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Our <span id="mail-highlight-id" style="background-color: yellow;"></span>apologies
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style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-GB">Press Release - Immediate </span></i><st1:place><st1:City><span
style=""><i style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Paris</span></i></span></st1:City><span
style=""><i style=""><span lang="EN-GB">, </span></i></span><st1:country-region><span
style=""><i style=""><span lang="EN-GB">France</span></i></span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style=""><i style=""><span lang="EN-GB">, </span></i></span><st1:date
month="1" day="18" year="2007"><span style=""><i style=""><span
lang="EN-GB">January, 18<sup>th</sup> 2007</span></i></span></st1:date><span
style=""><i style=""><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span style=""><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Distribution
Agreement<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span style=""><i style=""><span lang="EN-GB">ELRA
today signed a major Language Resources distribution agreement
with Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">ELRA and Beijing
Haitian Ruisheng Science
Technology Ltd today signed a major Language Resources distribution
agreement.
On behalf of ELRA, </span></span><st1:City><st1:place><span style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">ELDA</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> will
act as the distribution agency for Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science
Technology
Ltd and will incorporate to the ELRA Language Resources catalogue a
large number
of Speech resources designed and collected to boost Speech Synthesis
and Speech
Recognition. The resources cover mainly Mandarin Chinese with some
coverage of Korean
and Japanese languages.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">With over 60 new
resources, </span></span><st1:City><st1:place><span style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">ELDA</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> is
strengthening its position as the leading worldwide distribution
centre. With
this agreement Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd will get
more
visibility in particular on the European market.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span
style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">List
of available
Speech Resources: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span
style=""></span><a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/search_result.php?keywords=s0228"><span
style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">http://catalog.elra.info/search_result.php?keywords=s0228</span></span><span
style=""></span></a><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span
style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">List
of available
Written Corpora: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span
style=""></span><a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/search_result.php?keywords=w0045"><span
style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">http://catalog.elra.info/search_result.php?keywords=w0045</span></span><span
style=""></span></a><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"
style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span
style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">More
information on the ELRA catalogue, please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">Valérie Mapelli<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span style=""></span><a
href="mailto:mapelli@elda.org"><span style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">mapelli@elda.org</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="HTMLBody" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span
style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">More
information
on ELRA & ELDA, please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="ES-TRAD">Khalid Choukri<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span style=""></span><a
href="mailto:choukri@elda.org"><span style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="ES-TRAD">choukri@elda.org</span></span><span
style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Hélène Mazo<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span style=""></span><a
href="mailto:mazo@elda.org"><span style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">mazo@elda.org</span></span><span
style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span
style=""></span><st1:City><st1:place><span style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">ELDA</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">55-57, rue Brillat Savarin<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">75013 Paris (France)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Tel.:
+33 1 43 13 33 33<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Fax: +33 1 43 13
33 30<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">***
About ELRA ***<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">The
European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit making
organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the
mission of
providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting Human
Language
Technologies (HLT).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">To
find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site: </span></span><a
href="http://www.elra.info/"><span style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">www.elra.info</span></span><span
style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">***
About </span></span><st1:City><st1:place><span style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">ELDA</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> ***<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">The
Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is ELRA
operational body. </span></span><st1:City><st1:place><span style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">ELDA</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">
identifies, collects, markets, and distributes language resources,
along with
the dissemination of general information in the field of HLT. </span></span><st1:City><st1:place><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">ELDA</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> also
participates in some evaluation projects and campaigns, has
considerable
knowledge and skills in HLT applications and has participated in many
French,
European and international projects.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">To
find out more about </span></span><st1:City><st1:place><span style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">ELDA</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">, please
visit our web site: </span></span><a href="http://www.elda.org/"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">www.elda.org</span></span><span
style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">***
About Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd / </span></span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Kingline</span></span></st1:PlaceName><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><st1:PlaceName><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Data</span></span></st1:PlaceName><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><st1:PlaceType><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Center</span></span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> ***<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">With
rich experience in speech technology, the </span></span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Kingline</span></span></st1:PlaceName><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><st1:PlaceName><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Data</span></span></st1:PlaceName><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><st1:PlaceType><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Center</span></span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> has
concentrated our time working on speech data processing since 1998.
Till now,
500 hours high quality speech synthesis corpora (read by professional
speakers
in Chinese, Japanese, English and Spanish etc.) and 4,000 hours speech
recognition corpora (recorded with various microphones, desktop phones,
mobile
phones, and in-Vehicle phones) have been collected and processed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">To
find out more about Beijing Haitian Ruisheng Science Technology Ltd / </span></span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Kingline</span></span></st1:PlaceName><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><st1:PlaceName><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Data</span></span></st1:PlaceName><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><st1:PlaceType><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Center</span></span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">,
please visit our web site: </span></span><a
href="http://www.speechocean.com/indexe.asp" target="_blank"><span
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">www.speechocean.com/indexe.asp</span></span><span
style=""></span></a><span style=""></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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