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Voice Control Systems and Siemens Join Technologies to Deliver
Speech-Enabled Services to Telephone Companies Around the Globe
DALLAS (March 19) BUSINESS WIRE -March 19, 1998
VCS' Advanced Speech Recognition Technology Renders Highest
Quality, Most Complete Foreign Language Offering to the World's
Leading Supplier of Telephone Switching Systems
--Voice Control Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:VCSI), a leading developer of speech recognition and speech software
platforms, and Siemens Public Communication Networks Group, one of the world's leading providers of solutions for
telecommunications infrastructure systems, today announced that they have successfully completed the integration of
VCS' speech recognition technology with Siemens' EWSD digital telephone switching system. This integration is the base
to provide more than 180 telephone companies in 93 countries with advanced, speech-enabled subscriber services,
resulting in more convenient, user-friendly, globally available telephone services.
"We needed an extremely robust and accurate speech recognition solution that would support our customers all over the
world," said Dr. Peter Tollkuehn, technical director, Siemens Public Communication Networks. "We decided to integrate
VCS' technology into the EWSD system because it meets our requirements concerning the accuracy rate of word
recognition, and it opens the access to the most complete offering of languages in the industry."
Using high-density discrete digits and commands recognition, the same technology found in VCS' SpeechWave(TM)
Fundamental speech software platform, Siemens will provide an EWSD integrated voice processing system for the
deployment of a wide variety of interactive voice response applications to telephone companies around the world.
These capabilities will allow end-users to control various enhanced subscriber services such as call forwarding and
screening and the automation of operator services, using the most natural form of communication available, speech.
"VCS' speech recognition technology delivers to global markets the most accurate speech databases encompassing the
largest number of foreign languages," said Peter Foster, president and chief executive officer, Voice Control Systems.
"Our unique approach to building internationally deployable speech recognizers sets the standard in delivering
exceptional accuracy and noise tolerant recognition across accents and dialects," continued Foster. "Through VCS'
work with Siemens, many international markets will gain access to IVR functionality which will encourage the
acceptance and global application of speech recognition in mainstream business communities."
Voice Control Systems is a leading speech software platform provider, offering vocabularies in over 50 languages with
more than 2.5 million recognizers, including 500,000 in telecom, installed in 30 countries. Speech-driven applications
using VCS products are used today in telecommunications, automotive, consumer electronics, and interactive multimedia
software to enable computers and electronic devices to understand and process human speech. VCS is headquartered
in Dallas, Texas, with regional offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Portsmouth, England. The company's stock is
traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol VCSI. For more information visit the company's web
site at voicecontrol.com.
Siemens Public Communication Networks Group is one of the world's leading providers of solutions for
telecommunications infrastructure systems. In 1997, the group had revenues of 14.5 billion DM and 35,000 employees.
With over 150 million telephone lines in EWSD technology, Siemens Public Communication Networks Group is a world
market leader in digital switching systems. Visit the web site of Siemens Public Communication Networks group at
oen.siemens.de. |
