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T-mobile Austria signs agreement for joint Philips and One Voice
on future wireless products
February 25, 2003
Philips Electronics’ business unit Speech Processing, a provider
of speech recognition technology, and One Voice Technologies, developer
of 4th Generation voice solutions for the Wireless, Telematics,
TV/Internet appliance and Interactive Multimedia markets announced
that T-Mobile Austria has signed an exclusive agreement to utilize
MobileVoice in the T-Mobile Future House, a product center, showcasing
T-Mobile’s upcoming wireless subscriber services including 3G products,
located in Vienna, Austria.
“Our T-Mobile Future House is Europe’s first comprehensive showcase
for the real applications of the mobile future with 3G. Exciting
new applications can be seen in action: One of them is MobileVoice”,
said Dr. Harald Stadlbauer, responsible for new business at T-Mobile
Austria.
“This agreement is a major step forward in our penetration into
the European markets,” said Dean Weber, president and CEO at One
Voice. “It is a great opportunity to work with T-Mobile Austria,
one of the industry’s leading global wireless providers. We have
just completed the installation of MobileVoice at the T-Mobile Product
Center for all customers to see. We look forward to working closely
with Philips on launching the industry’s first mobile Voice-to-Text
SMS and E-mail messaging solution. A launch date is to be decided.
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"The successful partnership of One Voice and Philips Speech Processing
will enable us to feature the industry’s latest and most revolutionary
development: the very first voice-to-text SMS solution!", said Marcel
Wassink, Managing Director, Philips Speech Processing.
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