TTPCom Chooses ART's smARTspeak XG

ATLANTA, GA and CAMBRIDGE, UK - ART Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. and TTPCom Ltd., the independent supplier of digital wireless communications technology, announced that TTPCom will be porting ART's smARTspeak XG speech recognition technology onto TTPCom's GPRS platform. The announcement renews the companies' joint commitment to provide GSM manufacturers worldwide with the most sophisticated phones available. By adding smARTspeak XG to any TTPCom based handset, OEMs improve ease of use without any hardware change, and with no extra integration effort. The smARTspeak XG is an embedded, phoneme-based speaker independent name dialing solution designed for mass-market wireless mobile device deployment. "TTPCom is committed to offering its handset customers the very latest technology. By pre-integrating smARTspeak XG onto the TTPCom platform we reduce product development time, enabling our customers to deliver leading-edge phones quickly," said Neil Werdmuller, 2.5G Applications Product Manager at TTPCom. "smARTspeak XG's breakthrough speaker independent name dialing solution offers users even greater flexibility and we are pleased to be one of the first to carry it on our GPRS platform." "We are highly confident that TTPCom's global customers will be delighted with the comprehensive range of voice functionality that the revolutionary smARTspeak XG now brings," said Nir Ben-Dor, ART's Director of Sales and Business Development, Europe. "By enhancing TTPCom's already popular GPRS platform, it helps maintain the high standard of technology they offer OEMs and gives TTPCom and its customers a feature that adds true value to their devices."