Tja, slowdown, dann musst Du seit heute wohl auch AOL in Deine Liste aufnehmen :-)
An alle anderen Arivaner: Also ich will in 5 Jahren nicht mehr vor einer Tastatur sitzen und mich mit meinem 2-Fingersystem und jeder Menge Rechtschreibfehlern herumquälen. Spracherkennung ist die Zukunft.
LERNOUT & HAUSPIE ANNOUNCES LICENSING AGREEMENT WITH AMERICA ONLINE
Agreement to Cover Variety of L&H Information and Knowledge Management Tools
IEPER, BELGIUM and BURLINGTON, Mass. - March 13, 2000 - Lernout & Hauspie (NASDAQ: LHSP; EASDAQ: LHSP) (L&H™) ,a worldwide market leader in speech and linguistic technologies, products and services, today announced a licensing agreement with America Online (AOL) for L&H's Intelligent Content Management (ICM) tools, including spelling and grammar checking. L&H's high quality ICM tools leverage L&H's linguistic technologies to provide users with a way to enhance document searches, document management, and spell checking in a variety of applications.
The L&H™ tools will help AOL members by speeding and simplifying the viewing, rendering and browsing of information retrieved from the Internet. These L&H ICM tools include: IntelliScope® Language Recognizer, a tool that identifies more than 40 languages and codes, including HTML and XML formats; IntelliScope® Search Enhancer, an information retrieval tool that performs a morphological analysis to provide additional depth and breadth to searches; CorrectEnglish™, a tool that corrects errors commonly made by speakers of other languages when they write in English; and International ProofReader™, a proofing application that extends the automated text analysis and correction capabilities of L&H's other spell-checking systems to include a myriad of grammatical, usage, formatting and hyphenation errors.
"Advanced natural language technologies will play an important role in sifting through information and recognizing words in context in a variety of applications, especially Internet-based material," said Gerald Calabrese, senior vice president of worldwide sales for L&H. "As L&H continues to license our ICM tools to customers like AOL, we continue to demonstrate how our natural language tools can provide added intelligence to the business platform of tomorrow."
"We are pleased to be working with several of L&H's language technologies," said Martin Fisher, senior vice president of client development AOL. "L&H's spelling and grammar checking tools provide instant value to our users, who are increasingly turning to our e-mail and search tools as communication tools to help make their everyday lives easier."
About Lernout & Hauspie
Lernout & 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: 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), digital speech and music compression (SMC) and text-to-text (translation). For more information, please visit Lernout & Hauspie on the World Wide Web at www.lhsl.com.
