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1985-1987

Speaker-dependent Japanese word recognizer developed jointly with Professor Kohonen at Helsinki University of Technology using a neural network approach.


1987-1989
 
Development of speaker-dependent Japanese syllable recognizer.


1989-1992
 
Telephone extension directory system developed jointly with KDD Laboratories using speaker-independent hidden Markov model (HMM) technology.


1991-1995
 
The AK2312 voice compression LSI developed jointly with Asahi Kasei Microsystems using the SB-CELP algorithm developed by L&H Speech Products.

Development of the MMEV voice compression algorithm.


1996-1998
 
The AK2316 speaker-independent/speaker-dependent voice recognition chip developed jointly with Asahi Kasei Microsystems.


Aug 1998
 
Prototyping of VORERO voice recognition middleware.


Feb 1999
 
Release of VORERO 1.0.


May 2000
 
Prototyping of MMEV voice compression and decompression middleware.


Aug 2000
 
Launch Speech Solutions


Jan 2001
 
Release of MMEV 2.0.


Oct 2002
 
Release of Hands free middleware


Oct 2002
 
Release of VOCLE (Hands-free middleware)


Apr 2004
 
Release of VOStalk (TTS middlware)


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