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ANIMO LIMITED FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1998-0070

World's First Free Style Voice Verification Software From Fujitsu & ANIMO

- Accepts any speech, adaptable to ANY language, no registration needed -

Tokyo, April 14, 1998 -- Fujitsu Limited and ANIMO LIMITED (President: Ichiro Hattori, Office in Yokohama, Japan) launched a new breakthrough technology for voice recognition. Called "VoiceSync," the new product is the world's first true voice verification software that can verifies voices without any pre-registering of defined words or phrases.

VoiceSync has a wide range of applications; can be used in any language environment and is adaptable to any language. VoiceSync was jointly developed by ANIMO, the first venture company formed by Fujitsu, and Israel-based R&D laboratory of Comverse Technology Inc., the major voice-mail provider in the U.S.

Starting June 1, 1998, VoiceSync will be sold to corporate customers worldwide by Fujitsu and ANIMO.

VoiceSync Functions

• Speaker Verification: Voice verification function capable of verifying the "speaker" by analyzing freely spoken speech. No pre-registering of words or phrases is required.

• Voice Search: This function enables specific voice or speaker to be searched and located even from within a very large audio database.

VoiceSync Characteristics

• VoiceSync has the accuracy of 95% with 10 seconds of voice sampling. With 60 seconds of sampling, it reaches an accuracy level of 99%.
• VoiceSync accuracy is unaffected by the speaker's voice conditions.
• VoiceSync is language independent. Verification and search is possible regardless of the language spoken by the speaker.
• VoiceSync corresponds to voices via phone lines with high accuracy.
• Since VoiceSync is a software only technology, it does not require special hardware systems and is applicable to various systems.

System requirements

CPU:	Pentium II (150MHz or faster)
Operating System:	Windows95, Windows-NT
Memory:	32MB or more
Hard Disk:	1MB of free disk space

(* Microphone required - not included)

Format: CD-ROM

Sales: Beginning June 1, 1998

Sales price: 480,000 yen per unit (Excluding tax) (* Prices in local currencies may vary)

Sales target: For the next 3 years : 10,000 units

* All company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

ANIMO LIMITED

ANIMO LIMITED is the first venture company formed by Fujitsu Limited. ANIMO has consistently led the way in the development and sale of multimedia software specialized in voice and audio technologies, since its establishment in 1994. ANIMO technology covers a broad range; not only the basic field of audio management, but also a variety of fields such as health, medicine, welfare and entertainment.

ANIMO's technology has been officially recognized by public and private organizations. ANIMO was selected as the only company qualified for the field of audio processing in The First Creative Software Contest held by the IPA (Information Technology Promotion Agency, Japan) in 1996. It is also the first company to provide nation-wide telephone-based speaker ID verification technology for practical usage in telephone banking systems that Japanese banks have recently introduced for customers.

About Fujitsu Limited

Founded in 1935, Fujitsu Limited is an international leader in information technology, telecommunications, semiconductors and other electronics devices. The Fujitsu Group of over 400 technology, software and service companies posted global revenues of more than $36 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1997. Fujitsu can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.fujitsu.com/

Press and customer contacts:

ANIMO Limited 4F, Asahi-Seimei Yokohama Kannai Building, 2-27 Onoe-Cho, Naka-Ku, Yokohama-Shi, Kanagawa, 231-0015 Japan Tel : +81-45-663-8640 Fax : +81-45-663-8627 Ryuji Kuwana (email: mae01475@niftyserve.or.jp) Akira Suzuki (email: ggf01271@niftyserve.or.jp)

Press contact: Fujitsu Limited, Public Relations Makoto Saito, Scott Ikeda Tel : +81-3-3216-7952 Fax : +81-3-3216-9365