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[KiKo]

LHSP WKN: 898430

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Lernout & Hauspie


Ich habe versucht, die neuesten Berichte nach oben zu stellen, aufgrund der Fülle nicht so einfach. Bin pers. stark beeindruckt, den Wert sollte man sich ganz nach oben auf die Watchlist setzen oder gleich einen Teil ins Depot. Anm: Ich halte noch keine Aktien.
Viel Spaß beim Lesen.

Hier schonmal ein paar Firmen/Phrasen die auftauchen:

- Intel
- Microsoft
- AOL
- Yahoo
- Deutsche Telekom
- Ericsson
- Linux
- PDA
- Investment company
- Spracherkennung
- Handhelds
- Cebit
- in einer nächsten Windows-Versin
- enormes Potential/günstig/kaufen

- ach ja - es geht das Gerücht um Union Capital LTD. (UCL 875732) könnte bald mit L&H in Verbindung gebracht werden... warten wir es ab...


Yours digitally "in 3Sprachen"
KiKo

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Last Update: 4:33 AM ET Mar 8, 2000 NewsWatch
IEPER, Belgium (CBS.MW) --

Speech recognition technology specialist Lernout & Hauspie said Wednesday it`s agreed to buy privately held Dictaphone Corporation for stock and assumed debt.

Updated: 03/01/2000 2:27:36 PM ET

L&H (LHSP: news, msgs) will acquire all of Dictaphone`s stock in exchange for 4.75 million L&H shares, plus $425 million of Dictaphone debt. The deal is estimated to be worth $936 million in stock and assumed debt, according to press reports.
Dictaphone is controlled by a fund managed by Stonington Partners, a New York private investment fund, which has agreed to hold 2 million of the shares it will receive for two years and hand over voting rights to the new company. L&H expects the deal to be completed by the end of April.
L&H, which has headquarters in Burlington, Mass., said in a statement that it expects the deal to be boost its earnings, excluding goodwill and after replacing the debt. In fiscal year 1999, Dictaphone had revenues of $350 million.
"As the leader in the medical dictation and patient record management market, Dictaphone Corporation gives L&H instant access to the resources to facilitate our launch of an entity dedicated to healthcare solutions," said Gaston Bastaiens, president and CEO of L&H.
Shares of L&H were down 2.9 euros at 110 vs. Tuesday`s closing price of 112.87.

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2000--
L&H RealSpeak and L&H ASR 1600 provides human sounding text-to-speech and accurate speech recognition features for message management system

Intersis (www.us.voixx.com) today announced they will license L&H(TM) (NASDAQ: LHSP; EASDAQ: LHSP) RealSpeak(TM) and L&H(TM) ASR 1600 automatic speech recognition to provide speech capabilities in the recently shipped VoiXX version 2.5 voice for Microsoft Exchange/Outlook. VoiXX(R) offers an easy, cost-effective way to add voice messaging functionality to Microsoft Exchange by using existing hardware and an inexpensive voice modem. The integration of L&H`s award-winning speech technologies provides a more intuitive interface for VoiXX users.
L&H RealSpeak, a breakthrough text-to-speech (TTS) engine, reads any text in a human sounding voice enabling users to access e-mail from any telephone. In addition, L&H`s multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology provides "hands free" access to the VoiXX inbox from any telephone enabling users to simply speak commands to navigate through menus and manage messages. With L&H`s speech recognition technology the need for callers to use the telephone keypad to "spell out" employees` names is eliminated. Instead, users are able to speak the name of the person they need to contact and have VoiXX make the connection. Other new features of VoiXX version 2.5 include telephone access to the Microsoft Outlook Contacts folder, support for pagers and SMS (Short Messaging Service), one-touch outbound dialing through the PBX, additional language support, and an improved client interface.
"VoiXX is an example of how speech and language technology is being used to create more intuitive interfaces," said Pam Ravesi, senior director of product management at L&H. "Consumers are demanding a more natural way to interact with their computers and L&H`s speech and language technology is enabling developers to respond to this demand. Users are able to more easily and intuitively communicate with a computer from anywhere at any time simply by using their voice."
"When we looked for a speech technology leader to enhance VoiXX, we found that L&H exceeded our expectations with L&H RealSpeak," said Randal DePriest, director and vice president for Intersis. "With VoiXX 2.5, Unified Messaging has reached a new level. It no longer matters if you have a voice mail message or an e-mail message, you can access them the same way through a PC or any telephone in the world."
For example, using VoiXX 2.5, a user can send and receive voice or e-mail messages through their Microsoft Exchange/Outlook account or any telephone. When the user receives an e-mail or voice message in their inbox, VoiXX can be configured to automatically call the user on their cell phone and play the message or use natural text-to-speech technology to read the message to the user. The user can then reply to the message in their own voice and VoiXX will send a recorded voice reply to the original sender via e-mail.
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Hollandje Frittjes:

Intel en LHSP starten joint-venture

AMSTERDAM - Intel wil spraak toepassen bij elektronische handel. Daartoe heeft het een samenwerking opgezet met Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (Lhsp). Daarnaast steekt de Amerikaanse processorfabrikant dertig miljoen dollar in de Belgische ontwikkelaar van spraaktechnologie.
Door de komst van steeds snellere en krachtigere processoren komt het toepassen van gecompliceerde spraaksoftware dichterbij. Daarnaast wil Intel niet alleen bekend staan om zijn processoren, maar streeft het ernaar `basisleverancier voor de Internet-economie` te worden. "Met behulp van spraaksturing wordt het voor de gebruiker aanmerkelijk simpeler om informatie via Internet te vergaren", aldus Ron Whittier van Intels content group.
Intel heeft 51 procent van de aandelen in de nieuw op te zetten onderneming en brengt de hardwaretechnologie in. Lhsp krijgt de rest van de aandelen en draagt zorg voor de software. Met de genoemde investering in Lhsp verkrijgt Intel 3 tot 4 procent van de aandelen in die onderneming.

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BRUSSELS, March 8 (Reuters) -

Belgian speech technology company Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) said on Wednesday its acquisition of Dictaphone would add to 2000 earnings before goodwill amortisation.

L&H said earlier on Wednesday it was buying the U.S. dictation and call centre recording company for 4.75 million in shares.
"It will be accretive for the year 2000, disregarding amortisation of goodwill," Chief Financial Officer Carl Dammekens told a telephone news conference.
L&H Co-chairman Paul Hauspie said the acquisition would provide geographical and product synergies.
"Dictaphone is 90-95 percent in the United States. L&H is extremely strong on Asia-Pacific. If we can add that to the customer base of Dictaphone we are sure we have a winning game," he said.
Hauspie said L&H would incorporate its technologies into Dictaphone`s medical dictation and call centre products.
Hauspie said L&H was still considering spinning off parts of its business and that the Dictaphone acquisition presented further opportunities for such operations.
"With this acquisition, a fantastic spin-off opportunity is born," he told reporters, but declined to give further details.
L&H shares were up $4.9 dollars at $114.25 dollars on the pan-European Easdaq index at 1015 GMT.
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Lernout adds Linux, voice software to handheld

By Stephanie Miles
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 7, 2000, 5:25 p.m. PT

Lernout & Hauspie wants PDA users to talk to the hand.
The speech recognition software company is hoping to gain attention this week with a product prototype that combines some of the trendiest technology around--PDAs (personal digital assistants), speech recognition, wireless Internet access and the Linux operating system--into one package. Lernout & Hauspie is touting the new device at the Demo 2000 conference in Indian Wells, Calif., an annual show devoted to unveiling new technologies and Net companies.
Code-named Nuk, from Nukulu, the Hawaiian word for "echo," the device purportedly allows users to search the Web, compose emails and organize files, all through voice commands. The Nuk is expected to ship by the end of the year. The company is looking for potential manufacturing partners at the Demo 2000 conference, according to a company spokesperson.
"Most users employ handheld and mobile devices on the go, often requiring hands-free use," Gaston Bastiaens, president of Lernout & Hauspie, said in a statement. "Most also find that manual information input and output is awkward because of the small size of handheld and mobile devices."
Running on the Linux operating system and powered by a StrongARM processor, the company`s prototype puts it in the middle of the rapidly emerging market of information appliances, scaled-down computing devices that stand out by being simple to use.
Expected to outpace shipments of consumer computers by 2002, according to an International Data Corp. research report, appliances and devices are being looked at with interest from everyone from PC manufacturers to household appliance makers.
"Right now, we`re just getting started," said Kevin Hause, an analyst with IDC, speaking about the information appliance market. "It will be one of the fastest growing categories around."
One of the challenges, however, remains figuring out what customers will want in an Internet device . Some analysts and industry executives, for instance, believe cell phones with built-in organizers will become a hot commodity, a notion that others scoff at.
Lernout`s trump card comes in speech recognition, one of those supposed "must have" technologies that few seem to buy. Some experts, including noted industry veteran Jeff Hawkins, co-founder of Palm Computing, have publicly disavowed speech recognition on small devices like PDAs.
In addition, speech recognition, which until recently required too much processing power and memory capacity to work well on desktop computers, may be too demanding an application for devices with much smaller hardware capabilities and issues with battery.
Voice recognition, however, is a natural method for input for handhelds, the company maintains. Using the Lernout & Hauspie continuous speech recognition engine, users can dictate and send emails using voice commands. In addition, the technology allows users to do simple Web searches, process e-commerce transactions, and conduct online stock trades, all using the wireless Internet connection and voice commands.
"We put this together for the conference, to show how these technologies can work together, and to show what can be done," said a spokesperson from the company. "It`s interesting to see dictation on a handheld, because users aren`t going to be wanting devices they can`t interact with."
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Lernout founders start investment company

By Reuters
Special to CNET News.com
January 12, 1999, 4:50 a.m. PT

The two cofounders and cochairmen of Belgian speech technology company Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products today said they had started a new investment company focused on information technology companies.
The new firm, L&H Investment, would operate separately from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie said in a statement.
Lernout and Hauspie are the major investors in LHIC and, as part of the start-up, are placing just more than half of their 20 percent personal holdings in Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products in LHIC, the statement said.
LHIC has completed an investment in Applied Voice Recognition, a Texas-based developer and marketer of voice-recognition solutions for the health care information technology industry. LHIC has also invested in four private companies.
LHIC said it expects most of its investments to be in the range of 15 percent-plus stakes.
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etwas älter:

Spacherkennungssoftware: Lernout & Hauspie
Das in Belgien ansässige Softwarehaus Lernout & Hauspie ist führend in der Entwicklung angewandter Sprachtechnologie für verschiedene kommerzielle Anwendungen und Produkte. Das Unternehmen besteht aus vier Divisionen: Haupttechnologie, Übersetzungsservices, Internet-Services und Diktieren, eine Abteilung, die sich mit der mündlichen Spracheingabe beschäftigt. Die vier Haupttechnologien, die von Lernout & Hauspie entwickelt wurden, sind Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), eine sprecher-unabhängige Anwendung, die natürlich und fließend gesprochene Worte, zusam-menhängende Zahlen, isolierte Worte sowie das Alphabet in verschiedenen Sprachen erkennen kann; zum zweiten ist es Text-To-Speech (TTS), das jeden vom Computer lesbaren Text in natürlich klingende Sprache umwandelt; drittens gibt es Speech & Music Coding (SMC), eine Anwendung für digitale Sprachkompression, die den Umfang von Stimmen- oder Audio-Files für die Übertragung oder Speicherung bei gleichbleibender Qualität erheblich verringern kann; last but not least vertreibt das Unternehmen eine Übersetzungsanwendung (Text-To-Text).
Ein Produkt aus der Unternehmensdivision ASR ist z.B. Kurzweil Voicepad. Mit Hilfe dieses Programmes lassen sich durch einfaches Sprechen Briefe, Memos sowie Reports kreieren. Ein weiteres Programm ist der Kurzweil Clinical Reporter, ein leistungsstarkes, auf Stimmeneingabe basierendes Dokumentationssystem für die klinischen Bereiche Pathologie, Radiologie, Kardiologie, stationäre und ambulante Pflege sowie Notfall-Medizin. Der Erfolg der L&H-Produkte liegt zum Großteil darin, daß sie die einzigen unabhängigen, auf verschiedenen Software- und Hardwareplattformen lauffähigen Lösungen sind.Um speziell den Bereich Übersetzungen auszubauen, wurden in Europa mehrere Akquisitionen getätigt.
So wurden in Schweden, Italien und Finnland die auf Übersetzungen spezialisierten Firmen Wordwork, Kermit sowie Trantex gekauft. Jedes dieser drei Unternehmen beherrschte den Markt des jeweiligen Landes und soll weiterhin die Marktführerschaft von L&H sichern. In Zusammenarbeit mit diesen Unternehmen kann auch die Weiterentwicklung von multilingualen Übersetzungsprogrammen vorangetrieben werden.Strategische Allianzen bestehen mit MedQuist Inc. zur Verbesserung der medizinischen Berichtssysteme. Die weitaus interessantere Zusammenarbeit besteht aber mit Microsoft, die eine Beteiligung von 110 Mio. US-$ an dem Unternehmen planen. Außerdem soll die neue Generation von sprachgestützten Dateneingabelösungen in die Windows-Plattform integriert werden.

Für das Geschäftsjahr 1997 wurde ein um 220 % gesteigerter Umsatz in Höhe von 99,2 Mio. US-$ bekanntgegeben. Das Nettoeinkommen betrug im gleichen Zeitraum 22 Mio. US-$ oder 1,14 US-$ je Aktie. Das Nettoeinkommen fällt jedoch bei näherer Betrachtung erheblich geringer aus, da noch ein außerordentlicher Aufwand berücksichtigt werden muß. In den folgenden Geschäfts-
jahren 1998 und 1999 erwarten Analysten Gewinne in Höhe von 1,47 US-$ sowie 2,11 US-$ je Aktie.
Charttechnisch befindet sich die Aktie in einem einwandfreien Aufwärtstrend. Wir rechnen mit einem Kursanstieg auf 120 US-$ von derzeit 95 US-$ innerhalb der kommenden 12 Monate.
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Spracherkennungssysteme Lernout & Hauspie

Softwarepaket mit Diktier- und Übersetzungsfunktionen
Lernout & Hauspie werden auf der CeBIT unter dem Namen Global Communicator ein PC-Software-Paket vorstellen, das Diktier- und Übersetzungsfunktionen integriert. Basierend auf der Diktier-Software L&H VoiceXpress ermöglicht das neue Produkt dem Anwender – in der ersten Version vorerst in englischer Sprache – zu diktieren und den Text auf Knopfdruck in fünf verschiedene Sprachen (deutsch, französisch, italienisch, spanisch und portugiesisch) übersetzen zu lassen. Des weiteren wird das Unternehmen die deutsche Version seiner menschlich klingenden, jedoch künstlich erzeugten Stimme RealSpeak demonstrieren. Diese weit fortgeschrittene Sprachtechnologie wird nun erstmals in Anwendungen im Bereich High-End-Telefonie eingesetzt werden.
>>> weitere Informationen zu Spracherkennungssystemen finden Sie unter www.diktatstarten.de
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Kontakt:

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Börsenspot

Lernout & Hauspie: Enormes Potential

Von Stephan Hornung*
Mit seinen Produkten in den Bereichen Spracherkennungs- und Übersetzungssoftware ist das an der Easdaq und Nasdaq notierte belgische Unternehmen Lernout & Hauspie (LHSP) in einem der Zukunftsmärkte des nächsten Jahrtausends bestens positioniert. Schon in den vergangenen Jahren konnte LHSP mit hervorragenden Zahlen glänzen. Nach einem Umsatz von knapp 100 Millionen Dollar im Jahr 1997 wurden 1998 bereits 211 Millionen Dollar Dollar eingenommen. Der Gewinn kletterte im gleichen Zeitraum von 20 auf 38 Millionen Dollar. Zur LHSP-Klientel gehören unter anderem Intel, die Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Hitachi, Microsoft, Nortel, GTE, America Online (AOL) und Yahoo. Intel und Microsoft haben sich sogar an LHSP beteiligt. Allein in diesem Jahr investierten die beiden IT-Giganten weitere 45 Millionen Dollar in das Unternehmen. Erfolgversprechend dürfte dabei vor allem die Partnerschaft mit Microsoft sein - gelangt doch die Software der Belgier in einer der nächsten Windows-Versionen zum Einsatz. Durch den Kooperationsvertrag mit Yahoo kommt nun auch Internet-Phantasie in die Aktie. LHSP wird den Text spezieller Webseiten in die jeweili- ge Landessprache übersetzten. Trotz dieser hervorragenden Aussichten ist die Aktie derzeit mit einem 2000er Kurs-Gewinn-Verhältnis von unter 30 günstig bewertet. Sollte LHSP seine führende Marktstellung behalten können, verfügt die Aktie auf längere Sicht über ein enormes Potential. (Weitere Börsen-Infos: www.computerwoche.de).
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Kurs weist nach oben: Lernout & Hauspie

Boom bei Spracherkennung: Seit unserer letzten Empfehlung entwickelte sich die Aktie von Lernout & Hauspie (L & H) sehr freundlich. Die Belgier stellen Software für Spracherkennung, -wiedergabe und Übersetzungen her. Die Produkte werden seit kurzem auch im Internet eingesetzt. Nachdem sich anfangs Yahoo für die L & H-Software entschieden hat, setzt nun auch Microsoft die Lösungen ein. Der größte Wachstumsmarkt dürfte für L & H aber in der mobilen Kommunikation liegen. Denn künftige Handys werden - vor allem bei Internet-Anwendungen - vermutlich nicht über die Tastatur, sondern via Spracherkennung bedient werden. Sollten sich die Belgier hier etablieren können, steht die Aktie erst am Anfang einer Aufwärtsbewegung. Dies würdigte auch Dresdner Kleinwort Benson und stufte die Notiz mit einem Kursziel von vorerst 73 Dollar auf "Kaufen" ein.
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Bitte um rege Diskussion. Und Gruß an alle UCL-Aktionäre.

Yours digitally
KiKo

[YO_MAN]

Hallo KiKo,
bin "erschlagen" von der Fülle deiner Info. Aber ich unterschreibe absolut,dass es sich um einen extrem interessanten wert handelt. Vorallem bis jetzt wenig bekannt, und deswegen vergleichsweise billig. Rate Dir dringend auf dem heute etwas gedrückten Niveau zum Einstieg. Sollte die Nasdaq nicht nochmal deutlich ins Minus drehen, kostet der Wert sicher bald mehr. Split 1:2 im April!

[ethues]

Speech technology: www.FONIX.com (OTC BB FONX 2.5$)
Small footprint: embedded in
.INTEL StrongARM processor
.Infineon (siehe CASIOpedia)
.Microsoft WinCE2
>Text to speech
>Automatic Voice/Speech recognition
>Handwriting recognition
Embedded = license to print money !!!!
LHSP ist nichts dagegen. LHSP hat ANGST !!!!
Ich bin von Belgien und weis wie stark FONIX ist!!
Heute noch billig: 2.5$ Ende Marz >5$ in einige Monaten >50$

[ethues]

FONIX = handheld devices und Handy`s brauchbar wegen kleine footprint.
Application von General Magic MyTalk hat uber 500.000 gebraucher in USA und wird im Oktober angeboten beim General Motors ON*STAR + AOL.
Miljonen von GM Fahrzeugen standard ausgerusted mit voice technology von FONIX (und General MAGIC).

http://www.FONIX.com = technology fur Handy`s und Handheld Devices.

Siehe http://www.ragingbull.com FONX

[ethues]

LHSP hat eine alte lame Ente gekauft mit Ditaphone. Shau mal Selber die website und die Produkten an.
Zukunft = www.FONIX.com
FONIX embedded im INTEL StrongARM processor
embedded im Infineon porcessor (CEBIT mit CASIOpedia auf Siemens )
embedded im Microsoft WinCE2

[ethues]

### FONX PRESS RELEASE ###

Tuesday March 7, 2:00 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Fonix Corporation
Fonix Speech Products Demonstrated at CT Expo in Los Angeles; Human Quality Fonix TTS Available for Internet Applications
SALT LAKE CITY, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Fonix(TM) Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: FONX - news) announced today that it will demonstrate its text-to-speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) products at the Computer Telephony Spring Expo March 7 - 9, in Los Angeles, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Fonix TTS provides the critical voice output link in Internet voice portals for web and e-mail access from any telephone.

Fonix TTS, including both male and female American English voices, demonstrates a significant advancement over conventional TTS technologies in natural human voice intonation (prosody) and listening quality. The Fonix TTS products are available at booth number 2927 at the CT Expo show.

``Fonix TTS products allow Call Technologies to easily and quickly incorporate high-quality, natural sounding text-to-speech into our communications products,`` said Glen Hellman, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, of Call Technologies. ``We chose Fonix for voice quality and speed. For example, one 400-MHz Pentium can serve 96 voice ports on just two channels of Fonix TTS. This ability allows us to meet our customers` needs quickly and effectively.``

Fonix ASR, TTS and handwriting recognition technologies are currently available on six server environments including Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT, Solaris Sparc and Solaris X86, AIX and, are ported to multiple micro-processors and operating systems for embedded environments.

About Fonix Corporation

Fonix Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: FONX - news) develops and markets software products that enable intuitive human interaction with computers, consumer electronics, and other intelligent devices. Leading chip manufactures, independent software and hardware vendors, and other Internet content providers incorporate Fonix technologies to make their products easier and more convenient to use. Fonix products, including text-to-speech (TTS), automatic speech recognition (ASR) and handwriting recognition technology, provide the most natural communication solutions available. Fonix solutions can be easily implemented on multiple hardware and software platforms via the Fonix FAAST(TM) (Fonix Advanced Application Speech Toolkit) software development kit. For more information visit www.fonix.com or call [phone].

[ethues]

March 7-9/2000* Computer Telephony Expo http://www.ctexpo.com/
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SALT LAKE CITY, Mar 7, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Fonix(TM) Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: FONX) announced today that it will demonstrate its text-to-speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) products at the Computer Telephony Spring Expo March 7 - 9, in Los Angeles, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Fonix TTS provides the critical voice
output link in Internet voice portals for web and e-mail access from any telephone. Fonix TTS, including both male and female American English voices, demonstrates a significant advancement over conventional TTS technologies in natural human voice intonation (prosody) and listening quality. The Fonix TTS products are available at booth number 2927 at the CT Expo show.
"Fonix TTS products allow Call Technologies to easily and quickly incorporate high-quality, natural sounding text-to-speech into our communications products," said Glen Hellman, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, of Call Technologies. "We chose Fonix for voice quality and speed. For example, one 400-MHz Pentium can serve 96 voice ports on just two channels of Fonix TTS. This ability allows us to meet our customers` needs quickly and effectively." Fonix ASR, TTS and handwriting recognition technologies are currently available on six server environments including Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT, environments.
Corporate Communications: Kelly R. Kenyon, 801-553-6600, [e-mail]
Investor Relations: Michelle Aamodt, 801-328-0161, [e-mail]
SOURCE Fonix Corporation
(C) 2000 PR Newswire. All rights reserved.
http://www.prnewswire.com -0-
CONTACT: Corporate Communications: Kelly R. Kenyon, 801-553-6600,
[e-mail], or Investor Relations: Michelle Aamodt, 801-328-0161,
[e-mail], both of Fonix Corporation
/Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/144773.html or fax,
800-758-5804, ext. 144773
URL: http://www.fonix.com
Fonix FAAST Embedded 1.0 SDK Features Graphical User Interface
SALT LAKE CITY and CHICAGO, March 1/2000 /PRNewswire/ -- Fonix Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: FONX) announced today at the Embedded Systems Conference in Chicago, Illinois the release of FAAST(TM) (Fonix Application Accelerator Speech Toolkit) SDK designed for rapid development and implementation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) applications for embedded environments. Pre-release copies of FAAST are being distributed to developers at the Fonix, Microsoft and Epson booths at the Embedded Systems Conference and will be available at the Fonix booth at the Computer Telephony Expo Spring 2000 in Los Angeles next week. The release of FAAST Embedded 1.0 SDK comes after testing and feedback from a number of beta partners including Intel, Microsoft, Epson, Infineon and others. (All the free disks were gobbled up at the show!)
"The FAAST SDK offers a significant competitive advantage for developers of speech applications for embedded systems," said John A. Oberteuffer, vice president Technology of Fonix. "This SDK allows developers to quickly prototype applications and to directly create code for a variety of popular microprocessors. This capability is especially important to meet the increasingly short product cycles in today`s market for embedded products." Fonix FAAST Embedded 1.0 SDK offers a drag and drop graphical user interface for rapidly building speech input and speech output into embedded applications. The FAAST SDK currently supports seven microprocessors/DSP platforms and the Microsoft Windows CE operating system. Fonix FAAST offers speaker independent, noise immune, and continuous speech recognition, with a small memory footprint and low MIPS requirements. Fonix speech output (text-to-speech) provides a high-quality natural voice in a small footprint engine. FAAST 1.0 allows developers to build an ASR and TTS command and control speech application very quickly then download the program to a target platform for testing and optimization. FAAST allows a developer to build speech applications by dragging graphical icons representing speech functions to a workpad and connecting them with drag and release lines to form a speech application. Text-to-speech can be added as prompts or confirmation to any speech command via a node wizard function. Once built, recognition accuracy and optimization can be monitored and adjusted on-screen in an inspection window.
*Feb 28-March 2/2000* Embedded Systems Conference, Chicago
http://embedded.com/frameindex.htm?spring/index.htm
Fonix Demonstrates at Embedded Systems Conference Fonix Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Now Available on Microsoft Windows CE Salt Lake City, Utah - February 28, 2000 -- Fonix Corporation announced today that it will present its FAAST (Fonix Application Accelerator Speech Toolkit) at the Spring Embedded Systems Conference February 28 ­ March 2, in Chicago, Illinois at the McCormick Center South. Microsoft has selected Fonix for inclusion in its Partners Pavilion at the Spring Embedded Systems Conference to demonstrate rapid application deployment of speech recognition and text-to-speech applications running in the Windows CE environment. "Microsoft is impressed with the speech recognition and text-to speech products that Fonix has developed," said Don Chouinard, marketing manager of Windows CE OS and Tools at Microsoft Corp. "Windows CE is designed to be a rich, yet flexible, operating system offering complete solutions that help developers get their products to market quicker, and the FAAST rapid application tool from Fonix will help developers do just that." "As part of Microsoft`s Embedded Tools Partners program, Fonix has been able to rapidly port to CE and now is positioned to immediately provide speech and handwriting recognition to customers using the CE operating system," said Thomas A. Murdock, president and CEO of Fonix. "Our FAAST Embedded 1.0 rapid application development tool will allow developers to select a platform, build a speech program, then download it to their target processor running on Windows CE. This is a significant leap forward in implementing speech in embedded environments now - today." Fonix will have available at the conference pre-release demonstration CDs of FAAST. (All free CD`s were distributed at conference!!) Fonix offers rapid recognition, speaker independent, noise tolerant speech solutions, in addition to the most natural, human quality text-to-speech available. With small memory footprints and low power requirements, Fonix core technologies are currently ported to seven different microprocessors and are being deployed in embedded applications and products. Demonstrations at the conference provide thousands of developers the opportunity to witness speech technology running on chips currently available in the marketplace.
FROM THE COMPANY: 03/01/2000: From Michelle at Fonix: Asked if there could be a possibility of a deal with Qualcom, - (based on the deal MSFT just struck with Qalcom); She said "I have been instructed not to pre-announce. When contracts are signed; We will issue a press release". She also stated; "Fonix has alliances with major companies; Fonix would not have those alliances if we did not have the operating capital to be able to fullfill those contracts and obligations". (They have a new PR person who is in her late 30`s, and has experience in PR for technologies. Michelle also stated that this woman realizes - the importance of news on the net.) She also said that they have had a problem like this before with Bloomberg and it really serves nobody`s best interest to get their lawyers involved...too costly. They are, however, discussing a PR stating that they do have sufficient operating capital, and she encourages all investors to call and get the real story from FONIX.
Mar/01/2000 11:19 Fonix Soars, Boosted by Internet Chat and Breakthrough Hopes
Salt Lake City, March 1 (Bloomberg) -- Fonix Corp. shares surged in the past three days, fueled by messages on Internet bulletin boards talking up the company`s products for speech and handwriting recognition. The Salt Lake City company`s shares rose 3/8 to 2 7/8 in early trading of 8 million shares. Yesterday, Fonix was the most active stock in U.S. markets, gaining $1.08 to 2 1/2 on trading of 45 million shares. At year-end, Fonix traded at 29 cents. Small investors have scooped up Fonix as optimistic messages flooded stock bulletin boards, with more than 15,000 posted on Ragingbull.com alone last month. The Internet messages reflect excitement that Fonix will be demonstrating its software within a Microsoft Corp. booth area at a trade show in Chicago. ``Fundamentals are strong,`` said one investor`s message on Ragingbull`s board. ``If MICROSOFT is interested in FONIX technology; how many other technology companies and telecoms are (will be) also?``
(Fonix has done all of these things: Existing products are starting to sell along with (new) software developers kits. Fonix has (and is) making strong deals to secure money for operating costs. A large issuing of stock was recently made and is selling at prices that will afford Fonix time to reap the benefits of it`s *"exponential marketing strategy". Fonix is currently working on the marketing of the StrongArm chip. (Fonix is in a total of seven microprocessor versions - on Intel and Infineon (Seimens) chips.) They have transformed from a developmental company; to a company starting to produce a revenue stream.... . *(Exponential Marketing Strategy: Overwhelming Market Domination through licensing and royalties. After Fonix is situated to control standards due to high quality of technology created and owned; (and number of vendors using their technology - that Fonix has basically given away); It will be coming back to them.... Give the people what they want, when they want it; and give them the best. Make it the standard. Then start making royalties off of it. Real profits for Fonix are a year away as it will take this long to get into enough devices.. I hope you can wait that long. This is just the "roll out". I feel Fonix will trade around $5.00 by march 31,2000.) It is not hard to follow the leads on Fonix. If you have doubts; do a little research your self; Look at some of these places:
*Feb 24-Mar 1/2000* CeBIT 2000 able see first prototype resulting from the partnership (Siemens) with Casio based on Windows CE http://www.siemens.com/infobank/presseinfo/2000/icn20000147e… (Casiopia Palm Net device)
*March 7-9/2000* Computer Telephony Expo http://www.ctexpo.com/
QUARTERLY OUT SOON!!!!!
*Feb 15-17/2000* Intel Developer Forum Designing Solutions for the Internet Economy Speech and Handwriting Recognition on StrongARM http://developer.intel.com/design/idf/spr2000/tracks/act/ses…
( Fall `99 Intel Developer Forum drew more than 3,000 people and triggered over 800 press articles, and the Spring 2000 edition is expected to be even bigger. )
02/15/2000 SEC FILING; Stock Employee Incentive Plan updated.
02/11/2000 SEC FILING; Stock offering: - for re-structuring debt, and operating costs..
02/21/2000 FONIX HAS UPDATED WEB HOME PAGE!!!! http://www.fonix.com
FEB 2-4 2000 FONX executives were featured at the "Telephony Voice User Interface Conference" sponsored by IBM, LUCENT, MOTOROLA, and UNISYS among others: http://www.tmaa.com/conf/index.htm
On Thursday Feb. 3, John Oberteuffer, Vice President of Technology, Fonix is giving a presentation on Accessing the Internet by Telephone - The Text-to-Speech Component http://www.tmaa.com/friday.htm On Friday Feb.4, Paul Clayson, Vice President, Business Development, Fonix is giving a presentation Text-to-Speech and Speaker Verification This session will allow attendees to hear variations in speech intelligibility, naturalness, and voice quality across different text-to-speech synthesis products. Differences in approaches to speaker verification validating who is talking will also be illustrated. http://www.tmaa.com/thursday.html
Tuesday February 15/2000 SOURCE: Andrea Electronics Corporation Andrea Electronics Launches New E-Commerce Site; Co-marketing Agreements Executed with Industry Leaders. MELVILLE, N.Y., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Andrea Electronics Corporation (Amex: AND - news) announced today the launch of its new e-commerce site, http://www.AudioCommander.com, at the Intel Developer Forum (``IDF``) Spring 2000, taking place in Palm Springs, California, February 15th to 17th. As part of the launch, Andrea Electronics has entered into several co-marketing agreements with key industry leaders offering next generation voice communications applications, including Fonix Corporation, HearMe (Nasdaq: HEAR - news), IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM - news), InterWise, Inc., Logitech, Inc. (Nasdaq: LOGIY - news), Net2Phone Inc. (Nasdaq: NTOP - news), Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. and Zeroplus.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZPLS - news).
Rocket eBook; NuvoMedia -- acquired by Gemstar - along with SoftBook Press .They WILL be setting the standard for eBooks.
Gemstar Enters Electronic-Book Business Through Acquisition of NuvoMedia Inc. and SoftBook Press Inc.
PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2000--Gemstar International Group Ltd. (Nasdaq:GMST - news) today announced its plan to enter the electronic-book business through the acquisition of the two leading eBook companies, NuvoMedia® Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., maker of the Rocket eBook(TM) (www.rocket-ebook.com), and SoftBook® Press Inc. (www.softbook.com) of Menlo Park, Calif., maker of the SoftBook® Reader.
Casio, Siemens in Net device deal Duo to make wireless palm-sized Net access terminal Last Update: 6:47 AM ET
Dec 15, 1999 NewsWatch MUNICH (CBS.MW) -- German electronics manufacturer Siemens AG and Japan`s No. 1watch-maker, Casio Computer Co., said Wednesday they`ve agreed to make a newWindows-based, palm-sized, wireless personal computer that can access the Net and make phone calls. Siemens ranks third among Europe`s makers of wireless communications devices usingglobal standards for mobile communications (GSM) technology, while Casio (csioy) bringsto the project its experience as a maker of the Cassiopeia Microsoft (msft) Windows CE-based multimedia palm-sized PC`s. "The marriage of Siemens communication technology with Cassiopeia multimediafeatures and functions promises to create powerful new products," said Kazuo Kashio, president of Casio. The companies plan to unveil a prototype of the still-unnamed device at a European technology trade show in February next year. They say it will come with full multimedia capabilities including digital music and video, a color touch screen, wireless e-mail and Internet access, mobile phone services, and personal information management software. The device is the first of what the companies said they anticipate will be a range of similar wireless devices that will work on GSM networks, which are prevalent in Europe, but also will have the "potential" to work on CDMA networks as well, which are common in the U.S. "This partnership builds on our respective strengths," said Peter Zapf, president of Siemens Communications Devices. "We intend to spearhead the next revolution that will be driven by the convergence of information and communications." Fonix has Japanese (English and German) Speech Recognition and Text to Speech (all languages) available on FAAST for developers of electronic devices via Siemens/Infineon. Siemens/Infineon is co-developing the next Cassiopia with Casio. It is near certainty that the new Cassiopia will be available with Fonix ASR/TTS as a data entry and internet navigational tool. The new Cassiopia is expected to be marketed by Feb. 2000 .
http://www.spacetools.com/tools3/space/397.htm
http://aolpf.marketwatch.com/source/blq/aolpf/archive/199912…
SALT LAKE CITY -- Nov. 23, 1999 --
FonixTM Corporation (NASDAQ: FONX) today announced that it has licensed its AllegroTM handwriting recognition software to NuvoMedia, Inc. for use in current and future versions of the highly successful Rocket eBookTM. The Allegro technology allows
users to employ handwriting inputs for searching the book contents and easily adding their own notes or annotations.
The five-year license agreement provides a per unit royalty payment to Fonix with a guaranteed minimum first year royalty.
"The Rocket eBook is one of the industries leading electronic books and Fonix is pleased to be working with NuvoMedia."
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* **FONX DD LIBRARY * **

Company Web Site (recently updated 2/28/2000)
http://www.fonix.com/

Recent Andrea News

After listening to this interview, I started thinking this may be a better alliance than I originally thought
http://www.radiowallstreet.com/companypage.cfm?CompanyID=271…

Andreas PRs
http://quicken.excite.com/investments/news/story/pr/?story=/…
http://quicken.excite.com/investments/news/story/djbn/?story…

Great article about Voice Recognition
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=…

Upcoming Events
*Feb 15-17* Intel Developer Forum Designing Solutions for the Internet Economy
Speech and Handwriting Recognition on StrongARM
http://developer.intel.com/design/idf/spr2000/tracks/act/ses…

Fall `99 Intel Developer Forum drew more than 3,000 people and triggered over 800 press articles, and the Spring 2000 edition is expected to be even bigger.

*Feb 24-Mar 1* CeBIT 2000 able see first prototype resulting from the partnership (Siemens) with Casio based on Windows CE
http://www.siemens.com/infobank/presseinfo/2000/icn20000147e…

*Feb 28-March 2* Embedded Systems Conference, Chicago
http://embedded.com/frameindex.htm?spring/index.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/embedded/etp/etpartners.asp

*March 7-9* Computer Telephony Expo
http://www.ctexpo.com/


Recent Informative Posts by FONX Longs

Quarterly Earnings Report Coming Soon
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

Outstanding shares after the recent SEC S-2/A
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

New Marketing Startegy
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

Fonix Plans to Generate Revenues From Latest SEC 10-Q
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

"1. Specific focus on markets where current revenues can be realized through a market
driven approach and away from markets focusing on continued research and development."

High-Quality TTS
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…


re-Listsing on NASDAQ

Appeal of delisting pending??? (anyone care to call Michelle and confirm?)
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

You can check out the NASDAQ listing requirements on the NASDAQ page
http://www.nasdaq.com/about/listing.stm

Excite@Home Connection

Excite@Home from GeneralMagic`s SEC 10-Q
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

In June 1999, Excite@Home launched the Excite Voicemail service, a free, advertising-supported service that allows Excite users to receive voicemail and faxes in their Excite email accounts. Excite Voicemail uses our magicTalk voice user interface to guide callers in leaving voicemail messages and faxes for registered Excite members. We host the service in our Sunnyvale, California network operations center. Special telephone lines have been installed to connect the Excite@Home operations center with our network operations center, allowing voicemail and faxes to appear in the Excite member`s mailbox.

Microsoft Relationship

Fonix Demonstrates Embedded and Internet Speech Technology at SpeechTEK `99 *Oct 19, 99*
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/oct/press101999.htm

"We partnered with Fonix because they`re a leader in the category of speaker-independent speech recognition and dynamic text-to-speech
capabilities," said Randy Kath, Director of Windows CE Tools at Microsoft

Microsoft Names Fonix as a Charter Member Of Its Embedded Tools Partner Program *Oct 26, 99*
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/oct/press102699a.htm

Clip from a local Utah Newspaper *Oct 27, 1999*
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

Charlie Peterson, the program manager for the embedded tools partnership program, said Microsoft did screen the companies. Its selection
of Fonix can be considered an endorsement of its programs, he said.

Portico-enabled Auto PC(Windows CE based) at CES
Easy Access to Internet-based Information While on the Road
http://www.genmagic.com/news/news_prrel990107.shtml

Intel Connection

Fonix Corporation Demonstrates Its Core Technologies At Embedded Systems Conference *Sept 29, 99*
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/sep/press092999.htm

Fonix will demonstrate its technologies running on the Intel StrongARM SA-1100 evaluation board
"This is not experimental technology, it is available today"

Presenting at the Intel Developer Forum
Designing Solutions for the Internet Economy February 15-17
http://developer.intel.com/design/idf/spr2000/tracks/act/ses…

Microstrategy`s Telecaster uses Fonix AcuView Text-To-Speech

TechWeb Article September 6, 99
http://www.iweek.com/751/telecast.htm

"Telecaster uses text-to-speech technology from Fonix Corp. to present the information to end users over the telephone"

Telecaster Dsecription
http://www.microstrategy.com/Products/telecaster/index.htm


Phone.com using Fonix AcuView also

Phone.com buys @motion for $285 Million *Dec 21, 99*
http://www.atmotion-inc.com/press0064.htm

@Motion Inc. announced its strategy to provide a platform for an "Internet voice portal server" using speech recognition from Nuance
Corporation, text-to-speech from Fonix *July 99*
http://www.tmaa.com/news73.htm

This was at @Motions main if not only product. Very similar to General Magic`s Portico service

Intel Invests $10 Million in @Motion July 7, 99
http://www.atmotion-inc.com/press006.htm

Intel shows up again!

Fonix and General Magic

Fonix Text-To-Speech Technology Used In General Magic`s New Mytalk Email Service
http://www.acuvoice.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/jul/pre…

Check out MyTalk, haven`t used it, but it looks very good
http://www.mytalk.com

General Magic also uses the Fonix AcuVoice speech synthesizer in its Portico voice-driven virtual assistant service
About Portico
http://www.genmagic.com/portico/portico_home.shtml

If you have RealPlayer 5.0 be sure to check out the demo of Portico It`s really cool
http://www.genmagic.com/portico/demo4new.ram

Portico-enabled Auto PC(Windows CE based) at CES
Easy Access to Internet-based Information While on the Road
http://www.genmagic.com/news/news_prrel990107.shtml

Notice Windows CE Implementation

Siemens/Infineon and Fonix

Recent devevelopments in Infineon SPACE Program/Fonix relationship
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

And here it becomes official the page is alive on the SPACETools page, here`s the link
http://www.spacetools.com/tools3/space/397.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.spacetools.com/tools3/space/397.htm

About Infineon SPACE program
http://www.spacetools.com/

Siemens and fonix Initiate Strategic Technology Alliance *Nov 17, 97*
http://www.infineon.com/us/pr/archive/11_17_97.html

"The combination of fonix core technologies and the strengths of Infineon Technologies AGs serve as the basis for setting worldwide
standards in the fields of speech recognition, compression and speaker identification," said Juergen Bruess, vice president, strategy,
Infineon Technologies AGs."

Fonix Corporation Demonstrates Interactive Speech Technology on the Siemens TriCore Microcontroller/DSP Architecture *March 3, 99*
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/mar/press030399.htm

Fonix & Infineon(=Siemens)Navigational Systems:

Fonix and Infineon have completed a project for automobile navigational systems to be installed in luxury cars
http://www.infineon.com/solution/auto/driver.htm
http://www.infineon.com/solution/auto/auto1.htm


Casio and Siemens and Fonix?

Casio PDA(Windows CE) demonstrated w/Fonix ASR
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/oct/press102699a.htm

-Fonix ASR and TTS functionality on Casio and Hewlett Packard PDAs

HP PDA & Fonix Voice Recognition: link Fonix ASR and TTS functionality Hewlett Packard PDAs.
http://search.hp.com/redirect.html?url=http%3A//www.hp.com/j…

http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/oct/press102699a.htm

Casio and Siemens plan to jointly develop, manufacture and market a next-generation series of Windows CE-based devices (Palm-size
PC`s) with multimedia, wireless Internet and mobile phone capabilities.
http://www.siemens.com/infobank/presseinfo/1999/icpcd1999120…

At CeBIT 2000 (Feb 24 to March1) able to see the first prototype resulting from the partnership (Siemens) with Casio
http://www.siemens.com/infobank/presseinfo/2000/icn20000147e…

Scott paraphrases ASRNews article stating Voice Activated Dialing is `The Killer App`
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

Lucent and Fonix Allegro Handwriting Recognition

Lucent licenses Allegro handwriting recognition for inclusion with it`s Inferno OS for embedded applications
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/feb/press020299.htm

Rocket eBook uses Allegro Handwriting Recognition

Fonix Licenses Allegro Product to NuvoMedia
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/nov/press112399.htm

Rocket eBook for sale on Barnes and Noble`s web site
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/subjects/ebooks/ebooks.asp?

Also saw this on Rocket`s web site:
"Due to popular demand we are temporarly out of stock of the Rocket eBook Pro"

Exploding Demand for FONX Technologies

Article that talks about exploding demand for hands-free in mobile communications devices
http://www.electronicengineering.com/content/news/article.as…

"Hands-free is quickly becoming the most popular wireless phone accessory, eclipsed today only by carrying cases and extra batteries,"
said Phillip Redman, associate director of wireless/mobile communications. "As more data-oriented applications emerge augmented by
more accurate speech recognition systems on wireless networks, using phones hands-free will become critical and provide subscribers a
greater ease of use and added safety"."

[Carnardo]

Prima, vielleicht wird LHSP dann bald von FONX übernommen. ;-))
Aber mal im Ernst:
Ich bin sicher FONX findet seine Nische in diesem Riesenmarkt, nur vergleichen kann man diese beiden Werte nicht.
LHSP ist keine Aktie, die urplötzlich entdeckt wird, LHSP hat während der letzten beiden Jahre alles aufgekauft, was irgendwie ins Konzept passte. Und ist zudem Allianzen mit dem ganz großen eingegangen, von Microsoft über Intel über diverse Mobilfunkunternehmen.
Der Bereich Spracherkennung am Desktop steht in der Hierarchie ganz hinten. Vorrangig ist Mobilfunktechnologie, künstliche Intelligenz, Internetübersetzung (Fernost!!) und Navigation, industrieller Einsatz von Spracheingabe. Die kürzliche Übernahme von Dictaphone Corp. paßt da ideal ins Konzept, hier werden die ersten Gewinne generiert. Was noch alles in den Geheimlabors vor sich hinköchelt ist noch gar nicht abzuschätzen.
Und wenn jetzt bald das neue Schlagwort "Speech-Technologie" die Runde machen wird, wird als Marktführer immer von LHSP die Rede sein.
Ich schätze in 1-2 Jahren wird LHSP die Telekom der Belgier sein.

Wer Aktien hält, sollte sein Depot absperren und jemand engagieren, der ihm sofort auf die Finger klopft, sobald man schwach wird und ans realisieren denkt!

LHSP ist der neue Reichmacher!

[Short]

Bin Deiner Meinung,

bin schon einige Jahre drin, mit großen Gewinnen, die werde ich aber noch mindestens 5 Jahre laufen lassen. Denn bei genauem Nachdenken kann man erkennen wo Spracherkennung und Übersetztungstechnologie eingesetzt werden kann. ( Beispiele: Simultanüberstzung mit Protokollierung , KFZ Bedienung, Zugangssystememe, Ferbedienung,
Handy, SMS, Palm`s usw...)

Short

[KiKo]

ethues: "Etwas" zviel des Guten, wo der Thread doch zu L&H gehört. Informiere mich trotzdem gerne.

Yours digitally
KiKo

[Matrox]

Danke KiKo

tolle research arbeit, ist wieder ein indiz dafür das wir mit unseren ucl + ikey gedanken richtig liegen !

Matrox

[ethues]

* **FONX DD LIBRARY * **

Company Web Site (recently updated 2/28/2000)
http://www.fonix.com/

Recent Andrea News

After listening to this interview, I started thinking this may be a better alliance than I originally thought
http://www.radiowallstreet.com/companypage.cfm?CompanyID=271…

Andreas PRs
http://quicken.excite.com/investments/news/story/pr/?story=/…
http://quicken.excite.com/investments/news/story/djbn/?story…

Great article about Voice Recognition
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=…

Upcoming Events
*Feb 15-17* Intel Developer Forum Designing Solutions for the Internet Economy
Speech and Handwriting Recognition on StrongARM
http://developer.intel.com/design/idf/spr2000/tracks/act/ses…

Fall `99 Intel Developer Forum drew more than 3,000 people and triggered over 800 press articles, and the Spring 2000 edition is expected to be even bigger.

*Feb 24-Mar 1* CeBIT 2000 able see first prototype resulting from the partnership (Siemens) with Casio based on Windows CE
http://www.siemens.com/infobank/presseinfo/2000/icn20000147e…

*Feb 28-March 2* Embedded Systems Conference, Chicago
http://embedded.com/frameindex.htm?spring/index.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/embedded/etp/etpartners.asp

*March 7-9* Computer Telephony Expo
http://www.ctexpo.com/


Recent Informative Posts by FONX Longs

Quarterly Earnings Report Coming Soon
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

Outstanding shares after the recent SEC S-2/A
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

New Marketing Startegy
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

Fonix Plans to Generate Revenues From Latest SEC 10-Q
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

"1. Specific focus on markets where current revenues can be realized through a market
driven approach and away from markets focusing on continued research and development."

High-Quality TTS
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…


re-Listsing on NASDAQ

Appeal of delisting pending??? (anyone care to call Michelle and confirm?)
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

You can check out the NASDAQ listing requirements on the NASDAQ page
http://www.nasdaq.com/about/listing.stm

Excite@Home Connection

Excite@Home from GeneralMagic`s SEC 10-Q
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

In June 1999, Excite@Home launched the Excite Voicemail service, a free, advertising-supported service that allows Excite users to receive voicemail and faxes in their Excite email accounts. Excite Voicemail uses our magicTalk voice user interface to guide callers in leaving voicemail messages and faxes for registered Excite members. We host the service in our Sunnyvale, California network operations center. Special telephone lines have been installed to connect the Excite@Home operations center with our network operations center, allowing voicemail and faxes to appear in the Excite member`s mailbox.

Microsoft Relationship

Fonix Demonstrates Embedded and Internet Speech Technology at SpeechTEK `99 *Oct 19, 99*
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/oct/press101999.htm

"We partnered with Fonix because they`re a leader in the category of speaker-independent speech recognition and dynamic text-to-speech
capabilities," said Randy Kath, Director of Windows CE Tools at Microsoft

Microsoft Names Fonix as a Charter Member Of Its Embedded Tools Partner Program *Oct 26, 99*
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/oct/press102699a.htm

Clip from a local Utah Newspaper *Oct 27, 1999*
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

Charlie Peterson, the program manager for the embedded tools partnership program, said Microsoft did screen the companies. Its selection
of Fonix can be considered an endorsement of its programs, he said.

Portico-enabled Auto PC(Windows CE based) at CES
Easy Access to Internet-based Information While on the Road
http://www.genmagic.com/news/news_prrel990107.shtml

Intel Connection

Fonix Corporation Demonstrates Its Core Technologies At Embedded Systems Conference *Sept 29, 99*
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/sep/press092999.htm

Fonix will demonstrate its technologies running on the Intel StrongARM SA-1100 evaluation board
"This is not experimental technology, it is available today"

Presenting at the Intel Developer Forum
Designing Solutions for the Internet Economy February 15-17
http://developer.intel.com/design/idf/spr2000/tracks/act/ses…

Microstrategy`s Telecaster uses Fonix AcuView Text-To-Speech

TechWeb Article September 6, 99
http://www.iweek.com/751/telecast.htm

"Telecaster uses text-to-speech technology from Fonix Corp. to present the information to end users over the telephone"

Telecaster Dsecription
http://www.microstrategy.com/Products/telecaster/index.htm


Phone.com using Fonix AcuView also

Phone.com buys @motion for $285 Million *Dec 21, 99*
http://www.atmotion-inc.com/press0064.htm

@Motion Inc. announced its strategy to provide a platform for an "Internet voice portal server" using speech recognition from Nuance
Corporation, text-to-speech from Fonix *July 99*
http://www.tmaa.com/news73.htm

This was at @Motions main if not only product. Very similar to General Magic`s Portico service

Intel Invests $10 Million in @Motion July 7, 99
http://www.atmotion-inc.com/press006.htm

Intel shows up again!

Fonix and General Magic

Fonix Text-To-Speech Technology Used In General Magic`s New Mytalk Email Service
http://www.acuvoice.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/jul/pre…

Check out MyTalk, haven`t used it, but it looks very good
http://www.mytalk.com

General Magic also uses the Fonix AcuVoice speech synthesizer in its Portico voice-driven virtual assistant service
About Portico
http://www.genmagic.com/portico/portico_home.shtml

If you have RealPlayer 5.0 be sure to check out the demo of Portico It`s really cool
http://www.genmagic.com/portico/demo4new.ram

Portico-enabled Auto PC(Windows CE based) at CES
Easy Access to Internet-based Information While on the Road
http://www.genmagic.com/news/news_prrel990107.shtml

Notice Windows CE Implementation

Siemens/Infineon and Fonix

Recent devevelopments in Infineon SPACE Program/Fonix relationship
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

And here it becomes official the page is alive on the SPACETools page, here`s the link
http://www.spacetools.com/tools3/space/397.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.spacetools.com/tools3/space/397.htm

About Infineon SPACE program
http://www.spacetools.com/

Siemens and fonix Initiate Strategic Technology Alliance *Nov 17, 97*
http://www.infineon.com/us/pr/archive/11_17_97.html

"The combination of fonix core technologies and the strengths of Infineon Technologies AGs serve as the basis for setting worldwide
standards in the fields of speech recognition, compression and speaker identification," said Juergen Bruess, vice president, strategy,
Infineon Technologies AGs."

Fonix Corporation Demonstrates Interactive Speech Technology on the Siemens TriCore Microcontroller/DSP Architecture *March 3, 99*
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/mar/press030399.htm

Fonix & Infineon(=Siemens)Navigational Systems:

Fonix and Infineon have completed a project for automobile navigational systems to be installed in luxury cars
http://www.infineon.com/solution/auto/driver.htm
http://www.infineon.com/solution/auto/auto1.htm


Casio and Siemens and Fonix?

Casio PDA(Windows CE) demonstrated w/Fonix ASR
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/oct/press102699a.htm

-Fonix ASR and TTS functionality on Casio and Hewlett Packard PDAs

HP PDA & Fonix Voice Recognition: link Fonix ASR and TTS functionality Hewlett Packard PDAs.
http://search.hp.com/redirect.html?url=http%3A//www.hp.com/j…

http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/oct/press102699a.htm

Casio and Siemens plan to jointly develop, manufacture and market a next-generation series of Windows CE-based devices (Palm-size
PC`s) with multimedia, wireless Internet and mobile phone capabilities.
http://www.siemens.com/infobank/presseinfo/1999/icpcd1999120…

At CeBIT 2000 (Feb 24 to March1) able to see the first prototype resulting from the partnership (Siemens) with Casio
http://www.siemens.com/infobank/presseinfo/2000/icn20000147e…

Scott paraphrases ASRNews article stating Voice Activated Dialing is `The Killer App`
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=…

Lucent and Fonix Allegro Handwriting Recognition

Lucent licenses Allegro handwriting recognition for inclusion with it`s Inferno OS for embedded applications
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/feb/press020299.htm

Rocket eBook uses Allegro Handwriting Recognition

Fonix Licenses Allegro Product to NuvoMedia
http://www.fonix.com/fonixnews/pressreleases/1999/nov/press112399.htm

Rocket eBook for sale on Barnes and Noble`s web site
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/subjects/ebooks/ebooks.asp?

Also saw this on Rocket`s web site:
"Due to popular demand we are temporarly out of stock of the Rocket eBook Pro"

Exploding Demand for FONX Technologies

Article that talks about exploding demand for hands-free in mobile communications devices
http://www.electronicengineering.com/content/news/article.as…

"Hands-free is quickly becoming the most popular wireless phone accessory, eclipsed today only by carrying cases and extra batteries,"
said Phillip Redman, associate director of wireless/mobile communications. "As more data-oriented applications emerge augmented by
more accurate speech recognition systems on wireless networks, using phones hands-free will become critical and provide subscribers a
greater ease of use and added safety"."

[YO_MAN]

hallo ethues,
was soll das? KiKo hat tolle arbeit geleistet und L&H ist eine Superaktie. Eine kurze Info hätte genügt, deine unerwünschte Datenflut nervt und konterkarriert diesen Thread. Also lasses bitte!

[nurkeinstress]

ethues, Du hast Glück. Wenn die Fonxies das Raging- oder Yahoo-Board vollmüllen werden sie GANZ ANDERS behandelt...
Eröffne doch einen FONXIE-THREAD - nobody want`s to know it!!

[GOTOX]

ethues

vergleiche nicht fonx mit lhsp wenn du die letzten zahlen anschaust miserabel sind aus der nasdaq raus und nur noch im otc. es gab ne menge schwierigkeiten und seit etlichen quartalen keine merklichen umsätze. siehe auch langfristchart. lhsp ist eine ganz andere klasse.

gotox

[Short]

!

Dieser Beitrag wurde vom System automatisch gesperrt. Bei Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an [e-mail]

[Milkman]

So, nun entscheidet selbst, welcher Chart ist auf Sicht der letzten 3 Jahre besser ausgebildet? Fonix oder Lernout ??

[Milkman]

[YO_MAN]

dank milkman,
das schafft klarheit. denke wir haben jetzt unsere ruhe. habe mir mal die watchlist unseres "freundes" angesehen. dort findet man die erklärung für seine profilneurose.
viel freude noch an lhsp

[KiKo]

Ich denke an Käufe, wenn sie die 130 durchbrechen. Im Moment liegt mein Geld im Neuen Markt und in anderen US-Werten noch ganz gut.

Yours digitally
KiKo

[thefarmer]

Bio-Tech boomt!!!!

Der Sommer, erst recht der Herbst könnte wieder heiß werden!!!!


Werft einen Blick in den Thread Merck und ihr werdet eine substanzstarke
Bio-Tech-Perle aus dem M-Dax finden, die bald 4 % Dividende ausschüttet.

Mit ein wenig Substanz aus anderen Branchen kann man Schwankungen bei
Werten wie LHSP viel ruhiger ausstehten! Denn wenn sich der Nasdaq mal
nach unten bewegt, könnten die Shortis versucht sein, auch hier mal ein
paar Wiederstandslinien nach unten zu testen!!

mfg
thefarmer

[Carnardo]

Hi Farmer

Als Mann der ersten Stunde müsstest Du es eigentlich besser wissen.
Rückschläge gehören zum Geschäft. Den Chart steil nach oben ab Kauf gibt´s einfach nicht.

L+H wird im Moment zum Markennamen, die aktuellen Kursausschläge dürften in einigen Jahren gar nicht mehr zu erkennen sein.

Lucent als Basistechnologieausrüster hat L+H integriert (Aktuelle BO, Lucent-Artikel, Kommentar vom Vorstand: Die Zukunft ist Sprachtechnologie),

immer mehr Fonds decken sich ein (http://biz.yahoo.com/wi/000309/5855.html, wer zu faul zum Lesen ist:
Immens wachsender Fond mit Motorola, Ericson, Nokia .. und L+H als dramat. wachsendes Element).....

..Und SHORTS dienen eigentlich nur noch als zusätzliche Einnahmequelle!!!


Wer jetzt einsteigt, sollte damit rechnen, daß man versuchen wird, seine Aktien billig zu bekommen, am besten ein Zeitziel statt ein Kursziel setzen!!!!


Hier noch ein Wort zu unseren FONX-Pushern:

L+H machte in gleicher Zeit über 500% Gewinn, inder FONX von 10$ auf 25C abgerauscht ist. Die aktuelle Erholung freut mich für FONX-Longs, aber der Vergleich dieses Pennystocks mit L+H ist einfach lächerlich.
Wieso macht Ihr eigentlich kein eigenes Board auf und müllt uns zu??
Wahrscheinlich, weil ihr sonst als einzige Eure Beiträge lesen würdet!



Wer die genaue FONX-Entwicklung wissen will, kann´s unten im Link nachlesen.
http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=t&type=r&board=4687489&…

[lenny007]

Hi,
Carnardo hat recht. Es geht hier um L&H, die künftige Cisco der
Sprachtechnologie und nicht um diesen lächerlichen Pennystock.

Die Übernahme von Dictaphone wurde von den Analysten positiv aufge-
nommen.

Die Japan-News soll nun kurz vor Veröffentlichung stehen und alles
Bisherige in den Schatten stellen.

Anfang April nimmt Ananova ihren Dienst auf. (www.ananova.com)

Weitere Deals mit Mobilfunkbetreibern sind zu erwarten, Splitt
steht an.

Für L&H Realspeak werden laufend neue Abschlüsse gemeldet.
Die Geschäfte laufen blendend, die Q1 Zahlen sollen sehr gut werden.

Gestern zum Schluß reger Handel und ein sattes Plus.

Die Reise geht weiter.

Gruß

[lenny007]

Hi,
belgischer Börsendienst sieht L&H bei 200US$.

Link: http://www.analist.be/artikels.mv?115

Gruß

[Carnardo]

L+H wird in Belgien immer populärer. Über eine Aufnahme in Bel20Index wird heftig spekuliert. Die neue Volksaktie der Belgier??

Ansonsten noch ein paar Anregungen:

Let`s see what news we`re still waiting for ?

- Deutsche Telekom (confirmed at CEBIT by LHSP)
- France Telecom (confirmed at CEBIT by LHSP)
- Important Japanese Contract (strong rumour)
- Yahoo (confirmed at CEBIT by LHSP)
- Actual split end of april
- Results 1Q 2000 end of april - beginning of may
- Beta version Microsoft Office 10 in may-june
- 3 Spinoffs before the end of the year
- Intel-LHSP deal end of year first products
- NAK - end of year first products
- and the others I forgot or didn`t know about

Kursziel von 200 scheint sehr konservativ, auch wenn´s vorher eine Korrektur der HighTecs geben sollte!

[KiKo]

Hier eine von mir angeforderte Technische Analyse (10.3.00),
positiv gefällt mir insbesondere RT, VST und GRT, aber lest selbst:
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Stock Analysis of Lernout & Haus


Thank you for requesting an analysis of Lernout & Haus from VectorVest ProGraphics. The ticker symbol for Lernout & Haus is LHSP. LHSP is traded on the NASDAQ and options are available on this stock.

PRICE: LHSP closed on 03/10/2000 at $119.94 per share.

VALUE: LHSP has a Value of $22.9 per share. Value is the foundation of the VectorVest system. It is a measure of what a stock is currently worth. Value is based upon earnings, earnings growth rate, dividend payments, dividend growth rate, and financial performance. Current interest and inflation rates also play an important role in the computation of Value. When interest and/or inflation rates decrease, Value goes up. When interest rates and inflation increase, Value goes down. Sooner or later a stock`s Price and Value always converge.

RV (Relative Value): LHSP has an RV of 0.41. On a scale of 0.00 to 2.00, an RV of 0.41 is very poor. RV reflects the long-term price appreciation potential of the stock compared to an alternative investment in AAA Corporate Bonds. Stocks with RV ratings above 1.00 have attractive upside potential. A stock will have an RV greater than 1.00 when its Value is greater than Price, and its Relative Safety (see below) and forecasted earnings growth rate are above average. In some cases, however, a stock`s RV will be above 1.00 even though its Value is well below Price. This happens when a stock has an exemplary record of financial performance and an above average earnings growth rate. In this case, the stock is currently selling at a premium, and the investor is banking on future earnings growth to drive the stock`s price higher. This information is very useful not only in knowing whether or not a stock has favorable price appreciation potential, but it also solves the riddle of whether to buy high growth, high P/E, or low growth, low P/E stocks.

We believe that RV ratings above 1.00 are required to consistently achieve above average capital gains in the stock market.

RS (Relative Safety): LHSP has an RS rating of 0.61. On a scale of 0.00 to 2.00, an RS of 0.61 is poor. VectorVest looks at safety from the viewpoint of an equity investor (one who is buying stock of a company) rather than that of a purchaser of debt (one who is lending money to the company). From this perspective, consistency of financial and operating performance, stock price appreciation history, and price volatility are the key factors used in the evaluation of Relative Safety (RS). Debt to equity ratio, capitalization, sales volume, business longevity and other factors are also considered, but to a lesser degree.

VectorVest favors steady, predictable performers. All stocks are rated on a scale of 0.00 to 2.00. A stock with an RS greater than 1.00 is safer and more predictable than the average of all stocks. A stock with an RS less than 1.00 is less predictable and riskier than the average stock.

RT (Relative Timing): LHSP has an RT rating of 1.83. On a scale of 0.00 to 2.00, an RT of 1.83 is excellent. RT is a fast, responsive, short-term price trend indicator. It analyzes the direction, magnitude, and dynamics of a stock`s price behavior over the last 13 weeks; then reflects and projects the short-term price performance of the stock. Once a stock`s Price has established a strong trend, it is expected to continue that trend for the short-term. If the trend dissipates, RT will gravitate towards 1.00. Should the price change dramatically, RT will notice the crucial turning point. When warranted, it will explode from a Price low and dive from a Price high.

All stocks are rated on a scale of 0.00 to 2.00. If RT is above 1.00,the stock`s Price is in an uptrend. Below 1.00, the stock`s Price is in a downtrend.

VST-Vector (VST): LHSP has a VST-Vector rating of 1.21. On a scale of 0.00 to 2.00, an VST of 1.21 is very good. VST-Vector solves the dilemma of balancing Value, Safety and Timing. Stocks with high RV values often have low RS values, or stocks withlow RV and RS values have high RT`s. How can we find the stocks with the best combinations of Value, Safety, and Timing?

The classic vector formula (square root of the sum of the squares) handles this problem. It combines a set of forces into a single indicator for ranking every stock in the VectorVest database. Stocks with the highest VST-Vector have the best combinations of Value, Safety and Timing. These are the ones to own for above average capital application.

GRT (Growth Rate): LHSP has a GRT of 17 % per year. This is very good. GRT stands for forecasted Earnings Growth Rate in percent per year. GRT is updated each week for every stock. Watch GRT trends very carefully. If the GRT trend is up, the stock`s Price will likely rise. If the GRT trend is down, the stock`s Price will increase more slowly, cease to increase, or subsequently fall.

Recommendation (REC): LHSP has a Buy recommendation. REC reflects the cumulative effect of all the VectorVest parameters working together. These parameters are designed to help investors buy safe, undervalued stocks which are rising in price, and to avoid or sell risky, overvalued stocks which are falling in price.

VectorVest is tuned to give an "H" or "B" signal when a stock`s price is approximately 10% above a recent low, and an "S" signal when the stock`s price is approximately 10% below a recent high. High RV, RS stocks are favored toward receiving "B" REC`s, and sheltered from receiving "S" RECs.

STOP-PRICE: LHSP has a Stop-Price of 70.80 per share. This is 49.14 or 41.0% belowits current closing Price. VectorVest analyzes over 6,000 stocks each day for Value, Safety and Timing, and calculates a Stop-Price for each stock. These Stop-Prices are based upon 13 week moving averages of closing prices, and are fine-tuned according to each stock`s fundamentals.

In the VectorVest system, a stock gets a "B" or an "H" recommendation if its price is above its Stop-Price, and an "S" recommendation if its price is below its Stop-Price.

DIV (Dividend): LHSP does not pay a dividend. VectorVest focuses on annual, regular, cash dividends indicated by the most recent disbursement. Special distributions, one-time payments, stock dividends, etc., generally are not included in Dividend (DIV).

DY (Dividend Yield): LHSP has a DY of 0 percent. This is above the current market average of percent. DY equals 100 x (DIV/PRICE), and is expressed as a percentage.

EY (Earnings Yield): LHSP has an EY of 1.31%. This is above the current market average of %. EY equals 100 x (EARNINGS PER SHARE/PRICE), and is expressed as a percentage.

EPS (Earnings Per Share): LHSP has an EPS of $1.57 per share. EPS stands for leading 12 months Earnings Per Share. VectorVest determines this forecast from a combination of recent earnings performance and traditional fiscal and/or calendar year earnings forecasts.

P/E (Price to Earnings Ratio): LHSP has a P/E ratio of 76.39. This ratio is computed daily based upon Price and EPS. P/E = Price/EPS.

GPE (Growth to P/E Ratio): LHSP has a GPE of 0.22. This ratio suggests that This ratio suggests that LHSPis overvalued. Growth to P/E ratio is a popular measure of stock valuation which compares Earnings Growth Rate (GRT) to Price Earnings ratio (P/E). A stock is considered to be undervalued when GPE is greater than 1.00, and vice-versa. VectorVest believes that RV is a much better indicator of long-term value. The RV of 0.41 for LHSPis very poor.

DS (Dividend Safety): LHSP has a DS of 0. On a scale of 0 to 99, a DS of 0 is poor. DS is defined as the assurance that regular cash dividends will be declared and paid at current or at higher rates for the foreseeable future. Stocks with DS values above 50 on a scale of 0 to 99 areabove average in safety.

RISK (Dividend Risk): LHSP does not pay a dividend. All stocks in the VectorVest system that pay dividends are classified as having Low, Medium or High Dividend Risk (RISK). Stocks with DS values above 50 are above average in safety. These stocks are classified as having LOW or MEDIUM RISK. Stocks with DS values below 50 are below average in safety and are classified as having HIGH Risk.

DG (Dividend Growth): LHSP has a DG of 0 percent per year. Dividend Growth is a subtle yet important indicator of a company`s historical financial performance and the board`s current outlook on the future use of funds.

YSG-VECTOR (Yield-Safety-Growth Vector): LHSP has a YSG-Vector of 0. On a scale of 0.00 to 2.00, an YSG-Vector rating of 0 is very poor. VectorVest combines Dividend YIELD, SAFETY and GROWTH into a single parameter. YSG-Vector allows direct comparison of all dividend paying stocks. Stocks with the highest YSG-Vector values have the best combinations of Dividend Yield, Safety and Growth. These are the stocks to buy for above average current income and long-term growth.

VOL(100)s: LHSP traded 795900 shares on 03/10/2000.

AVG VOL(100)s: LHSP has an Average Volume of 1023300. Average Volume is 50 day moving average of daily volume as computed by VectorVest.

% VOL: LHSP had a Volume change of -22.2% from its 50 day moving average volume.

OPEN: LHSP opened trading at $114.25 per share on 03/10/2000.

HIGH: LHSP traded at a high of $120.00 per share on 03/10/2000.

LOW: LHSP traded at a low of $113.88 per share on 03/10/2000.

CLOSE: LHSP Closed trading at $119.94 per share on 03/10/2000.

% PRC: LHSP showed a Price change of 5.3% from the prior day`s closing price.

INDUSTRY: LHSPhas been assigned to the Software (Business) Group. VectorVest classifies stocks into over 190 Industry Groups and 50 Business Sectors.

LHSP has well below average safety with well below average upside potential. It reflects a stock which is likely to give well below average, inconsistent returns over the long term.

The basic strategy of VectorVest is to buy low risk, high reward stocks. We suggest that Prudent investors buy enough high Relative Value, high Relative Safety stocks to keep the overall RV and RS ratings of their portfolios above 1.00. As you do this, you`ll find that your risk will go down and your investment performance will improve. Not a bad combination.

Thank you for your interest in VectorVest ProGraphics
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Yours digitally "alles noch uneigennützig"
KiKo

[Carnardo]

Tolle Recherche !

LHSP wird laufen, ich denke wir sitzen auf einem Gorilla (über 2 Jahre gewartet, und jetzt gehts langsam los.

Übrigens macht es sehr viel Sinn, daß auch Intel und Nat. Semiconductor in LHSP investiert sind:
Der Motor des aktuellen Börsenbooms ist die HighTecRevolution durch die PC-Industrie. Im Moment tritt allerdings eine gewisse Sättigung auf, ob 300 oder 600Mhz, alles läuft ganz ordentlich.
Was liegt näher, als durch revolutionäre Anwendungen neuen Speicher und Chipgeschwindigkeitsbedarf zu erzeugen.
Soll heißen, eine ganze Boom-Branche wartet händeringend auf diese Produkte, und wir sitzen auf dem Marktführer.

Selbes gilt für die Mobilfunktechnologie. In der aktuellen BO wird über LUCENT berichtet, und das Fazit lautet, alle zukünftigen Anwendungen werden über Sprachsteuerung laufen. Und genau aus diesem Grund hat Lucent sich für L+H als "Quasi-Standart" entschieden.

Ich denke, die kommenden Wochen werden gigantisch!!!

[Milkman]

Sieht der Chart nicht gerade gut genug für eine kleine Wimpelformation aus, die nur darauf wartet, nach oben auszubrechen??
Morgen kaufen und dann mal schauen, in drei, vier Wochen steht LHSP bestimmt bei 140 ... 155 $


Gruß Milkman

[thefarmer]

Ich habe keine Angst vor Rückschlägen,

denn man kann sich bei LHSP leicht ausrechnen, daß diese in einigen Jahren
mit 50 später sogar mit 100 Milliarden Dollar kapitalisiert sein könnte.

Die Idee mit dem Zeit-Ziel von weiter oben, ich kann mir Namen immer so
schwer merken - ein PC mit Sprachtechnologie wäre wirklich gut, ist vernünftig,

allerdings sollte man sein Zeit-Ziel nicht in Monaten sondern in Jahren, besser
noch Jahrzehnten berechnen; denn die babylonische Sprachvielfalt der Erde wird
um so besser zur Geltung kommen, je mehr Völker Anschluß an den Welthandel finden!

Läuft China noch ein zwei Jahrzehnte weiterhin so gut, wird dies unweigerlich
Afrika mit seinen 100erten Stammessprachen weit, weit nach oben ziehen!

Da LHSP den Anschein macht, der Gorilla zu sein, der Fusionswellen am ehesten
überlebt, könnte eine LHSP in sagen wir mal 20 Jahren auch mit einer Billion
Dollar kapitalisiert sein; tägliche Einnahmen pro Erdenbürger im Durchschnitt
sagen wir mal 1 DM für ein paar neugierige Klicks im fremdsprachigen Internet. Bei bis
dahin 8 Milliarden Erdenbürgern macht das 365 mal 8.000.000.000. Das ist
eine Zahl grßer als der Display meines Taschenrechners! Aber da es auch Konkurrenz-
unternehmen geben wird und ferner Ausgaben anfallen wäre ein Umsatz von 100 Milliarden
mit Übersetzungsaufgaben schon recht ordentlich. Bei einer Marge von 33 %, einmal
erstellte Software verursacht kaum mehr Folgekosten, könnte der Gewinn als 33 Mrd.
betragen, was bei einm KGV von 30 eine Billion an Börsenkapitalisierung ausmacht.

Dabei habe ich dann noch nicht berücksichtigt, daß es ja weltweit tausende von
Fernsehsendern in hunderten von Sprachen gibt!

Also: Langfristig no Problem!

Was zu beweisen war!


Das sollte aber noch immer keinen LHSP-ler daran hindern, mal einen
Blick in den Thread Merck zu werfen. Denn da gibt es einen Bio-Tech-Fonds
mit 4 % Divendenrendite, mit kurz vor der Einführung stehenden Blockbustern
etc. etc. zu einem Spottpreis. Würde jemand Merck (KGaA = M-Dax) aufkaufen
und ausschlachten, könnte er die 6 - 10-fache derzeitige Börsenkapitaliserung
erzielen!!!!) Über solche Empfhelungen sollte man sich freuen. Ich bin
immer dankbar wenn mir jemand Anregungen gibt. Man kann bei weltweit mehreren
100.000 Aktiengesellschaften einfach nicht mehr alle guten Werte auf einmal
finden. Auf LHSP wurde ich beispielsweise durch Platow-Brief vor ca. einem
Jahr aufmerksam.

mfg
thefarmer

[Short]

Hi Thefarmer,

deinen Ausführungen zu L&H kann ich nur zustimmen ( bin schon 3Jahre drin ) . Merk find ich auch kaufenswert. Falls Du mal wieder gut investieren willst, schau Dir mal Symantec an . Super Antivirensoftware und noch günstig bewertet.

Gruß Short

[Short]

Welche Aktie kann da heute mithalten??????????????

Wieder ein Beweis für die Stärke von L&H.


LERNOUT HAUSPIE (NasdaqNM:LHSP) - More Info: News , Msgs , Profile , Research , Insider
Last Trade
1:57PM · 125 7/16 Change
+5 1/2 (+4.59%) Prev Cls
119 15/16 Volume
812,100 Div Date
Apr 28
Small: [ 1d | 5d | 1y | none ]
Big: [ 1d | 5d | 3m | 1y | 2y | 5y ]
Day`s Range
114 7/8 - 125 7/16 Bid
125 Ask
125 1/16 Open
116 Avg Vol
919,681 Ex-Div
N/A
52-week Range
25 3/4 - 126 1/2 Earn/Shr
N/A P/E
N/A Mkt Cap
6.820B Div/Shr
N/A

[Carnardo]

Artikel aus Forbes:

http://www.forbes.com/tool/html/00/feb/0228/feat.htm

Tolle Sache! VoiceTechnologie findet allmählich Zugang in die breite Berichterstattung und wie man heute gesehen hat auch in den Geldadel (soll heißen Institutionelle Anleger)!
Könnten einige schöne Wochen werden, für die, die bereits investiert sind.
Vielleicht gibt´s ja auch noch eine 2 vor den ersten 2 Nullen vor dem Split??

Bin ja auch echt mal gespannt, ob "HighTecAktienspezialist" Paarhufernase Förtsch in seinem Blatt mal einen 2. oder 3. Stern vergibt (hatte sie ja mal empfohlen, hat sich aber dann irgendwann ausgestoppt und jetzt erst sehr spät wiederentdeckt), aber wahrscheinlich hat er sich noch nicht eingedeckt und wartet händeringend auf eine Möglichkeit.. :-)

[Milkman]

..... Die Gelegenheit sollte er jetzt beim Schopfe packen, denn die alte Regel greift mal wieder:

Die NASDAQ hüstelt ... und Lernout steigt gegen den Trend.

Also Leute greift zu, in wenigen Wochen sehen wir die 150$-Marke !!!

Gruß Milkman

[KiKo]

Es ist soweit:
130 durchbrochen wegen Deal mit AOL. Wenn USA positiv eröffnet, bin ich auch an Bord. Ging ja schneller als gedacht.
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Lernout & Hauspie Announces Licensing Agreement With America Online;

Agreement to Cover Variety of L&H Information and Knowledge Management Tools
Business Wire - March 13, 2000 17:15

IEPER, Belgium and BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 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(TM) 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(R) Language Recognizer, a tool that identifies more than 40 languages and codes, including HTML and XML formats; IntelliScope(R) Search Enhancer, an information retrieval tool that performs a morphological analysis to provide additional depth and breadth to searches; CorrectEnglish(TM), a tool that corrects errors commonly made by speakers of other languages when they write in English; and International ProofReader(TM), 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.

This Press Release contains forward-looking information that involves risks and uncertainties, including statements about the company`s plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. Such statements include, without limitation, that L&H`s products will work according to specifications and that such products will be successful in the market, and that its partnerships will be successful. Factors which could cause material differences to these forward looking statements include known and unknown risks, including without limitation: the uncertainty of new product development, including the risk that newly introduced products may contain undetected errors or defects or otherwise not perform as anticipated, the early stage of development of the speech and language technology markets, uncertainty of market growth, rapid technological change and intense competition, as well as other risks set forth in L&H`s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. L&H cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. L&H expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statements to reflect any change in the L&H`s expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstance on which any such statement is based.

All product names and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of L&H or their respective owners.


CONTACT: Lernout & Hauspie
Corporate Comm. US:
Audrey Pobre
[phone]
[e-mail]
or
Media Contact:
Michelle Doherty
[phone]
[e-mail]


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[KiKo]

Bin an Bord.
Hab Tagestiefstkurs in Frankfurt erwischt !
Jetzt in USA bei 133,25$.

Viel ERfolg.

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[Short]

Ich bin seit 30$ drin und schon lange steuerfrei. Denke aber das ich meine haltezeit noch auf ein paar Jahre ausdehne, denn was da noch abgehen wird macht uns reich.

Short

[Carnardo]

Hab Einstiegskurs von 26 Euro, bin seit ca 3 Jahren dabei und betrachte das aktuelle Geschehen als Startschuß (auf den ich lange gewartet habe).

Jede Wette, nach ein paar Auf und Ab wirds spätestens zum Jahresende den nächsten Split geben.
Bis zu den Zahlen und danach werden wir wohl noch die 200 sehen, irgendwann kommen dann sicher die Gewinnmitnahmen. Richtig Geld verdienen wird jedoch nur der, der investiert bleibt, weil er die Story kennt.

Meine Vision in 10 Jahren: Voice-Technologie als alltägliches Gut, von Sprachgesteuerten Maschinen über Games,Identifikation über Sprache (Sicherheitstechnologie), weltweite einfache Kommunikation über Übersetzungs-Engines und überall unsichtbar "L+H-inside".
Diese werden zu diesem Zeitpunkt längst Ihren Schwerpunkt auf dem Gebiet der Künstlichen Intelligenz gelegt haben und ein Patent nach dem anderen vermarkten (Flandern Valley, HighTec-Schmiede, und auf alles hat L+H das Erstverwertungsrecht).

Vergeßt die Vorsorge mit Aktienfonds, kauft monatlich LHSP für FIX-Betrag, ich wette, die Rendite schlägt in 10 Jahren jeden Fond.

[KiKo]

Bei dem Umfeld hält sich LHSP wunderbar.
Bin mal gespannt, ab wann die Threadbesuche zunehmen.
Kurs derzeit 123,5 $

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[edgar99]

Bin seit Anfang März (118,5 USD) in LHSP;
habe noch vor,nachzukaufen.
Grund: GRENZENLOSE PHANTASIE nach oben (selbst auf dem Raumschiff Enterprise wird Spacherkennung genutzt; realisierte science-fiction ist m.E. immer ein Zeichen für gewaltiges Potential).
Mit der derzeitigen Aktienkapitalisierung (ca. 6,5 mrd. USD) ist der Weltmarktführer in Spracherkennung und Übersetzungssoftware ein wahres Schnäppchen.
edgar99

[KiKo]

Was sehe ich da gerade? Der Grammatik-Checker bei Word 2000 stammt ... na klar, von L&H !
Zu finden unter "?" und dann "Info".

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[KiKo]

Kopiert, aber interessant:
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Hello Fools,
Warning this is a very long post!!
I suggest that LERNOUT and HAUSPIE SPEECHPRODUCTS ( LHSP) is a rule breaker
Following the rule breaker online seminar and reading a lot off post on LHSP; I took the initiative to go to the head-office off LHSP in Ieper Belgium and try to speak to one off the managers to get more information.
Ms. ELLEN SPOOREN : Senior vice-president of Marketing & Corporate communications was kind enough to receive me ( I had no appointment). I told her I was following the rule breaker online seminar of the Motley Fool; and asked her if she could help me with more information on the company. She told me I could contact her the following week.
I contacted the Motley Fool; Keith O`Malley, Nacohn and Bobkatcs and asked if they could help me prepare the interview. I hereby thank them (especially Nacohn ) very much.
The interview took place on Monday 20 march 2000:
I thank all the people at LHSP , especially Ms. Ellen Spooren and Ms. Annemieke Blondeel (Investor Relations Europe) to make this possible .
THE INTERVIEW:
* important emerging industry
- I think we agree on that. no need to pursue it
with her, although you could ask what FUTURE products
under development she thinks will have the biggest
impact.
Future products with big impact: there is no limit to the possible applications of L&H technologies, except for human inventiveness.
* Top dog
- I think we are fairly comfortable with this too,
but you could get her opinion on a couple competitors
and how they feel they stack up. Are the competitors a
threat? I have heard a lot about Dragon Systems, but they seem
to be much smaller financially than L&H.
Still, Dragon seemed to have much larger
sales growth recently: 1 year sales
growth 166% (1998?), LHSP 62.7% (1999).
No comment on Dragon at this moment.
Also,
www.hoovers.com listed major competitors to be
Berlitz, IBM and Lucent. Those are all huge compared
to L&H. The question I would pose to Ellen, is what
portion of those companies, perhaps which
subsidiaries, are really competitors to L&H`s
services.
Berlitz: only a competitor for translation, where they use mainly human translators. They do not have the type of innovative solution L&H has (iTranslator) for the whole market, nor the same capacities for other solutions, such as technical writing in several languages at once (instead of translating a text the client gives, L&H receives the necessary info and writes the technical document, such as a handbook or maintenance manual, in all required languages at once, using sofisticated multilingual software L&H has developped).
At this moment, the three largest translation companies in the world are L&H, Berlitz and Bowne (US Publisher). The revenues of all three are very similar, but L&H is building up revenue by offering easy access to translation of small documents through the Internet, which is something the other two do not do. Furthermore, translation and globalisation accounts for approx. 1/3 of L&H revenues, and is a core competency using core technology. It provides the R&D with the necessary large grammatically correct text corpora to continue making and improving speech and language technology components, thereby maintaining the advantage of L&H over other competitors, such as IBM or Lucent.
As to IBM and Lucent, speech technology accounts for only a very small part of their overall revenues, and is not seen as "core business". For IBM it is less than 1% of revenue.
How should we measure the size of the
financial threat and backing of these other companies
in comparison to LHSP?
The financial heavyweights cannot catch up with the L&H technology for a number of reasons:
- L&H has the largest "army" of speech and language technology specialists working for them (and there is a limited supply of these people), and the foundation created by Mr Hauspie and Mr Lernout is training even more of them with a view to having a continuous stream of employees for L&H in the pipeline.
- Money is not everything in this field, you also need resources that take time, such as accoustical databases. Currently L&H has a database of over 35000 man-years of accoustical data in many languages and many environments (face-to-face, in a car, over the telephone,...), which has taken many years to collect. They also have very large databases of text corpora in many languages, which is part of the reason why they acquired translation companies. Competitors would have to buy such resources, if that were possible. A good illlustration of this is that part of the relationship L&H has with Microsoft is a JV which collects accoustical data, using L&H technology for verifying and storing the data, for use by Microsoft`s own speech lab.
- Large (and small) competitors do not have all speech and language technologies. Philips, for instance, had to buy VCS in order to acquire text-to-speech, as they only had voice-recognition technology in a limited number of languages. IBM only operates in a few languages, etc L&H is the only company in the world that has Automatic Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech, Music and Voice Coding (=compression), and Translation technologies all under one roof, in upto 16 languages (and 20 more, such as Scandinavian languages, Malay, Farsi, Thai ...under development) and as its only business. Competitors usually have only one or two technologies, in a limited number of languages. L&H also has the vast majority (more than 90%) of all spell checkers and grammar checkers, and has innovative search and summarisation engines not only for text databases, but also for accoustical databases.
- L&H technologies are based on linguistics, as compared to for instance Autonomy, who have created a search and summarization engine based on mathematics/statistics.
Do any of those companies have
a chance of taking over L&H`s dominance considering
L&H has over 1100 linguists on board, etc?
No, we don`t think so, as L&H feels it is about two years ahead of the competition.
* Sustainable advantage gained through business
momentum, patents, visionary leadership, (inept
competition)
I think we can rule out inept competiton (I am sure
the others are not inept).
- Do their many OEM contracts have a long obligation
to them? Does this give a SUSTAINABLE advantage or is
that unpredictable?
Most of the OEM contracts are "recurrent", i.e. the clients come back for new contracts for upgrades or new and other technologies. L&H offers a big advantage to OEMs by being the only company with a full platform independent product offering (TTS, ASR, translation/localisation and compression) under one roof. For example, if a Japanese company wants to make a car-navigation system for the European market they could go and licenceASR and TTS (but not RealSpeak) for UK English from BT, Dutch from Philips, German from DASA etc, but they would then have to re-engineer all these to fit their own platform. L&H can deliver the whole lot, ready for the OEM`s platform, thereby allowing the OEM a quicker time to market for his product. What about patents? How many
patents do they have? L&H currently has 75 patents, with a number of patents pending, amongst others for the Nak, the small handheld device running on Linux, which allows you to use it as a telephone, access the Internet and do e-commerce, and as a PDA (such as Psion etc) with full dictation capabilities, all this without a keyboard and with voice controls and TTS feedback. L&H distributes a "patents book" about once a year to those financial analysts who ask for it. It contains one page on every patent L&H has.
Is that a significant barrier to
the competition or is the competition finding its own
way to do the same sort of things without patent
infringement? How many patents do the competition
have? There are many patents in Speech and Language technologies, but L&H is willing and able to complete their product offering by incorporating other technologies, in exceptional cases through licensing (such as the BBN/Hark engine, which L&H licensed from an outside supplier), or through acquistions, such as was the case with the Elan acquisition (Elan`s mid-level TTS engine perfectly complemented L&H`s high-end RealSpeak and its low-end TTS 3000). There is a news release about a recent patent:
http://www.lhsl.com/news/releases/19991221_patents.asp
- What does the Dictaphone acquisition do to their
business "momentum". Could it possibly bog down their
momentum? They are taking on almost 1 BILLION of
financial cost for that acquisition. Or will this
leverage their ability to increase their momentum?The Dictaphone acquisition gives L&H a dominating position in the US healthcare market, which is estimated by business analysts to be worth about $ 6 billion per year. By incorporating Dictaphone`s technology into L&H technology, L&H is now able to come up with a product offering for call centers which will not only allow for faster handling of incoming calls (through interactive dialog systems that can answer the incoming call, recognize the topic and putting the call through to the appropriate employee if necessary, or even handling calls), but also of digitally recording the calls for the purpose of quality control, and storing the recordings (also using compression) for future datamining with L&H search engines that can search on speaker name or topic of conversation. The call center market is very large, and still growing, and more demand is being created for systems that do not say "Please press 1 if you want A, 2 if you want B etc.....". Forrester and The Gartner Group have recently published research about the explosive growth in electronic banking and brokerage using WAP and voice access. (see attached).
Also, the Dictaphone acquisition is NOT about hardware. That part of the business will most likely be spun off.
.. * excellent past share appreciation.
no brainer here, their RS is 93% (and rising
according to the indicator arrow) - from
www.stocktables.com
* good management and smart backing.
- I think the smart backing is very clear!
Intel, Microsoft, etc...
- Also their debt to equity is nice and low (.08)
- management - they already have excellent bios on
the management team on their web page.
- however, perhaps if she can give more insight into
the personal nature and attitudes, desires of the
leaders. Where can we look to get that sort of
information? Try http://www.sail.com/index_invest.html, go to "events" and look at the video`s of the opening of Flanders language valley, which have Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie talking about their vision and ambitions, as well as some very interesting statements by people such as Craig Barret, CEO of Intel, and others.
Managements` vision is "Ambient Intelligence", which means having access to all the resources at your disposition anytime, anywhere, anyhow and in your own language, by simply speaking. This requires speech technologies built in to all kinds of devices, and "Intelligent Agents" living on the Web, which are able to identify the user (by his or her voice), and who can instruct all sorts of "webbots" to do what you want them to do (get the shareprice of L&H from the NASDAQ site, order a book from Amazon and turn the heating in you living room up to 22 degrees C, whilst telling you what is still in your fridge and suggesting a recipe to cook a meal with those ingredients, as well as giving you a list of the people who tried to phone you, sent you an e-mail - and read that e-mail to you, and allow you to dictate a reply - and telling you what and where your next appointment is and how to get there...I could go on and on ....). It also requires these agents to understand natural human speech in many languages, and to be able to answer in spoken natural language.
L&H management knows what is necessary to make this happen, has made a roadmap, and is now following that roadmap. Of course this will not happen all at once, different pieces of the puzzle are found first, and are now the individual markets where L&H is active: telecom, automotive, PC, intranets, Internet, domotics ... Also, not all end-users will start using the new technologies at the same time. That is why some geographical areas sometimes seem to adopt L&H technologies more quickly than others, such as Korea at this moment. Of course management is realistic and knows that not any one company can make all this happen on its own. Therefore, L&H has alliances with sector leaders such as Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Unisys etc.
(the interview itself is a proof off good management )
* The greater the consumer brand the better.
L&H is not what I would currently call a consumer
brand, at least to the general population. Do they
envision it becoming such? Why would the average
person care about who provided the speech software on
their hardware devices, especially if much of their
work is through OEM contracts, then the L&H name is
probably not even the name of the software package
that the user will be aware of. For example Windows
2000 uses L&H stuff, but where would a Windows user
become aware of that? perhaps their real "customers" are the companies
that they develop OEM contracts for. IS THEIR VISION
to be "THE" brand in the eyes of the contracting
companies or ultimately in the eyes of the consumer?
If the consumer, then how do they plan to achieve
that? If companies they contract with, then how can we
become acquainted with the perspective of all such
potential companies in search of speech product
support and what their opinion of L&H is? How does
Ellen feel L&H sits in the eyes of their target
population?
L&H is devoting more marketing time and effort to becoming a "consumer brand". This will also result in more of the OEM clients labeling their product with an "L&H Inside" mention, which should help create more awareness of the name towards the end-user, and which should be a guarantee for the quality of the speech and language technology in the device. L&H technologies continue to win top awards at exhibitions and shows, which also contributes to the name recognition.
Within the OEM market, as well as within the worldwide market for translation in the fields of software, automotive, aerospace etc. L&H is already a well recognized brand. Also, L&H appears as technology partner in the information for most of its large OEM customers, adding to general market awareness of the brand (why would all these large companies use L&H?) In the retail market for L&H applications the awareness is also growing, helped by good product reviews in leading magazines (for example the Ziff-Davis publications such as PC Magazine) as well as in general press and business press.
A significant constituent of financial media is
recently on record for calling it overvalued...
- we`ll have to search for that, but with the
amazing stock price increases recently, I am sure we
can find something.
- What should we ask HER about this:
How does SHE feel the company is valued on the
stock market compared to its present worth? compared
to its future worth? Hopefully SHE will not think it
is overvalued.
The company does not make statements about the valuation of the shares. That said, I think we need to emphasize that the overall market for speech and language technologies is only beginning to emerge, as more and more people have access to systems (PC`s, mobile phones, PDA`s, car navigation systems) that have enough computing power to use these technologies. Four years ago home computers did not have 300Mhz processors, necessary to run dictation software for instance. Overall use by end-users is at this moment still quite limited, but is increasing. In other markets, such as telecommunications, growth is more rapid. However, users do not notice they are using L&H when they ring Directory Enquiries for a telephone numer...
Business analysts such as TMA Associates, Forrester and others have made estimates about explosive future growth in the Speech and Language Technology markets, foreseeing classic J curves in these markets starting within the next few years, depending on which market we are talking about.
Speech Recognition, if made practical, seems like an incredible area for
Personal Information Managers (e.g. Palm) and Portable Internet Devices. Is
LHSP in any discussions with significant players in these areas
Who do they feel are their major competitors?
On 7th February 2000 L&H demonstrated an industry first: its prototype handheld device that has a large vocabulary continuous speech dictation engine to easily send and receive e-mail, surf the Web and conduct e-commerce transactionsThis patent-pending, prototype handheld device for Linux platforms is equipped with a large vocabulary speech recognition engine – an industry first –and the L&H RealSpeak text-to-speech (TTS) technology engine. During the presentation L&H demonstrated how users can employ the device to “listen” to e-mail summaries as well as full-text e-mails; issue natural language commands such as “next message” or “send e-mail”; and dictate e-mails. As part of its live presentation, L&H also demonstrated how its solutions allow a user with a wireless Web connection to make simple web queries (“What is the Weather in Fresno”; complete an e-commerce transaction, such as purchasing a book from Amazon.com; and conduct a stock trade execution on Etrade or Charles Schwab .com (“i.e. buy 200 share of Eink”). L&H does not plan to manufacture this device itself, but will license the design to OEMs.
I think this gives us a much better insight of what LHSP is all about.
With this information I personally think we can conclude this is a genuine rule breaker.
This technology will have a great impact on our future.
They certainly have my vote!
Let me know what you think
Thank you for reading this far.
Fool on
Patrick
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[KiKo]

Lernout & Hauspie settles lawsuit

By Mike Tarsala, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 8:15 PM ET Mar 26, 2000
NewsWatch

IEPER, Belgium (CBS.MW) -- Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products and medical transcription service provider MedQuist reported Sunday that the two have settled a patent lawsuit between the companies for an undisclosed amount.

In addition to the announced settlement, both sides said that they are willing to look at ways they can build a business relationship. L&H`s (LHSP: news, msgs) Dictaphone business coincides with Marlton, New Jersey-based Medquist`s (MEDQ: news, msgs) translation technology.
"The healthcare solution industry related to the application of our technology is an $8 billion market opportunity, one that L&H considers a strategic part of its current and future business plans," Gaston Bastiaens, L&H`s chief executive, said in a statement." As part of those future plans, we see MedQuist as an important player in the healthcare solutions industry and we look forward to working with them in the future."
Shares of Lernout & Hauspie closed at 105 1/8 on Friday. L&H shares have climbed from 46 1/4 at the start of the year.

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Beste Meldung seit Monaten, L&H schnappt sich Konkurrent Dragon Systems:
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Lernout & Hauspie Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Dragon Systems
Business Wire - March 28, 2000 01:35
BURLINGTON, Mass./IEPER, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2000--


Acquisition to Provide Additional Resources to Pursue New
Market Opportunities; Combined, Companies Plan to Bring
Speech to Mainstream Markets
Lernout & Hauspie (NASDAQ: LHSP, EASDAQ: LHSP) (L&H) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dragon Systems Inc. of Newton, Mass., a privately held leader in speech and language technology. Combined, the two companies` existing resources create a "brain trust" that is expected to use the best of the technologies developed in both companies to work on projects designed to accelerate the use of speech and language in emerging and mainstream consumer markets.

The acquisition will provide L&H with approximately 350 additional employees, 170 of whom are research scientists and development engineers with expertise in speech and language technology. The addition of these talented engineers and scientists will allow L&H to accelerate its pursuit of new strategic market opportunities in areas such as handheld and mobile devices, automotive, WAP, data mining, and others. It will also help the company meet the growing demand for speech and language applications in key markets such as telephony and healthcare. The increased R&D resources and the combined intellectual properties should also help L&H create speech solutions that are even more intuitive and user friendly, helping to make speech more appealing to an even broader group of general consumers.

The transaction calls for L&H to acquire all of the outstanding stock of Dragon Systems for approximately 5.45 million shares of L&H Common Stock. L&H expects the acquisition to be slightly accretive to its EPS (excluding goodwill) during the second half of 2000 and much stronger beyond 2000. The company expects the acquisition to close in the next few months. Dragon Systems had revenues of approximately $60 million and a net loss of approximately $22 million for its fiscal year 1999. L&H intends to use the purchase accounting method for this acquisition.

"By combining the two companies` R&D resources and leveraging the sales and marketing teams, we expect to significantly add to L&H`s revenue and opportunity base using approximately 8% of our market capitalization," stated Carl Dammekens, CFO of L&H.

"This acquisition represents an important turning point in L&H`s strategic development," said Gaston Bastiaens, president and CEO of L&H. "Dragon Systems is a speech industry leader well known for its technology breakthroughs and its award-winning dictation products. By combining our talent with Dragon Systems we are pooling some of the best speech and language minds in the industry to create speech solutions that are even more user friendly and are applicable for broader, more consumer oriented markets than ever before. We should also be able to speed our time to market with existing projects that to date we have not had the resources to tackle."

"The union of talented minds, visions and technologies that will occur as a result of this acquisition will benefit all parties: L&H, Dragon Systems, the speech and language industry overall and, most importantly, both companies` customers," said Dr. Janet M. Baker, Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder of Dragon Systems. "We expect that combined, the companies will more quickly be able to bring the many benefits of speech and language to a wider variety of devices and broader base of users than ever could have been accomplished by either company alone."

"This transaction is about joining the resources and technologies of two companies with common interests and vision," said Donald L. Waite, Dragon Systems` CEO. "Together, we will be able to offer customers broader solutions while providing greater opportunities for our employees, partners, and shareholders."

Resources to Help Bring Speech to Broad Markets

In particular L&H expects that it will apply its increased research, development and linguistic staff to accelerate work on key projects in application areas that include: handheld/mobile devices, smart phones, automotive, English as a second language, voice to voice translation technologies, wireless communications for Internet and e-commerce, intelligent search engines, multilingual text retrieval systems, and audio mining solutions. In the near term, the company expects to apply the resources to accelerate its time to market for NAK (code-named), its patent-pending, prototype handheld device that utilizes a large vocabulary continuous speech dictation engine and its L&H RealSpeak text-to-speech (TTS) to easily send and receive e-mail, surf the Web and conduct e-commerce transactions.

L&H also expects that it will leverage Dragon Systems` existing resources in the telephony, medical, legal and healthcare applications, allowing L&H to expand its existing offerings and customer base to meet the rapidly growing demand for speech-enabled applications in those arenas. L&H further expects that the many languages that Dragon Systems supports in its continuous speech dictation engine will give L&H immediate access to additional foreign markets for speech, including those in Japan, Italy and Spain.

"With the acquisition of Dragon Systems, L&H clearly advances its voice processing technology. Together with its recently announced acquisition of Dictaphone, L&H now possesses the distribution channels to serve a wider range of applications such as healthcare and legal and has the technology for emerging voice interface and information appliance markets," said Amy Wohl, President of Wohl Associates.

Dragon Systems Brings Customers, Brand Recognition

Dragon Systems will also provide L&H with access to its large customer base, which includes companies such as Bank America, Boeing, Citibank, Compaq, Corel, Dell, Deutsche Bank, Fujitsu, Kaiser Permanente, Peugeot, Seiko, Sony, Toshiba, Wells Fargo and many others. Its strong brand recognition in the United States will be complemented by L&H`s strengths in the U.S. and abroad, particularly in the Pacific Rim and Europe. Dragon Systems will not only bring additional R&D staff to L&H but will augment L&H`s existing lab facilities with research laboratories in the US and Cheltenham, England.

In April of 1997 Dragon Systems introduced the world`s first general purpose large vocabulary continuous speech recognition product, Dragon NaturallySpeaking(R). Since its introduction the product has claimed well over 100 major industry awards worldwide, more than any other speech software product. Dragon holds 35 patents for its speech and language technologies, many of them for technology employed in its Naturally Speaking product family.

L&H will continue to market and support Dragon NaturallySpeaking(R) as well as other products in the Dragon Systems family and the L&H Voice Xpress family of products, providing continuity and support for Dragon Systems customers and strategic partners and allowing the company to focus on a smooth integration of resources and strategies. Over time L&H expects that it will combine the best technologies from each product to create next generation products for consumers.

Organizational Structure

Following the acquisition, Dr. Janet M. Baker, Dragon Systems` chairman and co-founder, will be nominated to have a seat on L&H`s Board of Directors and become Chairman of L&H`s Technology Advisory Board. L&H plans to retain other key members of the Dragon Systems management team including John Shagoury, Dragon Systems` President, who will play a vital role in the new combined company. Donald L. Waite, Dragon Systems` CEO and Ellen Chamberlain, Dragon Systems` CFO, Vice President of Finance and Treasurer will continue to work with Dragon Systems through the transition period. Both plan to return to their executive positions at Seagate Technologies, Dragons` largest outside shareholder.

L&H has proactively put in place an experienced, carefully chosen integration team, comprised of executive management from each company. The team`s charter will be to focus on a smooth integration of the two company`s combined resources and to continue assessing the challenges and opportunities created by the acquisition. Dragon Systems has 350 employees worldwide with offices in Newton and subsidiaries in Munich, Paris, London and Tokyo.

About Dragon Systems

Dragon Systems, Inc., is a leading worldwide supplier of speech and language technology, including award-winning speech recognition software. Since its founding in 1982, Dragon Systems has developed a number of significant technology firsts in speech recognition, spanning the first built-in PC speech recognition to server based AudioMining(TM). In April 1997, the company introduced Dragon NaturallySpeaking(R), the world`s first continuous speech dictation software, which is part of its full line of multilingual speech recognition products. The company`s offerings include continuous and discrete dictation products for consumer, business and professional markets, command and control programs, vertical market add-on vocabularies for specialized applications, such as legal and medical, customized telephony solutions, and developers` tools.

Dragon Systems` goal is to "humanize" the interface between people and machines by expanding the use of speech - the most natural and efficient way for people to communicate. Speech capabilities available from Dragon Systems include continuous and discrete dictation systems, voice command systems, text-to-speech systems, customized telephony solutions, and developer tools that enable users to speech-enable applications and build interactive dialogues or custom vocabularies.

Founded in 1982 by Drs. Janet and James Baker, Dragon Systems has its headquarters in Newton, Massachusetts. It has European subsidiaries in Munch, Paris and in Marlow, near London, and additional research laboratories in Cheltenham, England (Dragon Systems GmbH, Dragon Systems France S.A.R.L., Dragon Systems SA, Dragon Systems UK Ltd, and Dragon Systems UK Research & Development Ltd, respectively). Dragon has a subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan. Dragon Systems can be found on the World Wide Web at www.dragonsys.com.

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KiKo

[KiKo]

Die guten NEWS hören nicht auf:

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NEWS ---LHSP in virtual news reader called Vandrea...waouw!!!

MAR 28, 2000, M2 Communications - London, England - The Millennium Dome -- Lernout & Hauspie (NASDAQ: LHSP; EASDAQ: LHSP) (L&H(tm)) today announced that its award-winning near human sounding text-to-speech software, L&H RealSpeak has been used by BT to create the world’s first high-resolution virtual newscaster. Developed and launched in association with the UK’s Channel 5 and ITN, the virtual news reader, Vandrea, is based on a digitised scan of the Channel 5
presenter Andrea Catherwood and is capable of live delivery of up-to-date news bulletins and simultaneous access to the latest stories via the Internet.
Vandrea defies the conventional practice of utilising audio and video streaming to deliver moving pictures via the Internet. Instead, almost the entire process takes place on the home or office PC, with the Internet used only to access text from a dedicated Channel 5 news website. This combination allows Vandrea to operate as a full-screen, high fidelity, moving image, which is technically superior to today’s TV images.
Televirtual, a privately owned British company that has pioneered the creation of ’avatars or e-citizens’, has created Vandrea using the latest 3D rendering and lip synchronisation technology and then linked this to the L&H RealSpeak text-to-speech engine. L&H RealSpeak can generate synthesized speech that is almost indistinguishable from human speech and is based on concatenation algorithms, where actual human voice segments are stored and used to convert any text into speech. In-depth language specific linguistic knowledge provides intelligent pronunciation of a wide range of variable input.
Tim Child, Televirtual’s founder, commented: "Vandrea represents a completely new breed of Virtual Newscaster which will not fall foul of the bandwidth restrictions associated with streaming video over the Internet. Unlike conventional TV broadcasts, Vandrea is not limited by geography or reception issues and can be used on a PC anywhere in the world, providing the user has an Internet connection."
Child added: "L&H RealSpeak has set a new standard for synthesised speech and will open endless possibilities in broadcast and entertainment applications where developers can bring speech to animated characters, web sites and children’s toys."
Gaston Bastiaens, CEO for Lernout & Hauspie added: "We are delighted that BT, Channel 5 and ITN have taken the lead in
creating Vandrea, which has opened the world’s eyes to the scope of text-to-speech technology. Vandrea and other virtual newscasters can also be developed for a world stage. By the end of this month L&H RealSpeak will be available in nine languages and by the end of the year we plan to offer twelve."
Text-to-speech (TTS) has been in existence for more than fifteen years. It is commonly used in applications where a large amount of information has to be spoken, or where information changes frequently. It is widely accepted that L&H’s award-winning RealSpeak represents a quantum leap in TTS technology replacing the somewhat ’robotic’ voice that we are all familiar with. L&H RealSpeak is currently being integrated into a whole variety of industry sectors and applications, including: automotive, telecommunications/ call centre, consumer electronics and Internet.
L&H RealSpeak is currently available in American English, French and Korean. By the end of April it will also be available in German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch (Belgium and The Netherlands), Swedish and UK English. By the end this year L&H plans to add Japanese, Mandarin and Norwegian.
To hear the voice of Vandrea and to find out more about L&H RealSpeak, please visit the L&H Web site at www.lhs.com. For further information on Televirtual visit www.televirtual.com
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[KiKo]

Noch mehr News, Comroad mit L&H:

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comRoad AG (DE0005449409)

Ad-hoc Mitteilung übermittelt durch die DGAP. Für den Inhalt der Mitteilung ist allein der Emittent verantwortlich.

Ad-hoc-Mitteilung gem. § 15 WpHG Linux-Telematik-Chip für die Automobil-Industrie Die ComROAD AG stellt der Automobil-Industrie weltweit noch in diesem Jahr ein offenes Telematik-Modul mit dem Betriebssystem Linux zur Verfügung. Durch die Verwendung des offenen Betriebssystems entsteht eine Standard-Plattform für die gesamte Automobil-und Telematik-Industrie. Dies ermöglicht den Automobilherstellern Telematik-Dienste in jedem Fahrzeug ab Werk anzubieten. Durch die Zusammenarbeit mit ARM, UK (Prozessortechnologie), Hyundai Electronics, Korea (ASIC Chip-Herstellung),

Lernout+Hauspie/ELAN, Belgien(Sprachausgabe, Sprachsteuerung)

und Bosch, Deutschland (CAN-Fahrzeugschnittstelle) entsteht ein spezieller Telematik-Chip. Mit diesem Chip können Telematik-Fahrzeugcomputer mit den Funktionen Navigation, Internetbrowser, Not/Pannenruf und Telefonie für unter DM 500,- (USD 250.-) ab Werk angeboten werden. Dazu Bodo Schnabel, Vorstand der ComROAD AG: "Das Kerngeschäft von ComROAD ist die Entwicklung und Vermarktung von Telematik-Service- Zentralen (Telematic-Portale). Indem der Automobilindustrie ein offenes, preisgünstiges Telematik Modul angeboten wird, erhöht sich die Anzahl der Telematik-Dienste-Benutzer um mehrere Millionen. Dies führt dazu, dass der Bedarf an Telematic-Portalen und, damit zusammen- hängend, die Lizenzeinnahmen für ComROAD drastisch steigen werden. Durch die bereits angekündigte Erweiterung der ComROAD GTTS (Global Transport Telematic System)Technologie mit WAP (Wireless Application Protokoll) und GPRS (General Packet Radio System) öffnen sich die ComROAD Telematic- Portale auch für Nutzer von WAP-fähigen Mobiltelefonen". Ansprechpartner: ComROAD AG Bodo Schnabel Vorstand Edisonstr. 8, 85716 Unterschleißheim Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone] e-mail: [e-mail] http://www.comroad.com Ende der Mitteilung 240759 Mär 00
24.03.2000 08:05:01


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[KiKo]

Auf Deutsch von WO:
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Das belgische Unternehmen Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV (LHSP) wird, wie heute bekannt gegeben wurde, den amerikanischen Konkurrenten Dragon Systems Inc. (DRGN) übernehmen. Der Kaufpreis beträgt 593 Millionen US-Dollar in Aktien. Mit dem Kauf ist das Unternehmen der größte Hersteller von Spracherkennungs-Software.

Lernout & Hauspie erhält mit der Akquisition 350 Mitarbeiter, die vor allem in den Bereichen Sprachtechnologie tätig sind. Damit verstärkt Lernout & Hauspie besonders den neuen strategischen Markt im Bereich WAP, Handhelds, Mobilfunk.... Außerdem wird damit der erhöhten Nachfrage nach Sprachprogrammen in den Schlüsselmärkten Rechnung getragen.
Dragons Programme, die mehrere Sprachen unterstützen, sollen in die Sprach-Diktierprogrammen von L & H integriert werden. Mit dieser Integration erhält L & H Zugang zu neuen Märkten wie Japan, Italien und Spanien. Ein weiterer Vorteil der für diese Übernahme spricht ist der große Kundenstamm den Dragon Systems mitbringt. Neben den Unternehmen Dell Computer, Corel, Sony, Toshiba sind auch Schwergewichte wie Boeing, Citibank oder Compaq Kunden von Dragon.
Gaston Bastians, CEO von L & H, sagte, dass die Akquisition einen entscheidenden Punkt in der Neuausrichtung des Unternehmens darstelle.

Nach der Akquisition wird Dragon Systems Gründer Dr. Janet M. Baker einen Platz im Board of Directors bei L & H erhalten. Wie mitgeteilt wurde wird L & H auch an anderen Mitarbeitern aus dem Management von Dragon festhalten.

Dragon Systems wurde 1982 von Drs. Janet und James Baker gegründet. Das Unternehmen erwirtschaftete im Jahr 1999 einen Umsatz von 60 Millionen US-Dollar, der Nettoverlust lag bei 22 Millionen US-Dollar. Das Hauptquartier des Unternehmens liegt in Newton mit weiteren Standorten in München und Paris. Seit der Gründung entwickelte das Unternehmen bahnbrechende Spracherkennungs-Softwareprodukte.
Lernaut & Hauspie ist ein global führender Hersteller von Sprachlösungen für die Computer-, Automobil-, Telekommunikationsindustrie.



Der Anteilsschein des Unternehmens musste nach einem rasanten Anstieg korrigieren, fand allerdings bei Kursen um die 100 US-Dollar Unterstützungen. Alleine heute kann die Aktie um satte 17,36 Prozent zulegen, sie steht damit bei 127 5/8 US-Dollar. Das 52-Wochen Hoch lag bei 145 US-Dollar.
Der Vergleich zum Nasdaq Index zeigt wie deutlich L & H den Index outperformed hat.

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[KiKo]

Quelle: WO-Redaktion
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Von der breiten Öffentlichkeit fast unbemerkt, ballt sich auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks derzeit eine Marktmacht zusammen, die weltweit ihresgleichen sucht. Verläuft alles nach Plan, wird der größte europäische Hersteller von Sprachverarbeitungssoftware, die belgische Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV den größten us-amerikanischen Branchenkonkurrenten, die Softwarefirma Dragon Systems Inc, übernehmen. Damit ergreift das belgische Unternehmen die Chance, als künftig welttweit größter Anbieter seine Software sowohl in Europa als auch in Nordamerika als Standard durchzusetzen.

Einerseits werden in Folge des technischen Fortschritts elektronische Bauteile immer kleiner und tragbare Geräte wie Handys oder Organizer immer leistungsfähiger.Daher könnten platzfressende Bildschirme und Tastaturen bald von den Schreibtischen verschwunden sein und Rechnern in Armbanduhren, Brillenbügeln oder Kugelschreibern Platz gemacht haben. Andererseits schrumpfen weder die Finger der Benutzer mit, noch werden ihre Augen scharfsichtiger. Die Steuerung der Rechner über die Sprache könnte hier Abhilfe schaffen.

Da die Spracherkennung, sofern sie überhaupt schon auf Personal Computern istalliert ist, erst unvollkommen funktioniert und hohe Fehlerquoten produziert, steht der Durchbruch dieser Technik nach Branchenkennern erst noch bevor. Die derzeit auf dem Markt angebotenen Spracherkennungsprogramme, bringen bei einem gleichbleibenden Wortschatz gute Leistungen, aber eine natürliche Sprachverarbeitung ist bei all diesen Anwendungen noch nicht möglich. Die aktuelle Rechnergeneration kann zwar die akustischen Signale verarbeiten, nicht aber den Sinn des Gesagten verstehen. Daher wird die Spracherkennung hinter Intelligente Agenten, PC Videoconferencing und Data Mining als eine der „heißesten Zukunftstechnologien“ eingestuft. So geht zum Beispiel das Marktforschungsunternehmen Frost & Sullivan davon aus, dass die Umsätze der Branche bis zum Jahr 2005 von heute 193 Millionen Euro auf 1,69 Milliarden Euro steigen werden. Lernout & Hauspie kalkuliert sogar mit einem Volumen von zwei Milliarden Dollar im Jahr.

Derzeit teilen IBM mit ViaVoice, Dragon mit NaturallySpeaking, Philips mit FreeSpeech2000 und Lernout & Hauspie mit VoiceXpress den weltweiten Markt unter sich auf. Dabei hält Dragon Systems, deren Programm Naturally Speaking bei Vergleichen regelmäßig als Sieger hervorgeht, einen Anteil von 48 Prozent der Umsätze. Lernout & Hauspie, das Diktat- und Übersetzungssoftware beziehungsweise Systeme zum natürlichen Sprachverstehen anbietet, kontrolliert 36 Prozent und folgt damit seinem amerikanischen Partner in nur kurzem Abstand.

Auf der diesjährigen Cebit in Hannover hat Lernout & Hauspie den Prototypen eines mit breitem Vokabular ausgestatteten und tragbaren Rechners vorgestellt, der es dem Nutzer erlaubt, mittels der eigene Stimme E-Mails zu empfangen und zu verschicken, im Web zu surfen und E-Commerce-Transaktionen zu tätigen. Dragon Systems will noch in diesem Jahr eine Anwendung auf den deutschen Markt bringen, mit der sich über die Sprache Adressdatenbanken, Terminkalender und E-Mails verwalten lassen.

Allerdings reichen die Einsatzmöglichen von sprachbasierter Software mit einiger Fantasie bei weitem über die genannten Anwendungen hinaus. Während Call-Center mit Spracherkennungssoftware direkt an die Geschäftsprozesse im Betrieb angebunden werden könnten. würden auf die menschliche Stimme reagierende Informationsdienste und Bestellseiten den E-Commerce unabhängig vom Computer machen. Mit Hilfe entsprechender Chat-Software ließen sich geschäftliche Konferenzen über das Internet technisch und organisatorisch erheblich erleichtern. Unabhängig vom künftigen Verlauf der technischen Entwicklung dürfte aber eins auf alle Fälle klar sein:

Ein "Voice Butler", der auf energischen Zuruf senes Herrn den Fernseher einschaltet oder ihn beim Stichwort „Liebling“ automatisch mit der Ehefrau oder der aktuellen Freundin verbindet, dürfte am längsten auf sich warten lassen.
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[KiKo]

Überlege mir, bei Kursen unter 110 nochmal nachzulegen. Die haben jetzt die meisten Spitzenleute und einen Marktanteil von 48%+36% = 84% !! Das ist HEAVY. In welcher Sparte findet man so etwas sonst noch?

Wie sind Eure Meinungen? Ich hör gar nichts mehr.

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[Carnardo]

L+H kannst Du bei 110, 120, 130 oder 150 kaufen.
Du kennst den Wert, und weißt was dahinter steht, nähmlich eine immer noch total unbekannte Klitsche, die noch nicht Einzug gehalten hat in die Portefeulles der MM.
In einem meiner früheren Postings (aus Zeiten des unteren 2-stelligen Aktienkurses) war mein Kursziel immer 4-stellig, und zwar wegen der gar nicht ín Zahlen zu fassenden Möglichkeiten. Trotzdem habe ich damals die letzten fehlenden 100 (zu meiner Wunschanzahl von 1000)nicht gekauft bei 31,50 weil der Kurs bei 32 stand.
Inzwischen hat sich der Kurs verdreifacht, und ich habe bei 102 Euro mein Kontingent vollgemacht. Ich schätze, in 2 Jahren kannst Du eine ähnliche Story erzählen, dann dürfte L+H auch im Laienpublikum ein Begriff sein, und dementsprechend bewertet.
Einfach kaufen und vergessen. Allerdings, eine Korrektur um 50% sollte man mental wegstecken, geht aber nur, wenn man sich mit der Firma beschäftigt. Traden ist hier völlig überflüssig, man läuft nur Gefahr, aus dem Zug zu springen und hinterherzuschauen.

Noch was zum Traden: Habe Montag noch mal 500 SPYG bei 75 nachgelegt wg OPEN-TV- Übernahme mit (Anhand des am OPTV-Kurs)errechneten Übernahmekurs von 122$. Erst großer Jubel, daß ich tatsächlich noch welche bekommen habe, im Tagesverlauf Anstieg auf 102 E, eigentlich totsichere Sache (hab zumindest geglaubt..), heute runter auf 70 in USA.
Hätt ich mal besser Montag für 109 in Lernout gesteckt....

[KiKo]

sehe ich ja genauso, ich weiß nur Momentan echt nicht, was ich verkaufen soll. habe einiges vom NM, welche gut laufen, dann CMGI (wegen Altavista), INTA (wieder eingestiegen), NETP (auch wieder neu bei 39). Werd mal sehen was ich übermorgen verkaufen kann, denn morgen ist wohl eh ausverkauf nach DER Nasdaq heute.

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[Carnardo]

Könnte morgen und die nächsten Wochen böse werden, falls kein Rebound kommt und allen die Angst vor einer Neueinschätzung der aktuellen unglaublichen Bewertungen nimmt.
Deshalb nur in Werte, an die man felsenfest glaubt, sonst werden wir ausgenommen wie Schlachtvieh.
Ich hatte im NM einige Investements, die auch etwas Rendite brachten, allerdings nie den großen Deal. Wenn hier die Stimmung RICHTIG dreht, hat man eigentlich kaum Chancen unter 30% Verlust rauszukommen.
Könnte schon sein, daß die HighTecs jetzt mal ein kleines Päuschen einlegen.
Dann doch lieber was Erzkonservatives wie Sprachtechnologie ;-))

[Milkman]

Hi Leute,

ich hab mal bißchen gestöbert in Sachen Sprachtechnologie und bin bei www.heise.de (Telepolis) auf einen Artikel vom Januar 1997 über die Grenzen der Sprachtechnologie fündig geworden. Dabei geht es auch um das deutsche Forschungsprojekt VERBMOBIL. Vergleicht doch mal das dort geschriebene mit der heutigen Situation.

Der Artikel heißt: Keine Lyrik und kein Liebesgeflüster


URL: http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/robo/6214/1.html

Viel Spaß beim lesen

Milkman

[KiKo]

31.3.00
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It takes more than a gorilla-sized combination made possible by soaring stock prices to create a certified long-term gorilla.

Case in point: the Lernout & Hauspie (LHSP:Nasdaq - news - boards) acquisition, announced Tuesday, of Dragon Systems. No doubt, this deal combines the Nos. 1 and 2 independent companies in the consumer speech-recognition market. (Dragon Systems has about 48% of the consumer market and Lernout & Hauspie has about 36%. IBM (IBM:NYSE - news - boards) is third with about 15%).

And it comes on the heels of Lernout & Hauspie`s acquisition of Dictaphone, a maker of dictation devices used heavily by doctors.

But size isn`t everything. Speech-recognition technology is developing so fast that there`s a good chance the winning technology is yet to emerge. And we certainly haven`t reached the design-in stage so important to creating and maintaining a gorilla.

For a software company, it`s only when a company`s product is designed into devices in such a pervasive manner that it dominates the market, that the company can reach gorilla status, according to The Gorilla Game. We`re a long way from that stage in speech recognition.

Does all this mean you shouldn`t buy Lernout & Hauspie or any other not-yet certain gorilla, or pass up shares of Oracle or any other gorilla facing potential challenges?

Certainly not. But it does mean you should pay less for companies in these situations than you would for a gorilla such as Cisco. It also means that these stocks require more attention from an investor than those that seem solidly at the top of the heap.

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KiKo

[Milkman]

Ja, wie gehts wohl nun weiter mit LHSP in dieser Korrekturphase?
Die Unterstützung bei 100$ scheint zu halten.

Eine neue Meldung von gestern:
(LHSP rollt den spansich sprechenden Markt von Lateinamerika auf!)

LERNOUT & HAUSPIE SPEECH PRODUCTS said on Monday it was about to launch a voice recognition dictation product to the Spanish-speaking Latin American market. L&H declined to give sales or revenue estimates for the product called Voice Xpress Spanish. Kimberlee Mineo, a senior L&H sales executive, said: "As the use of personal computers increases in the Latin American market, this market becomes more significant for L&H." (Reuters 11:08 AM ET 04/03/2000)

Hier ein Chart der letzten 6 Monate mit Bollinger-Band und MACD, dazu noch die NASDAQ-Performance:



Gruß Milkman

[KiKo]

Bei DEM Umfeld hält sich L&H noch recht wacker.
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Tuesday April 4, 2:02 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Lernout & Hauspie Signs Important Translation, Localization Agreement With Worldmine
One of The Travel Industry`s Fastest Growing Web Sites Will Enlist L&H for Multi-lingual, Multi-Million Word Translation and Localization of Site Content
SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2000-- Lernout & Hauspie (Nasdaq: LHSP, Easdaq: LHSP) (L&H) today announced a significant agreement with Worldmine, one of the world`s fastest growing travel Web sites, under which it will provide translation and localization services for the Singapore-based company`s on-line travel Web site content. The project is large -- more than 270 million words in multiple languages covering 580 travel destinations -- and complex, requiring extensive human translation, machine translation and linguistic expertise. It is a significant localization and is indicative of the company`s deep and broad expertise and leading presence in the localization industry.

As part of the agreement, L&H will initially translate and localize Worldmine`s Web pages into Japanese and German followed by Asian languages such as Chinese and Korean and then European languages. The project will employ a range of human translation services, language tools, memory tools and machine translation software to translate Web content, and will leverage L&H`s linguistic expertise to build travel-specific terminology databases. The terminology databases will be an integral part of the machine translation process and should allow Worldmine to cost-effectively translate the huge volume of material comprising its Web site.

``The explosive growth of e-commerce and the Internet are forcing the continuing globalization of businesses. As a result we are seeing a dramatic increase in the demand for translation and localization services,`` said Florita Mendez, president of L&H`s Globalization and Internet Translation Business Group. ``This increased demand is accompanied by the need for the more sophisticated technologies and expertise which L&H can provide.``

``Non-English speaking Internet users number about 43% of the world`s total,`` said Louis Woo, President and General Manager L&H Asia Pacific. ``This fact, when combined with analyst`s predictions that the number or Internet users worldwide will be over 350 million by 2003(a), presents global communications challenges of unprecedented proportion. Our agreement with Worldmine underscores how localization can help overcome those challenges by making the Internet and all its services accessible, appealing and understandable to users worldwide, regardless of their native language.``

Worldmine Walking Tour Showcased

During a press conference in Singapore today Mark Weingard, Worldmine founder and CEO discussed the possibility of additional ventures between Worldmine and L&H, including online audio phrasebooks and other innovative technologies such as accessing information from mobile devices.

At the press conference, Worldmine featured a technology demonstration during which a tourist downloaded an MP3 virtual ``Walking Tour`` from the Worldmine Web site onto an MP3 player. L&H technology was then deployed to translate the tour into French and Japanese. The demonstration also included samples of Worldmine Web pages that had been translated into Chinese, Korean and German using L&H technology. Additionally, the demonstration showcased how a user can view a tour from streaming video and have the text read to them in natural sounding speech using the award winning L&H(TM) Realspeak(TM) TTS technology. A sample of the Worldmine MP3 Walking Tours is available on www.worldmine.com.

``To survive in the Internet world you`ve got to be multilingual and you have to ensure that your information is available to everyone,`` said Mr. Weingard. ``L&H provides us with the ability to reach across the globe and the toolset that allows us to communicate.``

About Worldmine

Worldmine is a ``new media`` publisher based in Singapore, producing hotel and destination information. The company offers travelers in-depth, current and credible content, with extensive personalization. Its core products are:

Hotelmine - a comprehensive, objective, interactive guide to hotels. Hotelmine is the first guide to include a personalized rating system, which finds the right hotel for each individual. Hotelmine only recommends hotels that have been personally reviewed by a Worldmine writer.

Travelmine - a personalized travel guide, giving in-depth and up to date information regarding destinations across the world and written specifically for the Web with the tourist in mind. Travelmine is the first guide to include MP3 walking tours through the historical and cultural areas of each destination and streaming video guides to major attractions, festivals and nightlife.

Worldmine is currently developing interactive travel guides in Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, English, German and French, serving the global market place.

Worldmine employs approximately 60 people and currently has offices in Singapore, Mebourne, Bangkok and expects to open offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo, London and the United States by the end of the year.

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KiKo

[KiKo]

Fett: Microsoft + L&H

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Microsoft and Lernout & Hauspie to Accelerate Multilingual Speech-Application Development
PR Newswire - April 05, 2000 14:03

Microsoft Speech SDK Developers to Have Access to Localized L&H Speech Engines

REDMOND, Wash., April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) (Nasdaq: LHSP; Easdaq) will lead the adoption of the upcoming Microsoft(R) Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) 5.0. Under an arrangement that will benefit developers and consumers of speech-enabled solutions, Lernout & Hauspie will work to deliver multilingual automatic speech-recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) engines for Microsoft SAPI 5.0. The L&H(TM) ASR1600 automatic speech-recognition engine and the L&H TTS3000 text-to-speech engine, which are used widely by developers for PC and multimedia application development, are planned to be SAPI 5.0-compliant across multiple languages and available through the next release of the Microsoft Speech SDK for development purposes. Developers wishing to commercialize multilingual applications will have the option of obtaining distribution licenses from L&H.

The Microsoft SAPI 5.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) includes the Microsoft SAPI middleware, ASR and TTS reference engines, source files, sample applications, tools and documentation that help both speech engine and application developers build speech solutions.

"SAPI 5.0 is all about making it easier and faster for developers to bring new speech applications to market," said Doug Henrich, general manager of the Speech Product Group at Microsoft. "L&H`s early work in supporting SAPI 5.0 with its speech-recognition and TTS technologies helps ensure much broader market success in delivering speech-enabled applications."

"Our early support of SAPI 5.0, the availability of our engines through the Microsoft Speech Web site, and our ongoing collaboration with Microsoft on the SAPI feature set demonstrate the continuation of our strategic relationship with Microsoft that helps accelerate the worldwide deployment of speech solutions," said Gerald Calabrese, senior vice president of World Wide Sales for L&H.

L&H`s Speech Engines

The L&H PC/MM ASR1600 engine is a software-only phonetic-speech-recognition engine ideal for multimedia and PC applications. The ASR1600 provides high-quality continuous speech recognition with a spectrum of consumer microphones of varying range. The product is speaker-independent and provides accurate recognition, even in noisy environments, without user training.

The L&H PC/MM TTS3000 engine is a software-only text-to-speech engine with a small footprint that is recommended for PC, multimedia and embedded applications. The high-level engine converts any computer-readable text into intelligible, high-quality synthetic speech. The technology is based on algorithms that store actual human voice segments. In-depth, language-specific linguistic knowledge provides intelligent pronunciation of a wide range of inputted text.
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[KiKo]

IDEAS
Speak up, dear. Your computer is listening
Tom Regan
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

It`s early Monday morning. You climb into your car, turn on the engine, and the first thing you hear is, "Good morning, dear." It`s the voice of your wife. Only she`s not in the car. It`s the voice-enabled computer in your car that acts as your personal assistant - you`ve just programmed it with your wife`s voice.After returning the greeting - after all, one has to be polite to one`s spouse, even when she`s computer-generated - you ask for your daily appointments and any important future meetings that week. Your personal assistant says she`ll be just a minute and soon returns with your entire day`s appointments, along with last night`s Major League Baseball scores.

Your first appointment is an important phone call to your distributor in Germany. You voice-activate your cellphone, tell it to turn on voice translation, so when your distributor speaks in German, you hear an understandable and smooth English translation. When you start to talk, your German friend will hear you speaking in German, translated on the fly, in a voice that she`s already chosen to represent all English-language speakers.


Not science-fiction

Think it`s all science fiction? Read on.

Welcome to the amazing world of voice recognition, one of technology`s most intriguing, most promising, and yet most-challenging new sectors.

The idea behind voice recognition has been around for years. Who isn`t familiar with the image of Captain Picard ordering a cup of Earl Grey, hot. But it wasn`t until 1997, when Dragon Systems introduced Naturally Speaking, the first commercially available continuous-speech software (which means you don`t have to pause between words), that voice-recognition technology became available to the public.

Last week, the field received a dramatic boost when Lernout and Hauspie (L&H) of Burlington, Mass., one of the leading voice-recognition companies, announced that it would acquire Dragon Systems. The move brings together some of the best scientists working on voice recognition, with an eye to getting the technology into as many different computers and Internet devices as possible.

"Frankly, we`ve been challenged because of a lack of manpower," says Bill Destefanis, senior director of project management for L&H. "Instead of competing with each other, we decided to work together because we feel we can get farther that way and faster."

So how realistic is the idea of using your voice to interact with a computer? Very realistic, if you listen to the engineers and scientists at L&H. That`s why the company and its competitors (primarily Philips and IBM) see this emerging technology as one with an incredible "upside."

"We really do see speech being used in common human devices," says Mr. Destefanis. "Just take hands-free dialing. Six states have legislation that mandates cellular phones may only be used in cars if they are done so in a hands-free manner.

"Or take set-top TV boxes. They will be used to drive a fairly sophisticated computer on top of the television that will give people incredible access to information. If we don`t use voice to control these set-top TV boxes, all that remains are those clunky remote controls. People will feel far more comfortable using their voice to program a computer than they will a remote control," he says.

This view is echoed by Ray Kurzweil, one of the most preeminent thinkers in the field of voice recognition. In his latest book, "The Age of Spiritual Machines," Dr. Kurzweil lays out a future where speech will be the primary means of interacting with technology.

"In the next decade, we will see translating telephones that provide real-time speech translation from one language to another, intelligent computerized personal assistants that can converse and rapidly search and understand the world`s knowledge bases, and a profusion of other machines with increasingly broad and flexible intelligence."

But the idea of using your voice as the primary means to interact with either your computer or any Internet device is not endorsed by everyone. For instance, Jeff Hawkins, who designed the original Palm Pilot, is against speech technology. Mr. Hawkins has told the news media that he doubts that users of personal digital assistants will want to use their voice as the primary method of importing data into a PDA.

Another caution comes from Scott Relf, vice president for marketing at Sprint PCS. Currently, Sprint offers a variety of phones that enable people to use simple voice commands to dial numbers already programmed into digital cellphones. Yet Mr. Relf doesn`t see a world that`s completely ready for voice recognition yet.

"The problem is that right now, the technology really doesn`t work well in a small handset," he says. "Meanwhile, our focus groups have shown us that most people learn to type simple text messages in about a month, using the keying-in method. We asked a group of young people in the United Kingdom and Japan to text key in the message, `I have had a brilliant time tonight.` The faster kids were able to do it in 15 seconds."


The need for speed

Voice-recognition software requires computers with fast processors and a lot of random-access memory. Susan Fulton, an expert on speech-recognition software, says that using speech recognition requires "an investment of both time and money." On her Web site she writes that the minimum specifications that various vendors list are far below optimal. (Most call for about 64 megabites of memory and 200 megahertz.) She recommends a computer with a Pentium 2, 400 megahertz processor, and 128MB of RAM.

The scientists at L&H, in fact, are the first to tell you that technology is currently the biggest drawback to widespread acceptance of voice recognition as an everyday activity.

But they also point out that only two or three years ago, the kind of continuous-speech technology available today wasn`t possible because machines weren`t powerful enough. As processors grow faster and smaller and as memory gets more affordable, voice recognition will become increasingly more accessible.

"Voice recognition touches every part of our lives, moving beyond the desktop," according to Klaus Schleicher, director of product management, L&H`s PC Applications Division. "We see the future as one where people will be able to get information anywhere, and they will be using their voice as the interface to get that information."


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Yours digitally
KiKo

[lenny007]

Hi,
die Dragon-Übernahme ist noch nicht in trockenen Tüchern.
Die Kartellbehörden werden bestimmt ein Wörtchen mitreden.
Hoffen wir das Beste!
Ananova wird diesen Monat noch für Aufsehen sorgen.
Da bin ich mir sicher.
Long on LHSP!
Gruß

[pekingente]

Hi lenny,

sollte die übernahme tatsächlich angefochten werden...
wo hast du das her. habe nicht die muße mir die englischen
texte durchzulesen, hab ich da was verpaßt.

bin stark in lhsp investiert, weil ich das unternehmen
für eine dicke perle halte.

wäre vielleicht sinnvol neuen thread aufzumachen...

wer übrigens ist ananova

danke p.ente

[Milkman]

Hi pekingente,

hier erfährst du alles, was Ananova ist:

Ananova looks, acts and behaves like any human newscaster - in fact some might say she has a warmer personality than many of the real ones!

There is no mistaking that she is an artificial computerised creation, with as much in common with Hal from 2001 as Trevor McDonald from the TV.

Ananova is a creature of the Web. She is born of digital DNA - the bits, bytes and data streams of information that course through the veins of the Internet. She sees and hears the vast amounts of news and data pulsing around the world, travelling over networks and bouncing off satellites. The volume of information in the networked world of the 21st Century holds no fear for Ananova.

usw... im Text hier: http://www.ananova.com/948304499_19569.html oder allgemein bei www.ananova.com

Milkman

[KiKo]

Lernout & Hauspie - endlich verstehen Computer uns

Die belgische Lernout & Hauspie [Nasdaq: LHSP Kurs / Chart ], Weltmarktführer bei Spracherkennungssystemen für Computer, präsentierte am Montag erstmals ein Spracherkennungssystem für den Einsatz in Kliniken.

Das Produkt soll ab dem dritten Quartal des Jahres auf den Markt kommen. Dann können Ärzte per Telefon oder Internet medizinische Diagnosen und Patientendaten in ein Dokumentationssystem sprechen. Damit wird das Anlegen und Verwalten von Patientendaten nach Firmenangaben so stark vereinfacht, dass Gesundheitsorganisationen weltweit jährlich mehrere Milliarden US-Dollar einsparen können.

Mehr als 3000 Krankenhäuser stehen bereits heute auf der Kundenliste der Belgier, die im März diesen Jahres den Diktiergerätehersteller Dictaphone gekauft hatten. Dessen Geräte sind besonders in Krankenhäusern stark verbreitet.

Aber auch andere Branchen hat Vorstandsvorsitzender Gaston Bastiaens im Visier: "Die Möglichkeit, Spracherkennungssysteme anbieten zu können, die selbst große Vokabelmengen verarbeiten, ist ein technologischer Durchbruch für Lernout & Hauspie, der erlaubt, das Telefon als Diktiergerät zu nutzen."

© 10.04.2000 www.stock-world.de

Yours digitally
KiKo

[KiKo]

** (soll ich einen neuen Thrad eröffnen? Ladezeite sind doch erheblich geworden. Sagt mal was, auf Wünsche kann man immer reagieren) **

Das Neueste vom Tage:
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Tuesday April 11, 4:37 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Visteon Corporation and Lernout & Hauspie Announce Their Intent to Create a Joint Venture to Develop Next Generation Speech-Enabled Solutions for the Automobile
DEARBORN, Mich. and BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2000--


Leading Automotive Industry Supplier and L&H Plan to Pool Strengths

to Bring Voice Interface to Growing Speech for Automotive Market;

Plans to Focus on Automotive ISP Solutions and Services

Lernout & Hauspie (NASDAQ: LHSP, EASDAQ: LHSP) (L&H) and Visteon Corporation today announced their intent to create a joint venture dedicated to advancing and accelerating the speech interface in automotive applications. This joint venture will include automotive Internet speech portal services and solutions. The venture plans to leverage L&H`s full range of speech technologies and Visteon`s expertise in automotive speech design and integration to develop voice-enabled solutions for automobile equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket.

L&H will have a 60 percent interest in the venture; Visteon will invest $20 million in the venture, giving it a 40 percent interest. The new company is expected to be jointly managed and draw talent from both Visteon and L&H(TM) resources. The purpose of the joint venture will be to provide a dedicated, single source of high-end, integrated speech products and technology dedicated to the automotive industry. The new joint venture is scheduled to be launched with fifty employees in mid-2000. This approach is intended to give the joint venture the tools needed to quickly come to market with the highest quality and most innovative industry solutions for customers.

Use of the speech interface in automotive devices eliminates the need to manually control many dashboard level instruments, fostering safety by allowing drivers to keep their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel. These benefits, coupled with the ease of use and convenience of a speech interface, are expected to accelerate speech recognition in the automotive market over the next few years.

``The voice user interface will be the primary way of interacting with devices in the automobile and controlling outside communications, particularly as features proliferate,`` noted William Meisel, president of TMA Associates, a speech industry market consulting firm in Tarzana, California. ``The capability is already in a number of luxury cars, proving its feasibility, and it will eventually be a standard feature of all vehicles. In addition, there will be a significant upgrade market as drivers try to make the most of their driving time--both in terms of productivity and entertainment,`` Meisel added.

``L&H sees a tremendous opportunity in speech for the automotive market, particularly in the deployment of an Internet portal for automobiles. By leveraging our talent with Visteon`s extensive automotive expertise and impressive global customer base, we can more quickly penetrate this market and capitalize on this rapidly growing opportunity,`` said Gaston Bastiaens, president and CEO of L&H. ``This joint venture will be the industry`s first entity to dedicate a full spectrum of speech technologies and talent exclusively to the development, design and implementation of speech for the automobile.``

``This partnership with L&H elevates vehicle voice technology to the next level,`` said Peter Pestillo, Chairman and CEO, Visteon. ``It allows us to accelerate voice technology integration into a wider range of complete vehicle systems. Visteon Voice Technology combined with L&H`s speech and language solutions will provide our customers with leading edge voice-enabled solutions in vehicles today.``

The joint venture is expected to further each company`s prior independent efforts to create a wide range of speech enabled automotive solutions to meet the needs of all automobile product manufacturers, integrators and vehicle manufacturers worldwide. Future potential solutions from the joint venture include voice-activated access to dashboard devices such as audio systems, climate control systems, speech-only cell phones and voice-enabled navigation systems. It is also expected the joint venture will create a new automotive ISP focused on solutions and services capable of meeting the information needs of millions of customers. These solutions and services will allow users to access the Internet, conduct searches, make e-commerce transactions and retrieve information - all using conversational speech with support for a variety of languages.

About Visteon

Visteon Corporation is focused on becoming the world`s leading consumer-focused, technology driven automotive systems company. Visteon has a wide array of product lines, which account for more than 40 percent of a vehicle`s content. Visteon Corporation is recognized around the world for outstanding product quality, reliability and cost competitiveness, innovative solutions to customer needs, and corporate stewardship of the environment and community.

Visteon Corporation is a leading full-service supplier that delivers consumer-driven technology solutions to automotive manufacturers worldwide and through multiple channels within the global automotive aftermarket. Visteon has a global delivery system of more than 130 technical, manufacturing, sales and service facilities located in 23 countries. It has 81,000 employees working in three core business segments: Dynamics and Energy Conversion; Comfort, Communication and Safety; and Glass.
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Yours digitally
KiKo

[lenny007]

Hi,

KiKo, neuer Thread wäre gut, Ladezeiten sind zu lang.


Pekingente: www.newsbyte.ch

L&H übernimmt Konkurrent Dragon
28. März 2000
L&H/Dragon - Im Bereich Sparcherkennungs-Software hat es eine
erneute und wohl die letzte Übernahme gegeben. Lernout & Hauspie
aus Belgien übernimmt die Firma Dragon Software, bislang Marktführer
im Bereich Spracherkennung. Dragon ist ein letzter Kandidat zur
Übernahme, Anfang März schluckte L&/H bereits die Firma
Dictaphone. Ob dabei die Kartellbehörden grünes Licht geben ist eher
unwahrscheinlich, zusammen würden Dragon und L&H mehr als 80
Prozent des Spracherkennungs-Marktes besitzen. L&H hat sich aber
vorbehaltlich der Zustimmung der Kartellbehörden zur Zahlung von 587
Millionen Dollar bereit erklärt, zuviel für Dragon um da nein zu sagen.
http://www.dragon.com


Ananovas Sprache wird mit L&H Realspeak realisiert.
Start am 19.4.2000. Das wird für mächtigen Medienrummel sorgen.
Ich rechne mit einer Pressemeldung von L&H.


Gruß