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Technology Stocks : Fonix:Voice Recognition Product (FONX) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Randall E Westberg who wrote (2620)	1/25/2000 3:27:00 AM
From: Toni Wheeler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3347

Any chance Microsoft is working with Fonix here? yahoo.cnet.com <<<Until recently, Microsoft planned to introduce in 2001 a consumer version of Windows code-named "Neptune." That initiative has been combined with another, vaguer, project known as "Odyssey," and the combined development effort will be known by the code-name "Whistler," Microsoft said today. The move is the latest revision of Microsoft's long-term strategy for its consumer operating system business. Whistler had been the code-name of a speech to text translator project, according to Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows, a Microsoft user Web site. Those capabilities may be integrated into the operating system, according to the site...>>> Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: wugnet.com

To: Randall E Westberg who wrote (2620)	2/2/2000 11:43:00 AM
From: Toni Wheeler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3347

May be some "results" from this conference...?? tmaa.com February 2-4, 2000 Thursday sessions schedule tmaa.com B. Text-to-Speech and Speaker Verification Technology The quality of text-to-speech synthesis is increasingly important. The success of some systems depends not only on understanding what the caller wants, but also on delivering the information by voice in an acceptable manner. Other systems require authentication of the user before providing information. This session addresses the products and markets for these technologies. oÿÿÿÿÿÿ John Oberteuffer, Vice President of Technology, Fonix "Accessing the Internet by Telephone - The Text-to-Speech Component" Friday sessions schedule tmaa.com Text-to-Speech and Speaker Verification This session will allow attendees to hear variations in speech intelligibility, naturalness, and voice quality across different text-to-speech synthesis products. Differences in approaches to speaker verification?validating who is talking?will also be illustrated. oÿÿÿÿÿÿ Tom Morse, Senior Director of Engineering, Telephony, Lernout & Hauspie oÿÿÿÿÿÿ Rafid Sukkar, technical manager, Lucent Speech Solutions "The Lucent Speech Server: Integrating ASR, TTS, and SV" oÿÿÿÿÿÿ Paul Clayson, Vice President, Business Development, Fonix acuvoice.com John A. Oberteuffer, Ph.D. Vice President-Technology Dr. Oberteuffer received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Williams College, his Ph.D. in physics from Northwestern University, and was a member of the research staff at MIT for five years.ÿ Since then he has been founder and CEO of IrisGraphics, which was acquired by Scitex Corp, as well as vice president of personal computer systems at Voice Processing Corp., which has since merged with Voice Control Systems, Inc. Presently, Dr. Oberteuffer is founder and president of Voice Information Associates, Inc. (VIA). VIA is a consulting group providing strategic technical, market evaluation, product development, and corporate information to the automated speech recognition industry. ÿ In addition,VIA publishes the monthly newsletter, ASRNews.