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"...Alpha Software Reduces Prices on Kurzweil VoicePad, VoicePlus and VoicePro Discrete Speech Products, to Advance Market Leadership
BURLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- In a move to solidify its market leadership position, Alpha Software Corporation, a subsidiary of SoftQuad International Inc. (Nasdaq: SWEBF; Toronto: SKI), today announced that it has reduced the suggested retail prices on the award-winning line of Kurzweil discrete voice dictation products for Windows 95 and Windows 3.1x. The line of products from Lernout & Hauspie include VoicePad, VoicePlus, and VoicePro; these products were developed by Kurzweil AI and are marketed in North America by Alpha Software Corporation...``For users, this is the right move at the right time in this very hot category,'' said Howard March,
vice president of sales, ``We've been able to lead the market with a full line of discrete speech products that meet the needs of a variety of people, from computer users who prefer not to type, to
those who need a hands-free environment to be more productive. These pricing changes will enable us to bring the most powerful voice recognition solutions on the market to an even wider audience.''
The Kurzweil Voice products are available at more than 5,000 selected retail locations nationwide, including CompUSA, Computer City, Best Buy, MicroCenter, EB, Staples, Office Depot, Office Max, Fry's and Egghead.
ABOUT ALPHA SOFTWARE CORPORATION, A SUBSIDIARY OF SOFTQUAD
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Alpha Software Corporation (Alpha Software), based in Burlington, Massachusetts, and SoftQuad Inc. (SoftQuad) based in Toronto, Canada, are wholly owned operating companies of SoftQuad International Inc.
The mission of Alpha Software is two-fold. In a bold move to influence the direction of the Internet, Alpha Software is developing ``thin client'' end user Web database products under the WebFiler
DB(TM) brand (www.webfiler.com).
Additionally, expanding on its tradition of providing solution based software, Alpha now develops and publishes a diverse array of leading products in the utility, business and consumer categories which are sold nationwide through the retail channel.
SoftQuad Inc. provides a broad range of multi-platform, standards-based software tools that help information creators, gatherers and providers create and publish information. SoftQuad is a
founding member and active participant in the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Engineering Task Force and Editorial Review Boards.
SoftQuad International Inc.'s European operations are based in London, with offices in Paris and Munich.
ABOUT LERNOUT & HAUSPIE
Kurzweil is a division of Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (Nasdaq:LHSPF) (L&H), an international leader in the development of advanced speech technology for various commercial applications and products. The company offers four core technologies -- automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to- speech (TTS), text-to-text (translation) and digital speech compression. Its ASR, TTS and digital speech compression technologies are licensed to some of the world's
best-known companies in the telecommunications, computers and multimedia, consumer electronics and automotive electronics industries. Its text-to-text (translation) services are provided to
information technology (IT) companies and vertical and automation markets. Among other efforts, the company is currently working on development of a large vocabulary, speaker-independent, continuous dictation engine..."
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