PRESS RELEASE - Fonix on Windows CE
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Press Release
Fonix Demonstrates at Embedded Systems Conference
Fonix Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Now Available on Microsoft Windows CE
Salt Lake City, Utah - February 28, 2000 -- Fonix Corporation announced today that it will present its FAAST (Fonix Application Accelerator Speech Toolkit) at the Spring Embedded Systems Conference February 28 ð March 2, in Chicago, Illinois at the McCormick Center South.
Microsoft has selected Fonix for inclusion in its Partners Pavilion at the Spring Embedded Systems Conference to demonstrate rapid application deployment of speech recognition and text-to-speech applications running in the Windows CE environment.
"Microsoft is impressed with the speech recognition and text-to speech products that Fonix has developed," said Don Chouinard, marketing manager of Windows CE OS and Tools at Microsoft Corp. "Windows CE is designed to be a rich, yet flexible, operating system offering complete solutions that help developers get their products to market quicker, and the FAAST rapid application tool from Fonix will help developers do just that."
"As part of Microsoft's Embedded Tools Partners program, Fonix has been able to rapidly port to CE and now is positioned to immediately provide speech and handwriting recognition to customers using the CE operating system," said Thomas A. Murdock, president and CEO of Fonix. "Our FAAST Embedded 1.0 rapid application development tool will allow developers to select a platform, build a speech program, then download it to their target processor running on Windows CE. This is a significant leap forward in implementing speech in embedded environments now - today."
Fonix will have available at the conference pre-release demonstration CDs of FAAST.
Fonix offers rapid recognition, speaker independent, noise tolerant speech solutions, in addition to the most natural, human quality text-to-speech available. With small memory footprints and low power requirements, Fonix core technologies are currently ported to seven different microprocessors and are being deployed in embedded applications and products.
Demonstrations at the conference provide thousands of developers the opportunity to witness speech technology running on chips currently available in the marketplace. |
