ATLANTA and DUBLIN, Ireland, March 12, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc., recognized global pioneers of natural Human User Interface technologies for the mobile world, and Parthus (Nasdaq:PRTH) (LSE:PRH) a world-leading provider of platform level IP solutions for the mobile Internet market, today announced the porting of ART's speech and handwriting recognition engines to Parthus' InfoStream(TM) platform.
As the leading independent producer of speech and natural handwriting solutions for mobile devices, ART welcomes Parthus' choice of ART's smARTspeak NG, simpliWrite and smARTwriter recognition technologies for the InfoStream platform. smARTspeak NG offers voice-enabled features such as name dialing, continuous digit dialing, menu navigation and device control. simpliWrite and smARTwriter, ART's best of breed handwriting recognition technologies, uniquely recognize each users own handwriting and require no unique symbols or training by the user.
"With a twelve-year track record of market-proven recognition solutions, ART's technologies are fully optimized to the same leading operating systems as InfoStream, and perfectly honed both to our needs and to the demands of our customers," said Sean Mitchell, General Manager of Application & Multimedia Processing Division of Parthus Technologies. "ART's high-performance, low resource software maintains our guarantee to provide OEM's complete, market-ready solutions that incorporate best of breed technologies, and give their users the increasingly feature-rich experience they expect."
"ART is delighted to have been chosen as the recognition technology for the InfoStream platform for current and next generation mobile Internet devices," said Nir Ben-Dor, ART's Director of Sales and Business Development, Europe. "We are confident that Parthus clients will find our embedded software fully integrated into a platform that was designed to dramatically reduce development costs, accelerate time to market and speed ROI - the key elements to success in today's highly competitive market place."
Parthus' InfoStream Platform
Parthus' InfoStream is a highly advanced hardware and software mobile computing platform targeted at a wide variety of new generation smart connected devices. InfoStream leads the industry in the combination of raw processing power, power consumption requirements and levels of on-chip integration. The platform enables device manufacturers to drastically reduce time to market, enhance ROI and reduce risk for highly-featured Mobile-Internet device developments.
InfoStream is optimized for running a number of Operating Systems including Symbian OS, Microsoft WinCE Stinger and PocketPC, as well as Palm OS and Embedded Linux. The modular architecture enables support of key platforms within Parthus' portfolio, such as 2.5G/3G broadband wireless communications, Bluetooth(TM) for wireless local area networking, GPS for location-based services.
ART's smARTspeak NG Speech Recognition Solution
First to successfully combine all Voice Dialing and Control functions for speaker independent and speaker dependent systems, smARTspeak NG's comprehensive speech recognition algorithm is an all-in-one solution for operation in the tight processing power environment of today's mass-market mobile devices. The unique bundle allows OEMs to simply customize whichever functions they require onto a single mass produced model instead of having to choose which technologies to deploy on new devices.
Combining twelve years of ART's award-winning technologies, smARTspeak NG offers voice-enabled features such as name dialing, continuous digit dialing, menu navigation and device control. It also includes ART's latest innovation: a Speaker Independent Digit Dialing function with adaptation possibility for heavily accented International English - or any other language spoken with dialect. This simple 30-second adaptation allows further personalization according to the needs of each user.
ART's simpliWrite and smARTwriter Handwriting Recognition Solutions'Noise robust' to intuitively accept inaccurate or 'trembling' script, with continuous on-the-fly recognition, ART's best of breed handwriting recognition technologies have been globally proven by both manufacturers and end-users alike. With no new characters or symbols to learn, ART's revolutionary solutions demand no training, but recognize user's own natural handwriting. They currently support all major Western European languages, and also allow concurrent multilingual use. These technologies are also self-trainable and adjustable for special handwriting needs.
About Parthus Technologies
Parthus Technologies is the world's leading providers of semiconductor platform-level intellectual property (IP) solutions targeting the wireless, mobile Internet and automotive markets. Delivering the total platform solution (i.e. incorporating the radio, baseband and software design in one integrated solution) greatly speeds our licensees time-to-market whilst also reducing the cost, risk and complexity of getting their products to market. Parthus offers an unrivalled portfolio of platform level-IP spanning wireless communications (Bluetooth, 2.5G GSM/GPRS, 3G W-CDMA), and mobile computing, application and multimedia technologies (PDA/Smartphone for Microsoft, Symbian and Linux OS, mobile multimedia, GPS Location, application acceleration). The company leverages nine years of IP development expertise to deploy platforms either as stand-alone solutions, or as converged solutions which further enhance the cost, power and performance characteristics of platform level-IP. Parthus license Platform Level IP to the worlds leading semiconductor companies. Parthus is headquartered in Dublin with offices in nine countries and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:PRH) and NASDAQ (Nasdaq:PRTH). More information on Parthus is available at http://www.parthus.com.
About ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc.
Established in 1990, ART is the acknowledged pioneer and market leader in Natural User systems of embedded Speech and Handwriting Recognition for mobile devices. Having generated a decade of software innovation, today ART develops and markets technologically superior solutions for the control and command of mobile devices by the human voice and natural handwriting. Through its range of proprietary technologies based on unique, signal-processing algorithms, ART provides next-generation human user interface solutions for cellular handsets, smartphones, mobile communicators, PDAs and handhelds, and automotive systems.
ART's embedded software-only solutions are deployed in dozens of product lines from industry leaders such as Acer, Agere Systems, A.T. Cross, Casio, Franklin, GVC, Hitachi, Hutel, Konka, LGE, Maxon, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NeoPoint, Panasonic, Philips, Quanta, Samsung, Siemens Automotive, and TTPCom.
Based in the United States, with sales offices on the East and West Coasts, ART maintains a wholly owned Israeli subsidiary -- ART Ltd. -- where research and development are conducted. ART is active in the US, European, and Asian markets.
For more about ART see http://www.artcomp.com.
smARTspeak NG(TM) and simpliWrite(TM) are trademarks, and smARTwriter(R) a registered trademark of ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc. Names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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