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LERNOUT & HAUSPIE SPEECH PRODUCTS SHOWS SOLUTIONS FOR WIRELESS AND TELECOMMUNICATION MARKETS AT NETWORKS TELECOM 2001L&H™ Realspeak™ Compact showcased for the first time in EuropeIEPER, BELGIUM and STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - September 24, 2001 - Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV (OTC: LHSPQ) ('L&H' or 'the Company'), a world leader in speech and language technology, products and services, today announced that its Speech and Language Technology (SLT) division will showcase its leading-edge speech and language solutions at Networks Telecom 2001, one of the biggest trade shows dedicated to the Internet, network and computer telephony markets. The show will take place between September 24th and 26th in Stockholm, Sweden. L&H and some of its local customers will demonstrate technologies and solutions focused on several markets, including telecommunications, mobile applications and the automotive industry. Peter Hauser, vice president and general manager for L&H international and automotive, commented: "Scandinavia is an essential region to us, being the home of major mobile phone and telecom hardware manufacturers as well as innovators in mobile technologies. L&H is delighted to now offer this fast-moving market some of its leading-edge technologies, including L&H™ Realspeak™. L&H™ Realspeak™ is already available in three Scandinavian languages, and the market for these is continually growing. A local Nordic sales team covering this market from Göteborg, Sweden, underlines L&H's commitment to ensure professional support and services to the region." Demonstrations at the L&H booth include technologies such as: L&H's ASR 1600 speech recognition engine; L&H's recently launched Distributed Speech Recognition for the mobile and automotive markets; L&H's TTS 3000 and L&H™ RealSpeak™ text-to-speech engines; and the new L&H™ RealSpeak™ Compact for mobile and automotive use. L&H™ RealSpeak™ text-to-speech family is currently available in 19 languages, including Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. L&H also offers its ASR 1600, in 14 languages, including Swedish and Norwegian. L&H has gained strong customer confidence across several markets in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. PipeBeach, and L&H Solutions Partner EDB Dolphin, will join L&H on the booth demonstrating their VoiceXML, IVR and voice portal solutions:
Other leading companies licensing L&H technologies, such as L&H™ Realspeak™, Intelligent Content Management Tools and Automated Speech Recognition engines, in Scandinavia are: Datatal, Voxit, Wordfinder Software, Telenor Mobile and Tecnomen. People wishing to observe product demonstrations and view the latest technologies and solutions are invited to visit L&H at Networks Telecom 2001 booth A 11:30. For further information on L&H, please visit our website at www.lhsl.com. About PipeBeachPipeBeach is a leading provider of voice platforms, applications and services that enable mobile users easy access to messaging, information and entertainment. PipeBeach has pioneered the integration of mobile communications, speech and Internet technologies using open standards. With the carrier-class speechWeb™ platform PipeBeach gives mobile network operators, service providers and enterprises a robust foundation to fully benefit from the VoiceXML standard for web based voice applications. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, PipeBeach is a privately held company funded by some of Sweden's most renowned investors. PipeBeach was founded in 1998 and has reached a leading position through milestones such as the deployment of the world's first VoiceXML voice portal at a mobile network operator. http://www.pipebeach.com About EDB DolphinEDB Dolphin is a subsidiary of EDB Business Partner, one of Norway's largest IT companies. EDB Business Partner has 3500 employees and is noted on the Oslo Stock Exchange. EDB Dolphin is one of the leading companies in Scandinavia on IVR, speech recognition, text-to-speech and Contact Centers. We provide turnkey solutions, professional services and a platform for making multi media applications. HotVoice® is a modular, scalable and robust platform that works in an open standards based environment. HotVoice® handles IVR, FAX, TTS, ASR, SMS, ODBC, E-Mail, TCP/IP and many other technologies used in an open computer telephony development platform. HotVoice® runs on Windows NT/2000 and uses telephony cards from Dialogic and Aculab. http://www.dolphin.no About Lernout & HauspieL&H is a global leader in advanced speech and language solutions for vertical markets, 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 is using advanced translation technology to break down language barriers. The company provides a wide range of offerings, including: customized solutions for corporations; core speech technologies marketed to OEMs; end user and retail applications for continuous speech products in horizontal and vertical markets; and document creation, human and machine translation services, Internet translation offerings, and linguistic tools. L&H's products and services originate in four basic areas: automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), search and retrieval and audio mining and text-to-text (translation). For more information, please visit L&H on the World Wide Web at http://www.lhsl.com |
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