FONX/LU news released last night
Fonix and Lucent Technologies Inferno Venture to Offer Fonix Handwriting Recognition Software to Information Appliance Market
PR Newswire - February 02, 1999 21:23
WOBURN, Mass., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Fonix Corporation, the innovation leader in human-computer interaction technology, today announced that the Inferno venture of Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) will offer Fonix's Allegro handwriting recognition capabilities as part of its Inferno(TM) operating system.
Through this agreement, Inferno customers can create Inferno-enabled appliances, such as Internet screen phones, with accurate handwriting input capabilities. According to Fonix President CEO Thomas A. Murdock, Allegro's software writing style provider nearly 100 percent input accuracy and, unlike voice recognition, it is also private, allowing the user to listen or converse while taking notes.
Inferno Software Solutions vice president of marketing, Vince Lesch, noted that, "Offering Allegro handwriting recognition software provides another value-added service to our customers, who are competing in the very robust information appliance market."
About Fonix Allegro Writing
Accurate handwriting input is becoming the preferred method of entering data in handheld and mobile devices.
Allegro essentially provides 99% accuracy, is easy to learn, and fast to use. Unlike other recognizers, Allegro does not require users to memorize a new way of writing the letters of the alphabet. Users will find Allegro natural in appearance and easy to remember. Allegro also enables input of upper case characters, digits, punctuation and symbols, as well as accented characters.
"Combining Inferno's flexible operating system with Allegro handwriting recognition is a key step in Fonix's efforts to lead the convergence of human computer interaction tools," said Murdock. "Together, Lucent Technologies and Fonix Corporation will make human computer interaction more simple and reliable."
About Inferno
Inferno is the first business venture created by Lucent Technologies, Inc., and the name of the venture's real-time operating system. In addition to servicing the needs of the telecommunications market, Inferno's mission is to provide simple access to information services through non-PC Internet appliances. Inferno envisions that Internet appliances will be used for retrieving information quickly -- such as phone numbers, stock quotes, and news -- as opposed to leisurely PC browsing. For more information on Inferno and its product line, visit lucent.com.
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit the company's web site at www.lucent.com.
About Fonix Corporation
Fonix Corporation, based in Salt Lake City, Utah with offices in Boston and Silicon Valley, provides solutions to make human interaction with computers and other intelligence appliances more simple and convenient. The Fonix suite of products and services, including speech recognition, handwriting recognition and text-to-speech, provides natural, intuitive solutions that allow people and their technological tools to speak to and interact with each other in human terms. Fonix technology produces and enhances products offered by Fonix and its OEM partners and is included in computer and Internet-based systems and devices for consumer, professional and industrial markets. Visit the web site at fonix.com to learn more about the full range of human-computer software technologies from Fonix Corporation.
(TM)Inferno is a trademark of Lucent Technologies
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SOURCE Fonix Corporation
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