Peabody, MA — (press release excerpt) — ScanSoft, Inc. today unveiled the ASR-3200, a highly accurate and scalable automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine for adding voice control capabilities to automotive, mobile, and PC applications. The ScanSoft ASR-3200 is a new speaker-independent recognition engine that meets the size and accuracy requirements for embedded automotive and navigation systems, yet… can scale up to add voice-control capabilities to any Intel-based application. Embedded Linux is of several supported target (device) operating systems.

Prototyping and implementing speech-enabled applications can be complex, time-consuming and costly, especially if the development team is not already an expert with speech technology. To overcome this issue, ScanSoft has created the ASR Embedded Development System v1.0, a suite of rapid programming tools that speed the process of adding speech recognition to applications. Using the system, both expert and non-expert developers can quickly add accurate voice control capabilities to navigation, climate control and multimedia systems in cars, or speech-enable PC office applications, games, and educational titles.

The ASR-3200 and ASR Embedded Development System are new members of ScanSoft's family of speech solutions, which meet the demanding requirements of customers throughout the world, including ACUNIA, Citroen, Clarion, Eclipse, Microsoft, Panasonic, and Pioneer.

The ScanSoft ASR-3200 supports Microsoft Windows 2000/XP, Windows CE and Windows CE for Automotive, as well as Linux and QNX operating systems. Hardware support includes Hitachi SH3 and SH4, as well as Intel x86, StrongARM, and XScale chipsets. Supported languages include French, German, and US English with more languages in development. The ScanSoft ASR Embedded Development System v1.0 supports Microsoft Windows 2000.

 
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