30 September, 2004: PrairieComm is partnering with ART Advanced Recognition Technologies to enable integration of the smARTspeak product line into PrairieComm’s FronTier 3G reference phone platforms. ART software adds a complete suite of speech recognition capabilities including: speaker independent and speaker-dependent name dialing, continuous digit dialing, and command and control, to PrairieComm’s FronTier 3G reference phone platforms. The agreement allows FronTier customers to incorporate either smARTspeak, smARTspeak NG, smARTspeak XG, or smARTspeak XGT into their handset design.

In addition, PrairieComm and ART will work to integrate the smARTspeak product line into the appropriate user interfaces for the FronTier application framework. FronTier offers ODMs and OEMs a complete, integrated form factor hardware design and an integrated application framework that meets the demands of 3G operators worldwide. The multimedia-rich 3G reference phone platform also boasts a bill of materials similar to existing 2.5G handsets enabling mass-market 3G data phones. ART’s smARTspeak products will first be available on the FronTier110 platform, a UMTS/GSM/GPRS form factor platform for low-end multimedia feature phones.

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