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Technology Stocks : Accent Softwr (acntf): Addressing Huge Multilingual Mkt? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rrufff who wrote (276)	8/17/1998 5:17:00 PM
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Good news for ACNTF and MSFT. briefing.com Aug. 17/98 10:51 ET Lernout & Hauspie N.V. (LHSPF) 42 5/16 -7/16 (-1%): Lehman Brothers says believes rumors that Microsoft is selling its stake in speech technologies company are unfounded. In fact, if anything, expects MSFT to exercise warrants on 858,000 shares to increase stake. MSFT has right, if it chooses, to sell 1/3 of LHSPF stake over 3-yr period beginning in Sept. Firm continues to rate LHSPF a "buy" and maintains its price target of $75. (Chart) ---------- Accent Announces First Localization Tool for Localizing MultiMedia Content With Macromedia Director(TM) PR Newswire - August 17, 1998 08:16 L@Port(TM) for Director Simplifies Multimedia Content Translation Into Other Languages COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Accent Software International, Ltd., (Nasdaq: ACNTF; ACNUF) announced today the availability of L@Port for Director, an add-on to Macromedia's Director program that allows for all of the multimedia content to be bundled and translated into other languages and then reintegrated to create a localized version of the Director Movie. This new Director Xtra allows developers easier access to the international marketplace. The Xtra is available from Accent's web site at www.accentsoft.com and from Macromedia's web site at www.macromedia.com. "Multimedia content is some of the most difficult content to localize into other languages," stated Bob Antoniazzi, Accent's Vice President of Marketing. "L@Port for Director extracts audio, video, graphics and text multimedia content and sends it to Accent's translation server where it is converted into a different language and then is sent back and automatically reintegrated to create a new localized version." "By using L@Port for Director, our customers can easily make international applications in Director," stated William Schulze, product manager Director team. "The L@Port approach allows our creative customers to focus on their local language for content and still address the global marketplace." L@Port for Director is an Xtra that is integrated with the Director program. Mulitmedia content is extracted, translated and reintegrated. A projected translation cost is developed and then submitted to the customer for approval. Upon approval the content is translated. The Xtra is available from both companies web sites and will be distributed with future releases of Director. This press release contains historical information and forward looking statements. Statements looking forward in time are included pursuant to the "safe harbor" provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve known and unknown risks and the Company's actual results in the future periods may be materially different from any future performance suggested herein.