SALT LAKE CITY, UT (May 31, 2001) -- Fonix® Corporation (OTC BB: FONX), a leading provider of natural-user interface technology and voice solutions for wireless and mobile devices, today announced that they are partnering with Compaq and Intel to port the FAAST® (Fonix Accelerated Application Solutions Technology) Speech Implementation Framework to Windows on the Intel® ItaniumTM microprocessor and Compaq’s 64-bit ProLiant Servers.
The architecture features of the Itanium processor provide increased performance, reliability and scalability for applications and solutions in a number of enterprise and vertical market segments. It enables powerful servers and high-performance workstations to address the increasing demands that the Internet economy places on e-Businesses.
Compaq's TrailBlazer program, featuring the 64-bit Itanium-based ProLiant server, will help enable the application development community and early adopter companies to realize the benefits of the emerging 64-bit architecture for running Microsoft's 64-bit Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition and Linux-based applications. The program is designed to bring hardware and software development communities together to advance new and emerging solutions for 64-bit industry-standard computing.
"As an early adopter of Compaq's Itanium-based server platform, Fonix is porting the FAAST (Fonix Accelerated Application Solutions Technology) Speech Implementation Framework to Windows on the IA-64 microprocessor. Fonix currently supports speech implementation on multiple hardware and OS platforms including x86, Sparc, Linux, and Solaris. Due to the unique architectural benefits the IA-64 employs, Fonix expects to realize further efficiencies in our industry-leading channel capacity and reductions in speech synthesis latency from Itanium's large memory caching properties," said D. Lynn Shepherd, Vice President of Technology, Fonix Corporation. "We are pleased to partner with Compaq in offering Itanium support and to offer our customers expanded microprocessor options for their voice solutions needs."
About Fonix Corporation
Fonix Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: FONX) is a leading provider of natural-user interface technology solutions for wireless and mobile devices, Internet and telephony systems, and vehicle telematics. Leading chip manufactures, independent software and hardware vendors, and Internet content and service providers incorporate Fonix technology to provide their customers with an easier and more convenient user experience. Fonix products, including Text-To-Speech (TTS), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Handwriting Recognition (HWR), provide the most natural communication solutions available.
