e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

[doni]

FWIW....

for anyone interested....
I've been trying to get an angle on Pronounced Technologies and where their tech is born.


this is what I come up with so far....
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"cumulative Company Index of Speech Recognition Update since 1994"

http://www.tmaa.com/sru/companies.htm

Pronounced Technologies (formerly Audio Navigation Systems, Inc.),

haven't done much on the former yet

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Matched a long shot " Audionav system" to the company Amerigon, Inc. through this link.
http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/cbowww/AI/TEXTS/SPEECH1/ai.doc

Matched Zaya Younan,(a former) president and chief executive officer of Pronounced Technologies, ..... to Amerigon, Inc...... as a vice president for Amerigon, Inc... through the following link.
http://www.calstart.org/news/features/12019306.html

Nohing more on this guy that I could find....however, he was with Pronounced Technologies at the time their smart chip was licensed to Fujitsu10
http://www.aldrichpr.com/PRONOUNCED_FILES/Releases,%20Pronounced/smart_chip_31_MAR_99.PDF


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Amerigon, Inc... and a company by the name of... Yazaki Corporation.. form a joint venture company called IVS, Inc.

reading through ...see history this link.
http://ivs.ware.net/html/AboutUs/index.asp


IVS, Inc... " developer of interactive voice technology-based products for the automotive industry, announces that its premiere product, Avstar, will launch in the second quarter of 1998. As the world's first GPS-equipped hands-free, eyes-free, transportable interactive voice navigation device for cars and trucks, Avstar is poised to lead the vehicle navigation market in affordability, portability and safety."

This system utilizes a proprietary CDROM of pre-recorded, WAV-based voice guidance files matched to street mapping.....

L&H are behind... IVS, Inc./Avstar... for speach and voice recogniation
http://ivs.ware.net/html/AboutUs/TechnologyPartners.asp

doni