ART Advanced Recognition Technologies announced that it has ported its latest speech recognition solution, the smARTspeak XG, to the OMAP™ family of high-performance, ultra-low power application processors from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI).

From the leading independent producers of speech and natural handwriting recognition software, the smARTspeak XG brings phonemic recognition to wireless mobile devices for the first time. Providing embedded, speaker independent name dialing and other command functions, the XG is an evolution of the smARTspeak NG previously ported to the OMAP platform.

TI's widely adopted, scalable OMAP platform delivers optimal performance and power consumption to basic, multimedia-enhanced and high-end 2.5G and 3G wireless devices. Since the smARTspeak XG's embedded software solution was especially designed to provide increasing functionality within the same resource-limited environment, it was perfectly placed to help the OMAP platform address the challenges of running the advanced applications demanded by next-generation mobile phones, smartphones and other mobile Internet appliances.

"Mobile device users will enjoy a greater degree of freedom with advanced speech and handwriting recognition such as that provided by ART," said Paul Werp, worldwide director of marketing for TI's OMAP platform. "Speech and handwriting recognition technology on 2.5 and 3G mobile devices will enhance the way mobile users communicate. ART's smARTspeak XG's embedded solution using TI's OMAP platform will significantly assist in differentiating device functionality."

"We're sure that advanced device manufacturers and application developers will quickly discover the dynamic opportunities that ART's innovative smARTspeak XG opens up to the high performance of TI's OMAP platform," said Eran Aharonson, ART's President. "With our experience of seamlessly integrating ART's embedded software into TI's leading wireless platform - and the fact that it was specifically designed to support the same popular operating systems such as Symbian OS, Microsoft Windows CE; Palm OS - they can now take even fuller advantage of the powerful new technology in the OMAP platform's open, easy-to-use programming environment."