[bcab] FW: Embedded speech in mobile Phones

Folks

I picked up the following news item from the Nuance website, I wonder if
this means we'll soon have phones that don't need screenreaders.

Steve

Embedded Speech Technology from Nuance Communications Powers New Mobile
Phones from Pantech

Text-to-Speech Unlocks the Power of New Pantech GSM Phones

BURLINGTON, Mass., November 30, 2006 - Nuance Communications, Inc.
(NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions,
today announced that
the Pantech Group, the second largest mobile phone company in South
Korea, has selected speech solutions from Nuance Communications to power
its PG-6200,
PG-8000 and PG-3700 handsets in multiple languages, including Russian,
English and Mandarin Chinese. The products are already available in the
Russian
and Taiwanese markets.

Pantech's new GSM models, with advanced camera and multimedia
functionality, are intended for sophisticated handset users. The phones
include RealSpeak(tm)
Mobile SF from Nuance, the industry's leading text-to-speech engine, to
accurately convert text into highly intelligible, synthesized speech.
RealSpeak
Mobile is embedded in devices to deliver high-quality text-to-speech
readout of SMS and email messages.

"We believe this partnership with Nuance Communications will add a
significant edge both to our handsets and our ability to roll out new
products in different
parts of the world," said Tae Hyun Jung, vice president, R&D planning
division, Pantech Group. "Our goals is to selectively increase the scope
of our service
in a number of key markets, and being able to provide handsets that are
fully functional in local languages will be integral to this process."

"Phones have always been a natural for speech technology, but until
recently handsets lacked the processing power and memory to make it
work," said Craig
Peddie, vice president, Embedded Speech Solutions, Nuance. "Today this
has changed, and there are now 50 million phones shipping with Nuance
speech technologies.
Our technology is cost effective, accurate, easy to use, and easy to
integrate, providing value for the user, the manufacturer and the
operator."

More than 30 manufacturers worldwide have implemented Nuance solutions
in more than 50 million devices around the world, including cellular
phones, smart
phones and PDAs. Its current customer portfolio includes many of the
leaders in the wireless and device industries, including LG Electronics,
Motorola,
NEC, Analog Devices, Agere Systems, Hitachi, Intel, Mitsubishi Electric,
Samsung, Panasonic, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.

About RealSpeak Mobile

RealSpeak Mobile provides a scalable embedded text-to-speech system for
mobile handsets. With RealSpeak Mobile any SMS and email from a user's
inbox can
be read aloud in more than 20 languages and 30 voices. In order to
accommodate typical handset resource constraints, RealSpeak Mobile is
available in different
memory configurations ranging from a low footprint, entry level version
(RealSpeak Mobile SF) to the very high speech quality of RealSpeak
Mobile HQ with
advanced text pre-processing functionality.

About Pantech Group

Pantech, through its affiliates - Pantech Co., Ltd., Pantech&Curitel
Communications, Inc. and Pantech C&I Co. - is the second largest mobile
phone company
in South Korea and is the seventh largest handset manufacturer in the
world. Pantech has been responsible for a number of breakthrough
innovations in the
mobile technology sector, including the introduction in 2004 of the
world's first fingerprint recognition camera phone, as well as award
winning camcorder,
MP3 and DMB phones. In 2005, Pantech affiliate Pantech&Curitel
Communications acquired SK Teletech Co., the handset manufacturing arm
of SK Telecom, the
number one mobile network operator in South Korea. The SKY brand,
originally marketed by SK Teletech as the most popular premium handset
brand in South
Korea, has since become part of the Pantech brand portfolio. Pantech
markets its products under the SKY and Curitel brands in the domestic
Korean market
and under the Pantech brand overseas. Pantech collectively has
approximately 5,000 employees and 22 regional sales offices worldwide.
For more information
on Pantech, please visit
www.pantech.com.

About Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for
business and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications,
and services make
the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people
interact with information and how they create, share, and use documents.
Every day,
millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance's proven
applications. For more information, please visit
www.nuance.com.

Nuance, the Nuance logo and RealSpeak are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the
United States and/or
other countries. All other company names or product names may be the
trademarks of their respective owners.

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Steve Plumpton (BTCS Project Manager)

steve.plumpton@xxxxxxxxxxx
0121 665 4255

Digital Accessibility Team
RNIB
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Birmingham
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