This from the Yahoo board!!!!!
spy and lucent Msg: 14457 of 14468
by: www_emarkettake_dot_com (24/F/Tampa, FL)
11/5/1999 1:20 pm EST
this is the most recent announment by lucent using spyg technology. I found it by doing a search on lucent's site.
Monday October 12 12:59 PM EDT
Lucent, Spyglass team up on voice Web browsing
SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - A new prototype, developed jointly between Spyglass and Lucent Technologies, allows telephone-based Web browsing using voice control.
The device, on display Monday at a wireless IT conference in Las Vegas, allows users to dial a phone number and then navigate standard Web pages using voice commands, and ``listen' to voice-synthesized pages.
Though the phone browser's content offerings are so far limited to weather, sports scores, and stock quotes, the companies said that a wide range of Web-based services will eventually be accessible.
The phone browser is a joint product of Lucent's speech-recognition and text-to-speech technologies,
and Spyglass Prism, a Web server system that selectively filters Web pages to extract and package content for computing platforms with limited display and interface capabilities.
Spyglass (Nasdaq: SPYG - news) said its system will ignore extraneous text commonly found on Web pages.
``Headlines, related links, advertisements, and the like may add value when a page is viewed on a PC, but it is too much information to deliver via a telephone,' the company said in a statement.
After buying Mosaic -- the Web's first graphical browser -- in 1994, Spyglass licensed it to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news), which then used the code as the basis for Internet Explorer.
In recent times, Spyglass has positioned itself as a company that develops Web-browsing software for so-called ``constrained environments,' including handheld PCs, wireless devices, and set-top boxes.
The companies did not say when the technology will be on the market.
(Reuters/Wired) |
