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September 20, 2005 12:43 PM US Eastern
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.tmp) SPIRIT DSP Powers
The Voice Quality in 3G Voice/Video Phones for T-Mobile, Orange and
Vodafone
LONDON
& MOSCOW--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 2005--SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com/voip), a leading embedded voice
and VoIP software products provider, is announcing SPIRIT embedded
voice engine is inside HTC Universal, the world's first 3G Video
Telephony smartphone based on Windows Mobile 5.0, to deliver
superior voice quality in full-duplex voice and video conferencing
in T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone and other mobile networks.
SPIRIT DSP continues to expand its leading market position of
highest possible voice quality in any IP network on any platform PC,
PDA and 3G mobile. HTC Universal, the revolutionary *mini-laptop*,
tri-band GSM/UMTS PDA/phone, will be distributed globally with
mobile operators in Europe, North America, and Asia and is already
marketed in Europe branded as, among others, MDA Pro by T-Mobile,
i-mate JASJAR by Vodafone, and SPV M5000 by Orange UK. Hundreds of
thousands of 3G Video Telephony devices are equipped with the
SPIRIT's embedded voice engine, and more than 4.9m handsets are
planned to be shipped in 2005, so the wireless people can now
benefit with the unmatched voice quality powered by SPIRIT.
Licensed by HTC, SPIRIT embedded voice engine, integrating the
cutting-edge voice enhancement products including Acoustic Echo
Cancellation, Noise Suppression, Automatic Gain Control and more, is
used to ensure the best voice quality in a variety of new branded 3G
communication equipment. Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC)
Corporation is one of the largest Windows CE devices OEMs/ODMs
chosen by Microsoft to partner in hardware platform development for
the Windows CE operating system. HTC is the biggest 3G handset OEM
in China.
"High quality and reliability of voice enhancement provided by
SPIRIT were a deciding factor for adoption of SPIRIT's solution,"
said Lotus Chen, HTC Vice President. "Actually, none of SPIRIT's
competitors was able to deliver comparable performance. With
SPIRIT's technologies and technical support, our engineers
successfully delivered 3G Video Telephony solution to the market. It
was a challenge, but it gave us mutual positive experience. We at
HTC highly appreciate SPIRIT's great software and the support we
enjoyed. We are excited to see SPIRIT's contribution to our next
products."
"Collaboration with HTC let us deliver the best possible voice
quality to next-generation wireless devices worldwide under top
telecom brands. It is another validation of SPIRIT's leadership in
high quality voice engine solutions," said Andrew Sviridenko,
SPIRIT's founder and chairman. "It is also a new vivid proof of
SPIRIT voice engine's capabilities to efficiently solve the voice
communication tasks on any platform, whether it is PC, web or
wireless. PC customers already benefit from the superior
enterprise-grade voice quality powered by SPIRIT software, and now
we are happy to deliver it to 3G mobile users all over the world as
well."
One of the components of SPIRIT embedded voice engine is
RealDuplex(TM), a world's leading solution for extremely efficient
both echo cancellation and noise elimination in hands-free and
headset-free environments, allowing people to speak and be heard
simultaneously in true full-duplex mode. Successful 10-year
experience in embedded voice software development enables SPIRIT to
provide the highly optimized solutions, with decreased power
consumption level and CPU load at no compromise of the quality.
About SPIRIT
Moscow-based SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com/voip) employs 120 professionals,
has been in international software licensing business since 1992.
SPIRIT is a bootstrap and has been profitable for 12 years. SPIRIT
focus is communication, speech and VoIP software products and today
SPIRIT counts among its clients Agere, Atmel, Flextronics, Ericsson,
Furuno, HTC, Hyundai, JRC, Kyocera, LG, Macromedia, Marconi, NEC,
Nortel Networks, Oracle, Panasonic, Philips, Polycom, Samsung,
Siemens, Texas Instruments and Toshiba, among 200+ other
communication OEMs and software vendors. Through the brand names
SPIRIT communication software is used in over 70 countries and
powers 50 million voice channels. SeeStorm is SPIRIT subsidiary for
synthetic video conferencing. In 2005, SPIRIT DSP has been honored
as one of the 'Fierce 15' top VoIP companies, and one of the 'Pulver
100' growth companies that represent the future of IP
communications.
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