In past announcements, the Empeg folks have referred to the voice-recognition software as being "licensed from a well-known Japanese company" or something like that. Otherwise, they've been mum about it.

So I'm reading this back issue of PC magazine (Jan 18th 2000), and there's a blurb on page 11 about a wrist-phone with voice recognition. Supposedly, you'll be able to compose e-mail on this thing. Hmmm... let's look at the particulars of this little wrist-phone:

- Runs on a 30mhz ARM processor.
- Voice recognition designed to work in a very small RAM footprint.
- Wrist phone is made by Samsung.

So I'm thinking, "hey, I'll bet this uses the same software". But this wrist phone licenses its software from Conversa, which is a US-based company, not a Japanese company. Darn. I thought I had a scoop.

Okay, Rob, spill it. Whose voice recognition software are you using?



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