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L&H ANNOUNCES NEW SPEECH SOLUTIONS FOR PROFESSIONALSL&H Solution Series offers award-winning speech recognition software with powerful macros and data-handling capabilities.BURLINGTON, Mass. - October 17, 2000- Lernout & Hauspie (NASDAQ: LHSP, EASDAQ: LHSP), a worldwide leader in speech and language technologies and products, today announced the L&H™ Solution Series, a family of corporate speech recognition and productivity products designed to automate daily business tasks. The L&H™ Solution Series offers organizations the tools to quickly create, format, and assemble documents with the use of macros, dictation, and form filling software. Featuring Dragon NaturallySpeaking® version 5 software, the series allows users to dictate into a PC or certified recorder for document or email creation. In addition, users can create speech-based solutions with the Microsoft® Office suite of software; create and fill out forms; retrieve, share, and manage information; and browse the Web. The L&H™ Solution Series also includes editions specifically designed to maximize the productivity of general business, legal, medical, and public safety professionals. "The L&H Solution Series offers corporate and professional users a solution to speech enable their daily work," said Kevin O'Donnell, director of product management, L&H. "These products also represent one of the first combinations of L&H and Dragon Systems technology, which was acquired by L&H earlier this year." The L&H™ Solution Series comprises four separate products:
Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Professional Solutions can expedite repetitive tasks performed on personal computers, such as data entry, form completion, order intake, customer service, technical support, and claims reports. The Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Professional Solutions family of products combines L&H state-of-the-art continuous speech technology with an extensive, easily customized vocabulary of approximately 250,000 terms. Each of the editions also includes two powerful development tools:
SpeechLinks and SpeechDocs are Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA)-compatible tools that allow professionals to produce custom business solutions across applications, including Microsoft® Word, Excel, Visio®, Visual Basic®, and AutoCAD®. Users can employ these tools to easily navigate multiple Desktop applications; create potent, easy-to-use voice macros; perform speech-based text and database searches in a variety of file formats; create and fill in speech-aware spreadsheets and other documents; fill in forms and templates; and perform other complex tasks -- all by using voice commands. Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Legal SolutionsBuilt on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Professional product, Legal Solutions is a productivity tool designed for legal professionals. It combines L&H continuous speech recognition technology with an extensive and customizable vocabulary of legal terms that includes court names, case histories, litigation abbreviations, subdivisions of legal documents, Latin and French legal phrases, hyphenates, state names, abbreviations, and postal codes. Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Medical SolutionsBuilt on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Professional product, Medical Solutions is a powerful dictation and productivity tool for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, physical therapists, medical specialists, academics and researchers, psychiatrists, psychologists, chiropractors, health insurance companies, malpractice lawyers, medical transcriptionists and medical students. It comes equipped with an extensive medical vocabulary, including medication names, medical procedures, diagnoses, symptoms and conditions, and common medical acronyms. Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Public Safety SolutionsBuilt on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Professional product, Public Safety Solutions is a powerful dictation and report generation tool for transcribing dictated investigation reports, interview summaries, and other paperwork. Designed for investigators, forensic specialists, detectives, commanders, officers, and other personnel in public and private law enforcement, Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Public Safety Solutions, with a speech vocabulary of law enforcement and public safety terms and contexts, is easy to learn and integrate into established routines. Pricing and AvailabilityDragon Naturally Speaking® Professional Solutions is available in World English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch. The World English products include L&H™ SpeechLinks and L&H™ Speech Docs Filler. The French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch editions include L&H™ SpeechLinks; L&H™ SpeechDocs Filler is available separately. The non-English products offer bilingual dictation capability, with English as the second language. Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Legal, Medical and Public Safety Solutions are available in US English only. L&H™ Solution Series products are scheduled for availability November 2000, and are primarily sold through volume licensing agreements through L&H-certified Value Added Resellers (VARs). Individual products and information are also available through L&H Telesales, reachable at 1-800-443-7077. The suggested retail price for Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Professional Solutions is $695, $795 for Public Safety Solutions, and $995 for Medical and Legal Solutions products. About Lernout & HauspieLernout & Hauspie (L&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: customised 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. For more information, please visit Lernout & Hauspie on the World Wide Web at www.lhs.com or www.lhsl.com. This News Release contains forward-looking information that involves risks and uncertainties, including statements about the company's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. Such statements include, without limitation, discussions concerning the company's strategic direction, new product introductions and developments, and the expected developments of targeted markets. Readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward looking statements. The risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the successful introduction of new products into the market, such as the L&H™ Solutions Series, the early stage of the speech and language technology market, the correct functioning of the new products, and rapid technological change and competition. The forward-looking statements contained herein speak only as of the date of this News Release. The company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in the company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstance on which any such statement is based. L&H and Dragon NaturallySpeaking are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or in other countries. All other names may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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