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Technology Stocks : LHSP: Lernout En Hauspie -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jhg_in_kc who wrote (2156)	5/9/2000 8:25:00 PM
From: A.L. Reagan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2467

How long will it be before the auto revenues from voice recognition come in, how long before the medical recording revenues reach the bottom line? How long before this technology which LHSP has about 80 per cent of the market in, begins to take off? Corrections welcome from the more knowledgeable, my take is: 1. Visteon stuff should be mid next model year. On-Star which uses GMGC has a head-start. 2. Medical revenues started yesterday (hope that's soon enough!) when Dictaphone acquisition closed. Dictaphone dominates that vertical. 3. Text-to-speech really depends on applications developers time to market. As far as I know, there isn't yet a "killer app" that we can buy today - dates with Cyberananova notwithstanding. Trying to watch wireless web developments carefully, as both voice recog and text-to-speech are necessary for these devices to have a useable interface IMO, given the numeric keypad and teeny display. Wireless is the fundamental reason I bot LHSP. Personally, always thought talking to a PC in my office was pretty dumb (or at least it made me feel pretty dumb), and most of the earlier deals in this area (this stuff's been around since Kurzweil got his first lab) were real flops. The language translators are better than many, and I'm sure useful, but not the proprietary killer app. Maybe there's a tornado market beyond wireless devices I've missed. Again, more knowledgeable please comment. My ultimate fantasy is that everybody will want Sprint PCS with Qualcomm HDR and Snap-Track inside, handset designed and made by Nokia, apps from Wireless Knowledge and Oraclemobile using LHSP speech technology embedded in CDMA base stations built by Ericsson, tied to the net with Nortel optic systems (components mainly sourced from JDSU), with all m-commerce running off Sun Solaris servers and stored on NAS from Network Appliance. Yeah, lots o' luck, Reagan!