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To: Mark Oliver who wrote (5478)	3/9/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: Kurthend	Respond to of 10081

Mark, Thanks for the info. Especialy on the NT vs Unix platform. In reference to the Myosphere development. MOT first announced Myosphere back in August or September and they won't start trialing for another 4 months. I guess that shows you the lead that GMGC has in the VUI market. Basically, it will take MOT a year from the announcement just to ramp up to the trial stage. Did you get any indication from you source of information on who would trial Myosphere? Take care, Kurt

To: Mark Oliver who wrote (5478)	3/9/1999 11:26:00 PM
From: stephen wall	Respond to of 10081

Mark, re:existing language data I assume you mean here things like Nuance's SpeechObjects which is a set of reusable components for rapid development. But then again, the devil is always in the details. Nuance 6.2 is also claiming that their core recognition algorithms provide up to a 40% improvement in processing speed. Also, more channels can be deployed on one server. My personal take on what is occurring is that GMGC's business model all along has been to build an OO architectured, fully integrated, multi-tiered communications service bureau underneath MagicTalk. While subscriber numbers and revenues may turn out disappointing tomorrow that is not the point. It would be the point if GMGC had had a 100M advertising budget allowing them to target market corporate markets relentlessly. That not being the case, they targeted aggregation fast track web presences that have already established unified partnerships. Intuit to be specific. The reseller channel in my mind was launched to establish proof of concept. Then in November Intuit came along. One month later Qwest, eyeing the CONTENT that Intuit could provide, established market trials with GMGC. It is without question that Qwest is now on a fast track to establish content partners knowing full well ATT, Level 3, Williams, and others are right on their heels. It is also no accident that Qwest's fiber rings are present in San Jose and Seattle. It would be nice to know if there are fiber lines running directly into the GMGC and Intuit buildings in Silicon Valley. It is pretty well known Qwest is developing a PDA and it makes perfect sense to me that they would want a piece of the Intuit customer base. GMGC would gain mightily from a Qwest partnership. I dont think it can be stressed enough that the dog-eat-dog buildout in the telecom world is being pursued to establish a unified end-to-end national network, thereby eliminating wireless roaming costs among the big competitiors. That brings in the one rate plan which ATT has already established but which is also a gamble because their margins are going to be squeezed to offer this. To me, it is very important for GMGC to partner with one of the national carriers which would give them the advantage of flexibility in their Minute Usage charges. The RBOC's can not provide this. It is interesting. In the latest edition of Speech Recognition Update William Meisel makes an interesting point: The largest single cost of most phone calls is the billing of the call. The traditional carriers are quagmired in multiple billing formats from various third party providers, feature offerings, and when any new service comes along, generally programmer resources have to be diverted to write interfaces to existing billing formats. Additionally, each RBOC, wireless carrier, etc have their own billing formats. (It will probably not be an accident if GMGC offers their services in the 3-tier Intuit format for simplicity of billing reasons, at least initially.) There are no STANDARDS here. Telecommunication Online has some interesting articles on this if you want to check. Qwest is starting from scratch, no existing customer base. In my opinion, this gives them a nice advantage over incumbent carriers. regards, stephen