Redmond, WA — (press release excerpt) — Conversay and Seoul-based PalmPalm Technology are collaborating to integrate Conversay's speech recognition software into PalmPalm's Tynux embedded Linux platform. Tynux targets such applications as smart phones, Web appliances, and wireless devices. The first product of this agreement is the integration of Conversay's speech technology into the world's first Linux-based smart phone. The device will be demonstrated next week at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco (booth 101). The device incorporates the functions of both cellular phone and PDA, along with multimedia functionalities including animation, MP3, video communication and more, all driven by a speech interface.

Tynux, developed by PalmPalm Technology and released early this year, is an embedded Linux operating system that provides power and memory management as well as real time functionalities for multimedia data transactions. Conversay will integrate its speech recognition and text-to-speech engine with the Tynux platform, enabling device users to access and use device functions and features using spoken input and commands. The Conversay speech interface is speaker-independent and features a dynamic and virtually unlimited vocabulary. Conversay earlier this year integrated its speech technology into the YOPY, the world's first Linux-based PDA.

 
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