LAS VEGAS-NDC Voice Corp.-an affiliate of Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, The National Dispatch Center Inc. and Oi Electric Co. Ltd.-announced it has developed a prototype voice pager that operates on standard FLEX paging channels to offer both alphanumeric paging and voice messaging services.
Called the Oi Electric Voice Pager, it uses Lernout & Hauspie’s low-bit-rate voice compression technology to store and replay voice messages inside a standard FLEX alpha pager.
It will be available in all major frequency bands and most major character sets, NDC said. The device is expected to be available in the United States by mid-1998, in Asia by the third quarter of next year, and in South America and Europe by the end of next year.
