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LANGTECH2002 OVERVIEW   
The LangTech 2002 industry forum took place on September 26 - 27 in

Berlin and was attended by some 330 representatives from over 30 countries

and across five continents. It featured presentations from over 70

companies from 20 nations. For an overview of the LangTech Programme

Highlights, please visit: www.lang-tech.org

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2. Success Story   
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2.1 FONSERVICE: THE FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG VOICE PORTAL

This success story features the launch of FAZ.NET Fonservice, the first

voice portal run by a major German daily newspaper, the Frankfurter

Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). It highlights the advantages of anytime, anywhere

access to speech-enabled information services - mobile, ubiquitous access

to high quality information. Fonservice uses ScanSoft automatic speech

recognition for the recognition of speaker-independent natural language

commands in the German language. Spoken input like "news", "traffic" or

"weather", give direct access to the relevant information, which ScanSoft?s

RealSpeak text-to-speech software delivers in a synthetic, almost natural

human voice output.
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2.2 SIMULTEXT AT THE VIENNA OPERA HOUSE

Today, the Vienna Staatsoper combines modern style with a long tradition

and is famous all over the world. Even as a traditional opera house, it

was looking for ways to attract a new and young audience to opera. In

particular, it was looking for a way to provide multilingual versions of

libretto text, intelligently and elegantly integrated into an opera house

environment. Ioan Holender, the director of the Vienna Staatsoper, found a

solution while visiting the USA. The SimulText® Electronic Libretto System,

which delivers simultaneous translations of libretto text in up to eight

languages, and which had been introduced at the Metropolitan Opera House in

New York City. Subsequently, the Vienna Staatsoper became the first opera

house in Europe to deliver a translated version of a libretto

electronically,

and the first in the world to provide it in more than one language.
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