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(BSNS WIRE) PulsePoint Communications Signs Licensing Agreement With Ler
PulsePoint Communications Signs Licensing Agreement With Lernout & Hauspie
Speech Products; PulsePoint Communications Leads with Speech-enabled Enhanced
Services Solutions
Business & Technology Editors
CARPINTERIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 1998--PulsePoint
Communications (Nasdaq/NM:PLPT) Wednesday announced a multi-year
licensing agreement with Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H)
(Nasdaq/NM:LHSPF) (Easdaq:LHSP-ED.).
L&H is a worldwide market leader in speech and linguistic
technologies, products and services. Under the terms of the agreement,
PulsePoint Communications will license L&H software technology for
integration onto the PulsePoint Enhanced Application Platform for use
with its Communication-Management Suite of Applications and any third
party application that resides on the platform.
PulsePoint will first integrate L&H's carrier-grade
text-to-speech synthesizer, which will allow subscribers to access
text-based content when connected to a PulsePoint system from any
telephone, landline or wireless. Popular applications for
text-to-speech processing include spoken retrieval of e-mail messages
and Internet content, such as Web pages or stock quotes, through a
telephone.
"We are excited to participate in PulsePoint's fundamentally
different approach to enhanced services," said Gerald Calabrese,
president of L&H's Core Technology Division, L&H. "Our companies share
a common vision that speech processing plays an integral role in
unified messaging and the next generation of enhanced services."
Earlier this year PulsePoint introduced the world's first
open-system, carrier-grade, enhanced services solution. At that time
DataQuest issued a wakeup call to the industry. Both NEXTLINK
Communications and GTE Corp. have announced plans for central office
deployments of the PulsePoint solution.
"Speech processing enables services that are basically impossible
with traditional telephone interfaces. By incorporating speech
processing onto our platform, our applications become much easier to
use," said Mark Ozur, president and CEO of PulsePoint Communications.
"We chose L&H technology because their text-to-speech engine is widely
recognized as one of the most natural speech synthesizers on the
market today."
About PulsePoint Communications
PulsePoint Communications (formerly Digital Sound Corp.) develops
carrier-grade solutions for progressive and competitive
telecommunication service providers. The PulsePoint Enhanced
Application Platform and Communication-Management Suite of
Applications, introduced in February of this year, is the world's
first carrier-grade, Internet-ready, open-system solution, based on
the Microsoft Windows NT Server operating system.
Users of PulsePoint Communications' enhanced services
applications enjoy any time, anywhere, any device-access to messages
and a full range of features that put them in control of their
communications.
The PulsePoint solution: radically original, fundamentally
different.
PulsePoint Communications has headquarters near Santa Barbara,
Calif. with service and support offices in Europe and Asia. Corporate
headquarters is located at 6307 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, Calif.
93013; tel: 805/566-2000; fax: 805/684-2848: Internet: www.plpt.com.
PulsePoint Communications is currently traded on the Nasdaq National
Market under the symbol PLPT. PulsePoint is ISO-9001 registered.
About Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
L&H is a global leader in advanced speech and language solutions
for computers, automobiles, telecommunications, embedded products,
consumer goods and the Internet.
The company is making the speech user interface (SUI) the
keystone of simple, convenient interaction between humans and
technology, and is using advanced translation technology to break down
cultural barriers.
L&H's products and services originate in four basic areas:
automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), digital
speech and music compression (SMC), and text-to-text (translation).
For more information, visit L&H on the Web at www.lhs.com.
NOTE: The names, logos and taglines identifying PulsePoint
Communications' products and services are proprietary marks of
PulsePoint Communications. Other products and company names mentioned
herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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CONTACT: PulsePoint Communications, Carpenteria
Pam Thompson, 805/566-2091
pam.thompson@plpt.com
or
MorseMcFadden Communications Inc.
Michele Davis, 425/889-0528
micheled@morsepr.com
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INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED
INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET
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