am 7.März gab Needham & Co eine Kaufempfehlung für SSFT mit Kursziel 6,0$
(ich halte das für eher einen soliden Tip)
Scansoft hat aus der Konkursmasse von Lernout & Hauspie die Speech and Language Technilogie übernommen und ist jetzt führend im Bereich der Stimmerkennung und Sprachlösungen im Internet.
Heute wurde ein Vertrag mit Philips geschlossen,bereits am 7.März ein Vertrag mit Microsoft -und dies keineswegs bloss für ne Spielkonsole wie bei der Konkurrenz.
Anbei-leider wieder nur auf englisch-die News dazu:
March 14, 2002--ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT , a leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions, today announced that it has signed a license agreement with Philips Speech Processing, a business unit of Royal Philips Electronics and a global market leader in network-based speech applications. Philips has licensed ScanSoft's award-winning text-to-speech (TTS) technology, RealSpeak(TM), which will be deployed in fourteen different languages.
The agreement enables Philips to offer its customers the benefit of integrating high-quality, natural-sounding text-to-speech technology in its speech-enabled solutions such as directory assistance, call center service automation and voice portals. For ScanSoft, the agreement will extend the global reach of its technology through Philips as a significant channel to the telephony markets.
Under the terms of the agreement, Philips Speech Processing will combine RealSpeak with its leading-edge products, SpeechMania(R) and SpeechPearl(R). RealSpeak will be incorporated as the speech output component of SpeechMania, Philips' natural dialogue platform that automates telephone-based information and transaction services. ScanSoft's speech engine will also give a high-quality voice to Philips' flagship SpeechPearl, a software-only solution that is integrated with voice processing platforms. SpeechPearl is used for a variety of telephone applications, such as unified messaging, customer care and information services, banking applications, name dialing and many others.
Matthias Pankert, director of product strategy and planning at Philips Speech Processing/Telephony Solutions said, "Philips teamed up with ScanSoft to provide our customers around the world with high-quality speech technologies for their telephony solutions. For these solutions ScanSoft is the leading market player that can deliver so many different languages of high-quality, natural-sounding voice. We are delighted to have formed this alliance with ScanSoft, one that strengthens our commitment to enable human-like automated telephone information services
4.März:ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT a leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions, today announced that Microsoft's telematic software platform, Windows CE for Automotive 3.5, has shipped with ScanSoft's speech and language technologies.
Recently, Microsoft upgraded the voice component of its automotive software platform to include ScanSoft's high-performance, phonetic-based speech recognition engine as the reference implementation. Microsoft and ScanSoft will demonstrate the new speech engine at the Digital Car Show in Detroit, Michigan, this week.
To provide Microsoft and the automotive industry with innovative speech technology, ScanSoft has developed a SAPI5-compliant version of the ScanSoft(R) RealSpeak(TM) Compact text-to-speech (TTS) engine. This technology is now available to major automotive vendors and will allow them to more easily incorporate the most human-sounding male and female voices available on the market today.
(ich halte das für eher einen soliden Tip)
Scansoft hat aus der Konkursmasse von Lernout & Hauspie die Speech and Language Technilogie übernommen und ist jetzt führend im Bereich der Stimmerkennung und Sprachlösungen im Internet.
Heute wurde ein Vertrag mit Philips geschlossen,bereits am 7.März ein Vertrag mit Microsoft -und dies keineswegs bloss für ne Spielkonsole wie bei der Konkurrenz.
Anbei-leider wieder nur auf englisch-die News dazu:
March 14, 2002--ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT , a leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions, today announced that it has signed a license agreement with Philips Speech Processing, a business unit of Royal Philips Electronics and a global market leader in network-based speech applications. Philips has licensed ScanSoft's award-winning text-to-speech (TTS) technology, RealSpeak(TM), which will be deployed in fourteen different languages.
The agreement enables Philips to offer its customers the benefit of integrating high-quality, natural-sounding text-to-speech technology in its speech-enabled solutions such as directory assistance, call center service automation and voice portals. For ScanSoft, the agreement will extend the global reach of its technology through Philips as a significant channel to the telephony markets.
Under the terms of the agreement, Philips Speech Processing will combine RealSpeak with its leading-edge products, SpeechMania(R) and SpeechPearl(R). RealSpeak will be incorporated as the speech output component of SpeechMania, Philips' natural dialogue platform that automates telephone-based information and transaction services. ScanSoft's speech engine will also give a high-quality voice to Philips' flagship SpeechPearl, a software-only solution that is integrated with voice processing platforms. SpeechPearl is used for a variety of telephone applications, such as unified messaging, customer care and information services, banking applications, name dialing and many others.
Matthias Pankert, director of product strategy and planning at Philips Speech Processing/Telephony Solutions said, "Philips teamed up with ScanSoft to provide our customers around the world with high-quality speech technologies for their telephony solutions. For these solutions ScanSoft is the leading market player that can deliver so many different languages of high-quality, natural-sounding voice. We are delighted to have formed this alliance with ScanSoft, one that strengthens our commitment to enable human-like automated telephone information services
4.März:ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT a leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions, today announced that Microsoft's telematic software platform, Windows CE for Automotive 3.5, has shipped with ScanSoft's speech and language technologies.
Recently, Microsoft upgraded the voice component of its automotive software platform to include ScanSoft's high-performance, phonetic-based speech recognition engine as the reference implementation. Microsoft and ScanSoft will demonstrate the new speech engine at the Digital Car Show in Detroit, Michigan, this week.
To provide Microsoft and the automotive industry with innovative speech technology, ScanSoft has developed a SAPI5-compliant version of the ScanSoft(R) RealSpeak(TM) Compact text-to-speech (TTS) engine. This technology is now available to major automotive vendors and will allow them to more easily incorporate the most human-sounding male and female voices available on the market today.
