Fonix® Corporation the leading provider of natural-user interface technology and voice solutions for wireless and mobile devices, announced today it has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft® to provide the Fonix proprietary Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engine for the immensely popular Xbox(TM) video game system from Microsoft. Beginning in the second half of 2002, the highly-accurate Fonix U.S. English ASR for game developers will begin shipping to all Xbox game developers via the official Xbox Development Kit (XDK), Microsoft's primary game authoring tool. During the remainder of 2002, Fonix will provide ASR for Xbox in the following languages: U.K. English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. The Fonix-enabled XDK will allow developers to create games that recognize the user's voice, permitting the user to direct on-screen action, input information, and otherwise interact verbally with the game environment.
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