SwiftTouch Corporation Licenses Lernout &Hauspie's Industry-Leading Speech Technology
February 24, 2000 10:27 AM
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2000--
-- Speech Technologies Enable Voice Access to Personal Information --
SwiftTouch Corporation today announced it has licensed industry-leading speech technologies from Lernout & Hauspie (L&H(TM)), a world wide leader in speech and language technologies products and services. SwiftTouch Corporation combines Lernout & Hauspie's speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies to enable voice access to secure, Web-based personal information. By integrating Lernout & Hauspie's multi-language technologies with the Web and advanced synchronization, SwiftTouch Corporation will be the first company to offer mobile professionals a solution to access their contacts, schedules and mission critical data whenever they need it.
"By selecting L&H, we are relying on the industry's leading experts to provide the innovative, multi-language voice component for our groundbreaking service," said Rob Miller, chief technical officer and co-founder of SwiftTouch Corporation. "L&H's ongoing commitment to provide the best speech technologies in the marketplace will contribute to our long-term success."
The power behind the SwiftTouch(TM) voice service lies in the four Lernout & Hauspie products that were licensed, which include:
-- L&H RealSpeak(TM), a text-to-speech engine that reads information with a high-quality, human-sounding voice;
-- Automatic Speech Recognition Tools, which enable users to voice dial and give voice commands to telecommunications applications;
-- IntelliScope(R) Document Summarizer, which provides an automatic summary of user-defined Web content such as news pages; and
-- E-mail Pre-processing, which provides automated read back of e-mail messages.
"SwiftTouch's contact management solution is an excellent example how L&H's intelligent content management tools and speech and language technologies can be deployed to harness the power of the Internet in accessing information," stated Patrick De Schrijver, president of L&H's Technologies and Solutions Division. "SwiftTouch, combined with L&H's cutting edge speech technology provides the growing mobile professional market an intuitive easy way to stay in touch with contacts and important appointments."
Currently in beta, the complete SwiftTouch service will combine L&H's speech technologies with the Internet and advanced synchronization to provide the premiere solution for accessing and managing personal contact networks. SwiftTouch Corporation's flagship service offering will provide mobile professionals with technology-independent access to and synchronization of contact and schedule information stored in various applications and devices including desktop organizers, hand-held or Palm organizers and cellular phones. By employing Web- and telephony-based technologies as information delivery engines, this revolutionary approach to contact management takes advantage of the latest advances in personal communications, without requiring users to change the way they work today. In addition, SwiftTouch will accurately maintain contact information through a permanent, self-updating link between users and their contacts.
About Lernout & Hauspie
Lernout & Hauspie LHSP (L&H(TM)) is a global leader in advanced speech and language solutions for vertical markets, 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 language barriers. The Company provides a wide range of offerings, including: customized solutions for corporations; core speech technologies marketed to OEMs; end user and retail applications for continuous speech products in horizontal and vertical markets; and document creation, human and machine translation services, Internet translation offerings, and linguistic tools. 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, please visit Lernout & Hauspie on the World Wide Web at www.lhsl.com.
About SwiftTouch Corporation
Founded in December 1998, SwiftTouch Corporation is committed to delivering next-generation contact management services that leverage the power of the Web, telephony-based technologies and advanced synchronization. With these combined technologies and the Company's flagship service offering, SwiftTouch Corporation enhances the connection between mobile professionals and their contact networks. Through its partner initiative, the Company provides potential partners with a service that is flexible and easily integrated into existing offerings. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., SwiftTouch Corporation is a fast-paced Internet start-up. For more information, visit the SwiftTouch Corporation Web site at www.SwiftTouch.com or call 781-280-5000.
SwiftTouch is a trademark of SwiftTouch Corporation.
Intelliscope is a registered trademark of Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V.; L&H and RealSpeak are trademarks of Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V.
CONTACT: SwiftTouch Corporation Sterling Hager, Inc. Christine Scaplen Shelly Lindgren-Outwater 781-280-5000, ext. 5024 617-926-6665 christine@swiftcorp.com shelly@sterlinghager.com
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