One Voice Technologies, Inc. (fka OVOE)

[Santa Barbara Broker]

Ugo22, you truly have no idea what you are talking about. ONEV's so called "patents" are of the most generic variety as to make them nearly worthless in my opinion. Google basically built their own state-of-the-art speech interface for phones and indexing audio text with the ability to improve exponentially because interactive data trains the algorithms over time, even with uploaded video search options.

There is nothing exceptionally novel about ONEV's patents. In my opinion Weber did no more than try to generically "patent" a basic template for a speech interface program back in 1999. The industrial equivalent of an individual attempting to patent the generic "shovel" or "rake" at the turn of the 20th century. Now you can call it a "fourth generation shovel" and decorate it with some fairly useless bells and whistles in ongoing patent claims, but at the end of the day, it's a shovel. A device to dig dirt. And patent courts and patent attorneys see this type of deal a mile away. There are literally millions of these type of generic patents cluttering up governement archives across the country and no matter what type of innovative tech you create you will inevitably stumble across dozens of them on your way to bringing it to market. It's a simple part of the process. Google looked at all existing tech before they started development and found nothing that was suitable. That means ONEV in case you are wondering as an initial patent search would have revealed their supposed "claims". They could have had ONEV's tech for practically nothing at that time, but went through the exceptionally more expensive and time consuming process of inventing and patenting their own instead. Care to guess why? Now you are trying to claim Google needs something ONEV has. What? They could have had the whole company for practically nothing if what you claim they "need" truly existed. Instead they went forward, spent a LOT more money than ONEV would have cost to buy outright and trampled over their patents.

Google's commitment to speech search is striking and will give MSFT and other real players a run for their money in other areas down the road. Nothing that ONEV does at this point is likely to earn them really significant, life altering revenue in this field in my opinion. Their patents in which you have placed all your faith and money got hung out to dry and shriveled in the wind like a cheap suit. And it may not be the last time, who knows? To add to your misery, Google has been in India since 2004 working on introducing phone voice search and retrival engines in a variety of fields besides 411. The have a huge office in Bangalore staffed with East Indians engineers working to improve the various dialect recognition and VR personal information retrival integration. They are just now perfecting and beginning to market tech that will coincide with ONEV's MV. Watch Mantec and MTNL carefully once the free trial ONEV party is over and it's time to get serious. Google could crush them in a day if it looked like there was any significant revenue to be earned. Of course if there were, they'd already be there trying wouldn't they?

You want to research a real patent? Not some one size fits all, generic wild card stab at catching a chunk of change down the road from a patent infringment suit? Here:

United States Patent #7,027,987, which details voice interface for a search engine. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has his name on the patent, along with other Google employees and inventors Alexander Mark Franz, Monika H. Henzinger, and Brian Christopher Milch. While the patent is replete with arcane vocabulary and schematics concerning voice-processing technology, it also has sections that clearly discuss the future: "The client devices may include devices such as mainframes, minicomputers, personal computers, laptops, personal digital assistants, telephones, or the like, (read MIDs, big guy) capable of connecting to the network. The client devices may transmit data over the network or receive data from the network via a wired, wireless, or optical connection."

Nice try chief, but ONEV missed the bus and Google's trampling of their generic patents and rapid spread to ALL fields of VR proves it. That and the fact they are already earning a TON of money at it despite ONEV supposedly "beating them to the punch" by nearly four entire years. Last guy to leave, turn out the lights. Party's over dude.

All the "super duper DD" above in my opinion. Have a nice day.

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