ScanSoft Offers Award-Winning RealSpeak Software for Mobile Devices in Brazilian Portuguese
New standard for synthesized speech brings ease of use, convenience and safety
to the world's mobile and automotive markets
SAO PAULO, Brazil and PEABODY, Mass., April 25, 2002 - ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), a leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions, today announced that it has made the ScanSoft® RealSpeak™ Compact SDK (Software Development Kit) available in Brazilian Portuguese. This new member of the award-winning RealSpeak family makes high-quality, natural-sounding text-to-speech (TTS) technology available for a broad spectrum of electronic devices and vertical markets.
Applications for this advanced software include mobile devices, such as PDA's (Personal Digital Assistants) and PDT's (Personal Digital Terminals), and handheld computers. The new SDK also empowers numerous vehicle-based information solutions, such as in-vehicle telematics and car navigation systems, offering drivers improved comprehensibility and the overall quality of these systems' synthetic voices.
"Ease of use and a natural operating experience for the end user are key performance features for successful mobile applications. For automotive information products and services in particular, a top-quality speech output is essential for safety and comfort," said Robert Weideman, vice president of worldwide marketing at ScanSoft. "Our new RealSpeak Compact SDK allows PDA manufacturers, mobile CRM systems integrators, car navigation and telematics service providers, and many others to incorporate the high-quality, natural-sounding TTS required for today's solutions."
A reduced footprint allows the RealSpeak Compact SDK to speech-enable virtually any application designed for a standard mobile device, such as a PDA running on the Microsoft® Windows® CE operating system or Linux® platform. The software converts several types of written text formats, ranging from e-mail to dates to Web pages, into high-quality, natural-sounding speech. Special text pre-processors generate accurate pronunciation of e-mail addresses, URL's, and date and time formats. In addition, the Application Programming Interface (API) enables application developers and system integrators to easily and rapidly build a user-friendly speech interface into their applications.
The RealSpeak Compact SDK is available in English, Japanese, German, Italian, French, Spanish and now Brazilian Portuguese.
Markets that benefit from using ScanSoft RealSpeak Compact SDK are:
- Automotive: provides hands-free and eyes-free access to information from within the vehicle
- Enterprise: voice-enables applications for the mobile workforce that wishes to access business-critical information from almost any location
- Mobile learning: enhances interactive learning, such as foreign language programs
- Mobile games: enhances a player's interactivity with the game
- Industrial: eases the direct delivery and retrieval of data from the factory floor to and from information management systems
About ScanSoft® RealSpeak™
ScanSoft's RealSpeak is the market-leading product for converting text into human-sounding synthesized speech. The technology is used for a wide range of applications, including delivering emails for unified messaging systems, providing prompts for interactive voice response (IVR) applications, and speech-enabling mobile, automotive, game and PC/multi-media applications. ScanSoft RealSpeak offers unmatched support for hardware systems, including Hitachi, Intel® (Pentium®, Strong ARM® and XScale®), MIPS® and NEC®, as well as operating systems, including Linux®, Microsoft® Windows® and Windows® CE, and Sun Solaris®.
RealSpeak offers a single, standardized application programming interface (API) that enables the deployment of speech-enabled applications in 19 languages: US and UK English, German, French, Dutch & Belgian Dutch, Castilian and Mexican Spanish, Italian, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Danish and Cantonese & Mandarin Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
About ScanSoft
ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT) is the leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions that are used to automate a wide range of manual processes - saving time, increasing worker productivity and improving customer service. For more information regarding ScanSoft® products and technologies, please visit www.ScanSoft.com.
Trademark reference: ScanSoft and RealSpeak are registered trademarks or trademarks of ScanSoft Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company names or product names referenced herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
The Company notes that the statements in this release that relate to future plans, events, performance, including, without limitation, the projected shipment dates and customers' opting to upgrade to newer or more fully featured products, are forward-looking statements subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company's actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, market acceptance, engineering delays, quality assurance testing delays, contractual negotiations, successful completion of beta site testing, the scheduling of orders, changes in operating systems, a significant change in the competitive environment, timely delivery by component suppliers and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports. Readers are cautioned not to place undo reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.
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