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FNIX News Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Introduces New Mobile Phones Featuring Fonix Text-to-Speech Integrated into the Casio Soft Mobile Dictionary
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fonix Speech, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary ofFonix®
Corporation (OTCBB:FNIX) specializing in embedded speech interfaces for
mobile devices, handheld electronic products, video game systems and
processors, announces Fonix DECtalk text-to-speech (TTS) on two new
dictionary-enabled mobile phones for the Japanese market introduced by
Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications, a company providing customers with
highly reliable mobile phone products packed with cutting-edge
technologies, and Casio Soft Co., Ltd., a mobile technology company
integrating Casio hardware and software to worldwide mobile applications.
Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications’ (CHMC)
two new mobile phones — the Casio W51CA and
the Hitachi W51H, which are built on the BREW operating system —
feature Fonix text-to-speech and are now available for sale in Japan.
Casio Soft integrated Fonix TTS into the Mobile Dictionary, which ‘speaks’
dictionary words and sentences to the user in English. Fonix receives
unit royalties from the sale of each phone.
“Casio Soft chose Fonix text-to-speech as the
voice of the Mobile Dictionary because Fonix DECtalk is clear and
understandable,” says Yutaka Kida, Planning
Department Manager, Casio Soft. “We’re
excited to offer customers such a useful, high-quality device.”
“These new Casio and Hitachi phones feature
Fonix technology embedded directly on the devices,”
explains Walt Nawrocki, Senior VP and GM, Fonix Speech. “Casio
Soft and CHMC have done a terrific job of engineering yet another way to
incorporate TTS technology into a handheld device by combining a helpful
e-dictionary and a mobile phone. We’re
expecting customers to readily accept these phones and create market
demand for them.”
The Casio W51CA and the Hitachi W51H are available in Japan through
mobile carrier KDDI/au (www.au.kddi.com).
For more information about Fonix speech solutions, visit www.fonix.com,
or call 801-553-6600 and say “Sales.”
About Casio Soft
Casio Soft Co., Ltd. was established by collecting all of the IT
capabilities of the entire Casio group into a single entity. Today, the
lightweight, compact, low-power hardware and software technology that
are the strengths of Casio mobile devices and communication and network
technology are divided between Business Solutions and Software
Components. Our mission is to form a partnership with our clients in
order to provide value that enhances their competitive advantages. This
is accomplished by applying Casio hardware and software to create new
value that contributes to the growth of our customers. Visit www.casiosoft.co.jp
for more information.
About Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications
Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd., established on April 1,
2004, provides customers with highly reliable mobile phone products
packed with cutting-edge technologies.
The company brings together under a single roof the many highly
competitive technological assets possessed by Casio and Hitachi. Among
these are Casio’s high-density mounting
technology, imaging technology, and application technology, which make
the most of its success with consumer electronics, and Hitachi’s
superior high-speed data transmission technology, device utilizing
technology, and system design technology, all powerful drivers of its
leadership in the info communications and audio-video fields.
Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications is poised not only to take advantage
of the accelerating growth of the mobile phone market, but to lead the
way with innovations that have never been seen before. The firm’s
cutting-edge technologies have been streamlined and integrated for
maximum focus on its core competencies, faster and more efficient
development, and a robust production system that will deliver
best-selling mobile phones that really do make life more exciting and
dreams come true.
About Fonix DECtalk
Fonix DECtalk offers the smallest memory footprint for a multi-language,
full-dictionary text-to-speech engine in the industry. Fonix DECtalk is
specifically engineered for small devices and limited memory
applications and provides a standard of intelligible and natural sound
quality that surpasses competitive TTS offerings. DECtalk supports a
wide array of hardware platforms and operating systems and offers nine
voices (four female, four male and one child’s
voice) and seven languages (U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian and Latin
American Spanish, French, German and Italian).
About Fonix
Fonix Corporation (OTCBB:FNIX), based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is an
innovative speech recognition and text-to-speech technology company that
provides value-added speech solutions through its wholly owned
subsidiary, Fonix Speech, Inc., currently offering voice solutions for
mobile/wireless devices; interactive video games, toys and appliances;
computer telephony systems; the assistive market and automotive
telematics. Fonix provides developers and manufacturers with
cost-effective speech solutions to enhance devices and systems. Visit www.fonix.com
for more information, or call (801) 553-6600 and say “Sales.”
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Harbor” provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the Company’s
expectations, hopes, intentions and strategies for the future. Investors
are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risk and
uncertainties that may affect the Company’s
business prospects and performance. The Company’s
actual results could differ materially from those in such
forward-looking statements. Risk factors include general economic,
competitive, governmental and technological factors as discussed in the
Company’s filings with the SEC on Forms 10-K,
10-Q and 8-K. The Company does not undertake any responsibility to
update the forward-looking statements contained in this release.
