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To: Gary Strong who wrote (1733)	3/8/1998 8:47:00 AM
From: Arthur Radley	Respond to of 3347

Thanks for your response. We all need our rest(:>).

To: Gary Strong who wrote (1733)	3/8/1998 9:33:00 AM
From: Jerry String	Respond to of 3347

<<Fonix has a collaboration with OGI and that Ron is very "excited" about.>> After all your buildup of OGI and Ron Cole, I thought you were going to say something important. The FONX collaboration of which you speak and of which FONX management hypes is a paid arrangement. Ron Cole is essentially being paid for putting quotes out about FONX. This BW article was written prior to the paid arrangement between FONX and Cole. Please cite in the BW article or in any other publication where Cole said ANYTHING about FONX prior to his being paid by FONX. <<If you go into the OGI website,and go into Center for spoken Language,then press research projects,then press Large Vocab. you will see ongoing research with the sponcers(sic) at the bottom of the page: INTEL,FONIX,ONR .>> What does this little bit of hype mean?? Other than to verify that FONX paid Cole to have their name put up on his website? PS: Welcome to SI! Did you pay your $125 yet? Please hurry, I get a cut from those I bring over from the AOL Motley Fool thread. There is a spell check feature that would be extremely helpful to someone like you. If you are not aware of how to use it, please let me know. I will help you.

To: Gary Strong who wrote (1733)	3/8/1998 9:38:00 AM
From: Jerry String	Respond to of 3347

<<<Also you can see BW quoted John Oberteuffer one of the countrys(sic) formost(sic) authoritys(sic) on VR and former consultant for LHSPF for developing their SOFTWARE.Now John is Vice President of Technology for Fonix.>> BW quoted him. But in the quote he did not mention FONX. Now, Obertueffer has been sitting on the FONX Board of Directors for a year. They gave him 200,000 stock options. In January, Studdert put him directly on the payroll. Can you cite anywhere in any publication where Obertueffer has spoken highly of FONX technology (or of FONX technology at all)? And this guy publishes a monthly newsletter on the industry!?!?! Maybe he wants to keep it a secret while he accumulates as much of this stock with his personal funds. Now let's see......checking the filings.......nope........Obertueffer ain't buying nothing! <<customers of AcuVoice are very pleased with the Acuvoice/fonix text to speech applications according to AT&T who has a contract with them>> AcuVoice did less than $2M in revenues last year. Most of that came from a desperate company, bleeding cash, in financial hell......GMGC. GMGC needed the cheapest solution they could find and they went to AcuVoice. Since, GMGC took up most of AcuVoice revenues last year that leaves a couple of hundred thousand for AT&T's contract. Would you call that a significant commitment from a company that has expenses of in excess of $40 Billion per year? Next time you start daydreaming about MSFT, don't let your head slip off your hand and your elbow slip off the table, you might bonk your head again. PS: Gotta love that organizational chart at AcuVoice......11 total company employees.....5 corporate divisions. LOL.

To: Gary Strong who wrote (1733)	3/8/1998 9:58:00 AM
From: Fairways9	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3347

To all, I've wondered what could be some of the reasons why AcuVoice agreed to be acquired by Fonix. There are really only two that make any sense. 1) Acuvoice was infringing on Fonix's patent and didn't have a strong defense. Rather than be held hostage to the patent, Acuvoice decided to join the Fonix team. The following was included in the AcuVoice/General Magic press release: "AcuVoice, Inc. specializes in natural sounding text-to-speech software, achieved by an entirely new approach. AcuVoice speech synthesis is an intelligent system which emulates the mechanics of the human mind in the complex process of reading and voicing text. A robust, rule-based expert system analyzes the syntax created by a series of words, and determines how each word must be pronounced to bring out the intended meaning of the text being processed. The system then replicates how humans convert a line of text into a stream of text-sensitive sound pulsations" Doesn't that sound like Fonix's claims? 2. I doubt that AcuVoice received much cash in the deal so AcuVoice must have thought Fonix's stock would be worth something. AcuVoice was likely dazzled by Fonix's tech/patents and sold out just to be part of it. Any other plausible explanations out there? Marc