Fonix Speech Group

Infobox_Company
company_name = Fonix Speech, Inc.
company_
company_type = Public (OTCBB: [http://www.smallcapcenter.com/snapshot_quote.asp?component=compinfo.asp&page=snapshot.asp&ticker=FNIX] )
company_slogan = Freedom of Speech
foundation = 1994
location = Sandy, Utah, USA
key_people = CEO: Tom Murdock, CFO: Roger Dudley
products = speech synthesis, speech recognition
homepage = [http://www.fonixspeech.com/ www.fonixspeech.com]

Fonix Speech, Inc., offers “voice technology solutions” for mobile phone and wireless devices, interactive video games, toys, appliances, computer telephony systems and vehicle telematics. Fonix speech solutions are based upon the Company’s proprietary neural network-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) and its industry leading Fonix DECtalk text-to-speech (TTS). Fonix speech technology is user-independent, meaning there is no voice training involved.

Product Applications

Fonix works with application developers and equipment manufacturers to speech enable devices and systems, resulting in voice-based user interfaces that increase convenience and simplify functionality. Fonix technology supports multiple operating systems and hardware platforms and excels on embedded systems, where memory and operating power are at a premium. Fonix technology is optimized for noisy environments and is available in more than a dozen highly intelligible TTS languages and more than 10 speaker-independent ASR languages.

Product Implementation

Fonix speech recognition technologies are currently available for many major products and systems, including Microsoft Xbox and Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 2, PlayStation3, PC, Epson semiconductor chips, PocketPC and Smartphone devices and others. Casio and other Asian manufacturers currently offer several handheld electronic dictionaries featuring Fonix text-to-speech. And a number of mid-sized businesses utilize Fonix’s telephony product as a 24-hour speech recognition telephone attendant.

Company Information

Founded in 1994, Fonix Corporation is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with offices in Maynard, Massachusetts; Seoul, South Korea; Fukuoka, Japan; and Atlanta, Georgia. Fonix has an international sales team to serve customers and partners in Europe, the UK and Asia.