""You can put a different wrapper around the core design of this thing, to make it look any way you want," says Falk. "Companies are going to differentiate their players through their looks and features. Some will have the ability to do voice recording, some will have an FM radio, some might even want a stopwatch."
That's important because e.Digital needs to be able to license its design to competing companies.
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What OEM want to market an MP3 player with a stopwatch built in?
Could Falk be referring to MEMO? Remember this old news release:
Voice It Worldwide, Inc. Announces Patent Grant; Patent to be Issued for Voice Recognition Timekeeping Devices
FORT COLLINS, Colo., Dec. 17, 1997 /PRNewswire/ -- Voice It Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEMO) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark office has indicated that a patent will issue for a voice recognition timekeeping device patent application filed by the Company. Contained in the scope of the patent are speech recognition command and query for portable and tabletop clock products, using both speaker independent and user trainable voice recognition. Fundamental to the patent claims is the ability to record information and then query that information through voice commands. Also included in the patent are claims covering calendar, time zone, alarms and other information which could have application in a variety of convenient portable, tabletop and installed timekeeping products to allow direct access to timekeeping features through speech recognition. Dennis W. Altbrandt, Chief Executive Officer of Voice It, stated, "This patent is one of a series of patent applications filed by Voice It Worldwide in the past several years covering a wide variety of digital recording and communications products and technologies. The voice recognition timekeeping device patent that we should soon receive has broad application and can lead to a number of interesting and useful products activated through voice recognition."
Here is the patent: patents.ibm.com |
