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To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (2745)	10/27/1999 10:07:00 AM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 13582

Microsoft/BT and MS/NTT new mobile-internet agreements. Both announced this month. BT system link is intended to be "shared with ATT". NTT looks to evolve the developing system with the "new generation technology" to be introduced in 2001, which I believe to be GSM based. totaltele.com totaltele.com Comments?

To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (2745)	10/27/1999 10:32:00 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 13582

On LU......Wednesday October 27, 10:07 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Lucent Technologies Lucent Brings Natural-Sounding, Voice-Activated Services To Market Unisys, Premiere and Cognitronics Launch New Services with Software from Lucent NEW YORK, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU - news) today announced Unisys Corporation, Premiere Technologies and Cognitronics Corporation each will use software from Lucent Speech Solutions to launch new voice-activated services. Lucent also announced it has added languages to its speech portfolio, which will be demonstrated here today at the SpeechTek show, booth #114. ``Today's announcements underscore that Lucent's speech products -- the most advanced and natural-sounding in the industry -- are quickly being brought to market in new and exciting applications,' said Dan Furman, president of Lucent Speech Solutions. ``Combined with the latest additions to our portfolio, we are helping our customers make life easier for their customers with speech solutions.' Unisys will license Lucent's Text-to-Speech (TTS) software engine for use in its new Universal Messaging product, also announced today. A key component of the new product is its e-mail reader service, which will give users over- the-phone access to e-mail messages via Lucent's TTS software that converts text messages into natural sounding voices, capable of speaking in several different languages. Unisys also will offer Lucent speech software to application developers over the new Unisys SpeechDepot.com web site to make the deployment of speech services and applications easier than ever. Premiere Technologies is using Lucent's TTS software to allow users to hear their e-mail over the phone and respond to it with their own voice, from any touch-tone phone, from anywhere. Its new e-mail reader service, called Orchestrate* E-Mail by Phone, gives users access to their e-mail, whether calling from the car, home or from out-of-town. The service is ideal for business travelers, saving them from having to lug their laptops to get e- mail. Using Lucent's software, the messages are converted to natural- sounding, male or female voices, delivering superior pronunciation. The Orchestrate service gives users a local number to access their messages without incurring additional per-minute charges for usage. In addition, Cognitronics (Amex: CGN - news) will use Lucent's TTS software to provide voice announcement applications over its next-generation, packet-based server for carrier-class intelligent networks. Cognitronics develops and integrates high-quality applications and services for circuit and packet-based networks including automated 411 and talking call-waiting for large-scale deployment with major service providers. New languages and tools Lucent Speech Solutions today also announced it has expanded its portfolio of speech products developed by its research arm, Bell Laboratories. Its TTS software line-up now supports three new languages: Italian, Castilian Spanish and French-Canadian, in addition to American English, German, French and Latin Spanish, bringing the total to seven languages. Lucent's TTS software is highly reliable and scaleable for small, medium, or large applications. Additionally, Lucent Speech Solutions has recently released a new tool, called the Custom Dictionary Editor, which allows users to quickly and effectively modify the way a word or phrase is pronounced. With Lucent's Custom Dictionary Editor, TTS or speech recognition applications can accommodate specific words that are unique to a certain industry or country. For example, the system could be customized to include acronyms or jargon from the financial or medical industries that aren't found in the dictionary. The new tool also is ideal for companies deploying services globally or to specific regions of the country or world, since it accounts for accents or language nuances.

To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (2745)	10/27/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: jackmore	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

Thread, A possible fly in the Cisco ointment? ?October 26, 1999 ? TI, Broadcom Back Cisco VOFDM Coalition By Loring Wirbel, EE Times CISCO SYSTEMS on Tuesday announced an industry coalition to support the use of vector-based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (VOFDM) for broadband wireless access. The effort includes Bechtel Telecommunications, Electronic Data Systems, KPMG, LCC International, Motorola, Pace Micro Technology, Samsung Electronics, and Toshiba, as well as commitments from Broadcom and Texas Instruments to provide mixed-signal Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) for the advanced modulation scheme. OFDM technologies have found increasing favor in realms as diverse as wireless LANs and third-generation (3G) cellular phones. Cisco's vector version of the modulation scheme will allow multiplexing of time-division and packet traffic in wireless broadband networks using such frequencies as the U-NII 5-GHz band defined by the Federal Communications Commission and the 28-GHz bands used for LMDS. The VOFDM proposal being promoted by the companies specifies that customer premises equipment will utilize a Layer 2 MAC (Media Access Control) technology similar to that employed for Ethernet packet standards. Gregg Lowe, vice president of worldwide ASICs at Texas Instruments, said his company had been working with Cisco for two years on ASIC implementations of a MAC and physical-layer interface for VOFDM. The use of OFDM could prove problematic, however. Wi-LAN, a small Canadian company that pioneered OFDM's use in wireless local loops and licensed OFDM algorithms for the IEEE's 802.11b wireless LAN working group, has indicated it will take an aggressive approach to intellectual property protection. Wi-LAN recently approached the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) with a proposal for licensing the Wi-LAN patent 5,555,268, saying that several 3G concepts being considered by ITU could infringe on the company's patent for multicode direct sequence spread spectrum. teledotcom.com