by Samuel Quek
Partners will deploy speech and language technologies, extend reach to customers
Singapore, 4 April 2000 - Lernout and Hauspie today announced a list of new Singaporean partners under its Speech, Artificial Intelligence, Language (SAIL) Partners program.
Several of the partners demonstrated how their products/services would be enhanced by L&H technologies.
The partners, consisting of portals, startups, dot-coms and new media vary in their styles, but are all consistant in their reliance on IT:
"Non-english speaking Internet users number about 43% of the world's total," said Louis Woo, president and general manager of L&H Asia Pacific. "This fact, when combined with analysts' predictions that the number of Internet users will be over 350 million by 2002, presents global communications challenges of unprecedented proportion."
L&H's SAIL Partner program, first launched in January of this year, is an end-to-end partnership program aimed at helping partners bring new products to market.
About Lernout & Hauspie
Lernout & Hauspie is a provider of advanced speech and
language solutions for vertical markets, computers, automobiles,
telecommunications, embedded products, consumer goods and the
Internet.
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).