e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

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Regarding "Smart Solutions":
Note when you scroll on e.Digital or Cquence the statement reads "Smart Solutions for a Digital World"

http://www.medscopeid.com/

http://www.volan.com/info/pr/2000-12-05-index.html

http://www.developer.ibm.com/

http://www.nlectc.org/SpecialAnnouncements/ritchie.html

http://industry.java.sun.com/javanews/stories/story2/0,1072,33182,00.html

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-346862.html" target="_new">http://srd.yahoo.com/goo/ibm+viavoice+smart/14/*http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-346862.html

http://houns54.clearlake.ibm.com/solutions/industrial/indpub.nsf/detailcontacts/key_ibm_automobile_n...

Tivoli..an IBM company:
http://www.tivoli.com/products/solutions/pervasive/pervasive_news_clips.html

Excerpt from shareholder letter:

The Future

Voice Technology Industry

Speech is the most natural way to interface with computers and portable products. In the future, keyboards and pen-based data entry systems will go away in favor of voice recognition and spoken data input. We continue to be more and more active in this industry. Through our membership in the VoiceTIMES Initiative, we are helping build the infrastructure and set standards for the voice technology market. Recent activities by the larger voice technology companies-Lernout & Hauspie's recent acquisitions of Dictaphone and Dragon Systems and IBM's strong positioning with their ViaVoice product line-indicate that the voice technology industry is beginning a strong period of growth. Cahners-InStat estimates that the voice technology market will reach $30 billion in the United States by 2006. Because of our pioneering role in developing portable digital voice recorders, our patented technologies including MicroOS, and our early work integrating portable voice recorders with the PC and the Internet, we believe we are well positioned to participate in this market as an OEM technology innovator and integrator.

Excerpt:
Application to Reporting

Breakthroughs in speech recognition technology will continue, driven in part by alliances among the major players. IBM, Intel, Philips, e.Digital, Norcom Electronics and Olympus have formed VoiceTIMES, whose goal is to coordinate the technical requirements needed for companies to build and deploy solutions using voice technologies and hand-held mobile devices. There's also the Voice XML Forum, which counts Novell, Qualcomm, Sprint and Sun among its members. This group envisions using Web site speech technology for customer service operations.

Speech recognition technology has the potential to affect all areas of the reporting profession. For example, some doctors are using portable versions of this technology. Nevertheless, because of problems with respect to accuracy, the services of a medical transcriptionist are still required for review and cleanup. And, as demonstrated by voice writers (formerly called stenomaskers), speech recognition can work in the legal setting. However, this is clearly an example of people harnessing the technology rather than technology replacing people. The speaker-dependent system requires and is trained by an experienced, competent voice writer. Looking more directly at stenographic reporting, speech recognition may allow reporters to edit their transcripts while still taking down the testimony, control the basic functions of their software programs and manage ancillary court reporter functions, such as marking information useful for Reporter Electronic Data Interchange as it appears in the proceedings with "voice annotations."

http://www.ncraonline.org/jcr/0011/0011_03.htm