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To: DebtBomb who wrote (2973)	12/18/2001 12:06:27 PM
From: wgh613	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13660

SPWX news, Korean National Tourism Organization Selects SpeechWorks and Partner Metel To Deliver Natural Language Speech SolutionCallers will be able to use their voice to access information on sight seeing tours, popular destinations and geographic regions anytime, anywhere BOSTON and KOREA, Dec 18, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SpeechWorks International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPWX chart, msgs), a global leader in speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies and solutions, and partner Metel today announced that they will deliver a voice-enabled tour information solution for the Korean National Tourism Organization. After a rigorous evaluation process by the organization, SpeechWorks and Metel were selected to deliver the Korean language speech application using advanced speech recognition software from SpeechWorks. The system is scheduled for deployment in January 2002. Using natural language voice commands, callers will be able to obtain tourist information on Korean cities, regions and individual tourism attraction information by simply saying the name of the desired city or city code, 24 hours a day from any phone, including wireless. To receive tour information using the existing touch-tone system, callers must enter the specific code for each city name from among 600 numbers and wait on hold, for several minutes in some cases, for an available operator. Individual city codes are listed in a Code Book, which is available through the Internet and at Information Centers throughout the country. The caller can also access the city code information through a touch-tone menu. "The previous touch-tone system made it difficult to access information because the caller had to know the code for specific cities or listen through a long menu of city names for the respective code," said Lee Kee Young, president of Metel. "The voice-enabled system will allow callers to simply state what city or area they are interested in exploring and receive that information immediately without waiting in queue to speak with an operator. This works quite well for wireless callers who may be in their car or callers dialing in from outside of Korea who don't have access to a directory of city codes." Callers can access information on three types of services, including sight service which allows callers to access tour information for desired cities; total services whereby a caller can say "mountains," and learn about the popular mountain areas in Korea; and area service which provides callers with area information such as "downtown" or "market district." "The tourism industry is a key source of foreign exchange earnings in Korea, and the National Tourism Organization has proven its outward-looking and innovative approach to attracting tourists by providing information through a state-of-the-art speech application," said Howard Gross, vice president and general manager of International at SpeechWorks. "With the World Cup to be played this coming summer in venues across the country, tourists will appreciate the ability to use natural speech to obtain instant information via any telephony device." SpeechWorks recently received the prestigious Australian Information Industry Association's (AIIA) iMPLEMENTATION iAward for Western Australia Tourism Commission's (WATC) `Virtual Call Centre' application. The award recognizes the best development and deployment of information and communications technology in Australia. SpeechWorks also has extensive experience working for government agencies in the U.S., including Amtrak, the Internal Revenue Service and the State of California Superior Court. Metel has provided a speech-enabled stock trading system for Hyundai Securities, pager systems for hospitals, an announcement system for universities and a voice recognition automated exchange system for broadcasting and other companies. In addition to these services, Metel is providing a tour information system with voice recognition and synthesis solutions to governmental organizations. Today, Metel is developing and providing a variety of voice recognition solutions to many industry segment

To: DebtBomb who wrote (2973)	12/18/2001 12:14:07 PM
From: Mark Konrad	Respond to of 13660

Both were struggling in overbought territory by the middle of last week, imo. FWIW, NTAP is back up to where I sold it but looks very overbought and would need to hold above 24 to convince me another leg up is warranted...and you already know what I thought of BRCD when it was 36+ the other day. All imo--MK--