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To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (1771)	10/30/1998 6:26:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3178

Stephen, When I was posting news items as aggressively as you are now, I'd always try to read them first then comment on them in a preface to the post... like you were doing. Then they got to be too much, and selecting only the relevant ones became a chore itself, eating into my travel time. Then I was saved by you. I think that you are now falling into the same syndrome. Editorializing is probably a good thing if it means that we're making some sense out of all of this ink black that gets splashed about everyday. A lot of it is only spin... The problem isn't in dealing with the spin as much as it is getting through the wash cycle. [g] >within the last two weeks to really digest any news posted here or the dozen mags or so I need to catch up on. < In about an hour I'm hopping onto a MetroLiner to DE, and guess what I have in my bag? GR 303 specifications. Sheesh, I know, I should get a life... Later, Frank C.

To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (1771)	11/5/1998 9:29:00 PM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Respond to of 3178

Enterprise Messaging Services, Inc. Signs Agreement With Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, to Add Speech Technology to Telephony Offerings Business Editors WEST CHESTER, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 1998-- Integration of L&H's Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Technology with EMS' TelAccess(R) and SpeechAccess(TM) extends the capabilities of Computer Telephony Applications. EMS, a leading provider of products and services for the call processing solutions used in Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) and Intelligent Network solutions, today announced an agreement with L&H, a worldwide market leader in speech and linguistics technologies, products and services. Through this agreement EMS will be able to provide advanced "speech-enabled" Interactive Voice Response (IVR) applications to its broad base of customers. The EMS generated IVR applications will employ a combination of speech recognition technology from L&H and grammar tools from Unisys Corporation. EMS will design, develop, integrate, implement and provide on-going support services for the advanced speech solution offerings in the Microsoft NT environment. EMS licensed the L&H ASR 1500 Speech Recognizer for integration into its SpeechAccess IVR product offerings. "Our customers will significantly benefit from the speech enabled IVR solutions as they will significantly reduce the time of the telephone call as well as reduce line expenses," said Anurag Singh, President of EMS. "Callers will engage in a more user friendly telephone dialog than current IVR touch-tone/ DTMF implementations are able to offer. Users will be able to quickly navigate through voice prompts using conversational English rather than using multiple 0 - 9 numeric menu options." EMS' new Speech Enabled Scheduling Application will enable the user to employ natural language and continuous speech to enter appointments in their schedule. Additionally, the caller will be able to use spoken English to communicate time available to work as well as check the times and dates they are currently scheduled to work. The application will also be able to remind the user of scheduled work commitments via the out-bound calling feature. EMS will also utilize L&H's Text to Speech (TTS) technology to assist in testing and simulating the IVR live applications. TTS will also make dynamic and frequently changing prompts, such as dates and names, easier and less costly to modify, change, and update. About Enterprise Messaging Services (EMS) EMS provides sophisticated Interactive Voice Response (IVR) software, consulting services, application development and project management. EMS is a Microsoft Certified Solution provider with Microsoft Certified Professionals on staff. EMS consultants are highly qualified with the technical expertise to design, build and manage telecommunication projects for Value Added Services. SpeechAccess(TM) (IVR Interactive Voice Response Solutions) EMS's flagship Interactive Voice Response (IVR) product SpeechAccess is a full-featured, scaleable interactive voice response system development tool and runtime environment. SpeechAccess is a software tool to design, prototype, simulate, document, generate and customize Interactive Voice Response (IVR) applications. It has evolved from extensive experience and study of both large and small-scale IVR solutions that exist in the marketplace. SpeechAccess was developed using object-oriented language (Visual C++). SpeechAccess provides Speech Recognition, Text to Speech (TTS) and Natural Language capability. SpeechAccess Application Designer brings the application designing and prototyping process to a portable platform (such as a desktop, laptop or notebook). Once the call flow chart design is completed and tested, you simply click the "Run Driver" option from SpeechAccess Application Designer's Utility menu, which executes the SpeechAccess Runtime directly from your Windows screen. SpeechAccess Runtime provides the interface between the call flows generated from SpeechAccess Application Designer and various voice/fax cards, databases and files for implementing multi-line audio text, interactive voice response (IVR), fax-back and fax-on-demand on a Microsoft NT platform. EMS' corporate headquarter is located at 905 Airport Road, Suite 300, West Chester, PA 19380; Phone: 610-701-7002; Fax: 610-701-7004; Email: sales@emessages.com; World Wide Web: emessages.com About L&H Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (Nasdaq: LHSPF, Easdaq: LHSP) (L&H), is a global leader in advanced speech and language solutions for 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 it is blending the best of human and machine translation technology, tools and services to instantly break down language barriers around the world. 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 lhs.com or contact sales@lhs.com; media contact: Audrey Pobre, Corporate Communications, USA, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products at 781/203-5341 or apobre@lhs.com.

To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (1771)	11/5/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Respond to of 3178

Covad Communications Applauds FCC Decision To Treat DSL Services as Private-Line Interstate Telecommunications Services Business Editors/Technology Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 1998--Covad Communications Company, the first Packet Competitive Local Exchange Carrier and a leading provider of digital communications services, praised the balance struck by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in its recent decision to treat Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services as private-line interstate telecommunication services. "With this decision, the FCC has established the foundation to assert its rightful role in ensuring that all Americans receive the benefit of the competitive provision of DSL services," said Dhruv Khanna, vice president and co-founder of Covad Communications Company. "At the same time, the FCC made it clear that incumbent LECs must continue to abide by their current interconnection agreements with CLECs." The FCC issued an Order on Friday, Oct. 30, which ruled that GTE's ADSL service offering is an interstate service while explicitly upholding existing reciprocal compensation arrangements between ILECs and CLECs with regard to analog dial-up calls to Internet Service Providers ("ISPs"). Because the company only provides all-digital, "always-on" dedicated private-line services, Covad does not receive any revenue from analog dial-up calls to ISPs. "The FCC has long treated ISPs as end-users, and the FCC should continue with that tried and tested regulatory principle," Khanna said. "In the long-term, data traffic properly belongs on packet-based networks such as Covad's. Full payment by all carriers of the true reciprocal compensation costs of exchanging data traffic on circuit-switched networks will only accelerate the migration of that data traffic to more efficient data networks." All ILECs and regulators alike now have a direct incentive to accelerate the deployment of DSL networks. Earlier this year, Covad filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, arguing that the interstate nature of the Internet and DSL services gives the FCC the legal right to determine how incumbent LECs must provide the facilities used to provide DSL services to companies like Covad. "Covad looks forward to working with the FCC and the states to fully implement this decision," Khanna said. About Covad Communications Company Covad Communications is a leading packet-based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier that provides dedicated high-speed digital communication services using Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology to enterprise and Internet Service Provider ("ISP") customers. The company has launched its services in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York and Boston metropolitan areas and has announced plans to deploy its service network in a total of 22 regions nationwide. Covad Communications' corporate headquarters are located at 2330 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050. For more information concerning Covad Communications Company and the TeleSpeed service visit: covad.com or e-mail sales@covad.com. Telephone: 408/844-7500 or 888/GO-COVAD; FAX: 408/844-7501.