Conversay's speech recognition technology will be licensed to a Linux PDA being developed by Language Bank and Shin Information Systems (SHINS), both of Seoul, South Korea. The PDA is targeted to Koreans learning to speak and pronounce English — the device will accurately recognize and execute commands when spoken… with North American English pronunciation.

Shin Information Systems is the designer and integrator of the system, which runs on the Linux platform, and also developed the language application software that employs Conversay speech technology. Language Bank developed the educational content for the application.

Terms of the licensing agreement with Conversay were not released. The device is expected to reach the market in March 2001.

 
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