionary solutions
demand no training, but recognize user's own natural handwriting. They currently
support all major Western European languages, and also allow concurrent
multilingual use. These technologies are also self-trainable and adjustable for
special handwriting needs.
About ART
The acknowledged pioneer and market leader in Natural User systems of embedded
Speech and Handwriting Recognition for wireless devices, ART has generated a
decade of software innovation. Today it develops and markets technologically
superior solutions for the control and command 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.
ART's embedded software-only solutions are deployed in dozens of product lines
from industry leaders such as Acer, Agere Systems, A.T. Cross, Casio, Franklin,
GVC, Hitachi, Hutel, Konka, LGE, Maxon, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Motorola,
NeoPoint, OTM Technologies, Panasonic, Pegasus, Persay, Philips, Quanta,
Samsung, Siemens Automotive, and TTPCom.
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.
For more about ART see: artcomp.com
smARTspeak NG(TM) and simpliWrite(TM) are trademarks, and smARTwriter(R) 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.
Certain matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements
that involve a number of risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to,
significant fluctuations and unpredictability of operating results, risks in
product and technology development and rapid technological change, dependence on
a single product line, extent of demand for the Company's product, impact of
competitive products and pricing, market acceptance, lengthy sales cycle,
changing economic conditions, risks of joint development projects, dependence on
key personnel, difficulties in managing growth, risks relating to sales and
distribution, risks associated with international sales, risks of product
defects, dependence on company proprietary technology. For a more detailed
discussion of these and other risk factors, see the Company's Form 20-F as filed
with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
CONTACT: Media:
e-SIM Ltd.
Shaindy Babad
1/888-742-9364
shaindy@e-sim.com
or
ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc.
Roy Timor, +972/3-642-7242, ext. 139
roy@artcomp.com
or
Nir Ben-Dor, +972/3-6427242, ext. 170
nir@artcomp.com
or
Investor:
e-SIM Ltd.
Yaron Eldad, +972/2-587-0770
yaron@e-sim.co.il
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