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Technology Stocks : USAT Long Distance Telecommunications -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dentique who wrote (15)	1/16/1999 1:50:00 AM
From: PAUL MARTIN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 397

Does anybody know what network USAT is putting it's traffic over, or what hardware system they are using?????

To: dentique who wrote (15)	1/17/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: dentique	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 397

USAT Growth Opportunities: USA Talks.com's proprietary technology presents the company with revenue opportunities beyond its Internet Telephone Network. To date, the firm has had preliminary discussions with companies within the telecommunications industry regarding the licensing of its proprietary technologies. The Phonetic Speech Recognizer™ and Phone Dialer™ have potential in five principal markets:telecommunications, personal computing, multimedia, automotive electronics and consumer electronics appliances. I found above released from USAT's web site. Below are informations released by Trendmark, the subsidiary company of USAT. USA Talks.com other great products: USA Talks.com Phonetic Speech RecognizerTM will make it possible for computers to recognize human speech. The proprietary algorithms in this software are based on phonetics - a departure from the signal-processing approach utilized by other speech recognition technologies. One key advantage of software developed by USA Talks.com is that the phonetic-based algorithms of the Phonetic Speech Recognizer do NOT require the massive computing power, speed and memory needed for signal-processing speech recognizers. Plus the user does not have to be trained. Speech recognition programs typically requires training the equipment to recognize a significant number of discrete words spoken by the user - referred to as "speaker enrollment". Other speaker-dependent systems tend to be sensitive to background noise (office noise, line noise, etc.) and also to speech patterns that have been altered due to the user being tired, excited, etc. In order to address these problems, many speech recognition programs require the user to use a specific head-set or speak closely to a microphone - becoming unnatural. Speech recognition services thus far have the disadvantage of using "word-based" recognition and therefore require the user to speak unnaturally once again - rather than using "natural continuous speech" - using phonetics. USA Talks.com Phone DialerTM is a "phone-me recognizer" - fifteen word - for wireless and standard telephones. USA Talks.com has completed the software and plans to proceed to incorporate this software into a microchip. The Company plans to license the Phone Dialer for use in it's Internet Phone business. Speech is the most natural, efficient and easiest means of human communication. With the increase in the power and low-cost of controllers, manufacturers of business and consumer products have begun to use human speech as an interface in their products. Recent applications of speech in electronic devices include command and control of personal computers, hands-free dialing of car phones, pocket translators, digital answering machines and interactive voice response systems. USA Talks.com believes that speech control of the operation of electronic devices will be incorporated in an increasing number and variety of applications, provided that it is easy to use, accurate and affordable. Speech-enabled products are growing but the accuracy rate and overall performance of these products have been inadequate, preventing widespread acceptance, until now. I thought these informations might help investors understand the future of USAT growth. Good luck. Dentique