Seminars Offered on Embedded Design with a Voice User Interface

Training targets developers implementing speech I/O through low cost chips

Santa Clara, CA - August 18, 2004....Sensory, Inc., the world's leading supplier of embedded speech technology today announced it is launching a series of training seminars to assist developers in using speech chips within their product designs. Four locations and dates have been announced:

• Hong Kong, China : September 23-24, 2004
• New York, NY: October 7-8, 2004
• Silicon Valley, CA : October 12-13, 2004
• Los Angeles, CA: October 28-29, 2004

Curriculum
The 2-day technical course will cover tradeoffs between IC and software based implementations of speech recognition, an overview of available technologies, and will provide examples and benefits from implementing a speech user interface. Substantial time will be spent learning tools and creating a prototype products. All course participants will create their own custom prototypes during the seminar, and should arrive with ideas for product prototypes. Specific topics covered will include:

• Overview and installation of tools
• Creating speech recognition sets with Sensory's Quick T2SI
• Creating music & speech synthesis
• Using the Phyton development environment for software coding and debugging
• Application & hardware concepts and guidelines
• Building a prototype

Over $8K of Tools Included
The seminar cost is $1995. All attendee's will receive the following products included free with the registration fee:

• Sensory RSC demo/development board hardware ($149 value)
• Phyton C-Compiler and Assembler ($1,195 value)
• Sensory Quick T2SI and Quick Synthesis vocabulary development tools ($5,000 value)
• Fluent Speech Embedded Software Development Kit ($1,995 value)

Discounts of $500/person are offered for early registration or for companies sending multiple employees.

Attendee Profile and Requirements
Attendees should have responsibility for product design, and be experienced with coding in C language. Previous knowledge/experience with hardware design, in-circuit emulation, and user interface application design will help. Attendees must bring a Windows laptop PC, with 20MB free disk, CD ROM drive, and USB port.