SALT LAKE CITY –(Business Wire)– Feb. 22, 2006 — Fonix Speech Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fonix Corp. (OTCBB: FNIX) specializing in embedded speech interfaces for mobile devices, handheld electronic products, and systems and processors, announces its Fonix DECtalk text-to-speech (TTS) on three new electronic dictionaries marketed in Korea and manufactured by Casio Computer Co. Ltd., a leading device manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo. Casio estimates the total volume of the electronic dictionary market in Korea for 2006 will be more than 1.2 million. Fonix will receive unit royalties from each device sold.

Fonix DECtalk TTS is embedded on Casio’s new EW series of electronic dictionaries, which will be available in Korea via local-area retailers at the end of February. The devices are targeted to university students, junior high and high school students, and businesspersons seeking to improve their foreign language skills. Fonix’s TTS-based solution “speaks” to the device user, demonstrating how to pronounce English words or phrases using Fonix text-to-speech.

“Casio has done a great job of marketing their electronic dictionaries to students and others hoping to improve their language skills,” says Walt Nawrocki, senior VP and GM, Fonix Speech. “Based upon the popularity of speech-enabled Casio dictionaries in Japan, Fonix hopes the devices will quickly catch on in the Korean market as well. Fonix is pleased to be Casio’s TTS of choice and looks forward to continuing our relationship.”

For more information about Fonix speech solutions, visit www.fonix.com, or call 801-553-6600 and say “Sales.”

About Casio

Casio Computer Co. Ltd. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of consumer electronics products and business equipment solutions. Since its establishment in 1957, Casio has strived to realize its corporate creed of “creativity and contribution” through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products. Today, Casio’s offerings include timepieces, digital cameras, cellular phones, electronic dictionaries, calculators, musical instruments, system equipment, and electronic components such as LCDs.

About Fonix DECtalk

DECtalk offers the smallest memory footprint for a multilanguage, full-dictionary TTS in the industry. Fonix TTS is specifically engineered for small devices and provides a standard of intelligible and natural sound quality that surpasses competitive offerings. Version 4.6.4 supports the widest array of hardware platforms and operating systems on the market, and offers nine voices (four female, four male and one child’s voice) and seven languages (U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian and Latin American Spanish, French, German and Italian).

About Fonix Speech Inc.

Fonix Speech Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fonix Corp. that currently offers voice technology solutions for mobile/wireless devices; interactive videogames, toys and appliances; computer telephony systems; the assistive market and automotive telematics.

About Fonix

Fonix Corp., based in Salt Lake City, is an innovative communications and technology company that provides integrated telecommunications services and value-added speech technologies through Fonix Telecom Inc., LecStar Telecom Inc. and Fonix Speech Inc. The combination of interactive speech technology and integrated telecommunications services allows Fonix to provide customers with comprehensive cost-effective solutions to enhance and expand their communications needs. Visit www.fonix.com for more information, or call 801-553-6600 and say “Sales.”

Statements released by Fonix that are not purely historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the “Safe Harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the company’s expectations, hopes, intentions and strategies for the future. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties that may affect the company’s business prospects and performance. The company’s actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Risk factors include general economic, competitive, governmental and technological factors as discussed in the company’s filings with the SEC on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K. The company does not undertake any responsibility to update the forward-looking statements contained in this release.

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Hong Kong/Munich, 20 February 2006 – Cleverlearn Ltd., a leading global provider of online English learning solutions, has released 3 Oxford dictionaries through Clicktionary (www.clicktionary.com). The release of these dictionaries is part of the licensing agreement between Cleverlearn and Oxford University Press (OUP).

Clicktionary is a leading dictionary and translation software. The 3 Oxford dictionaries now available for the first time through Clicktionary are:

> Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish)
> Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (English-French)
> Oxford Portuguese Minidictionary (English-Portuguese)

A whole range of Oxford dictionaries will be available very soon through Clicktionary. These include the highly recommended Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (English-German). The latter contains in-depth coverage of all the latest vocabulary from all areas of life today, including information on aspects of life and culture in the German- and English-speaking worlds.

Other forthcoming dictionaries are: Oxford Dictionary of English, Concise Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary, Oxford Russian Dictionary, Oxford-River Books English-Thai Dictionary and Oxford Starter Japanese Dictionary.

“Oxford University Press is pleased to be in partnership with Cleverlearn to bring the world’s most authoritative dictionaries to thousands of Clicktionary users around the world”, says Ann Lawson, OUP Senior Rights Manager. “We believe that Clicktionary is a reliable translation tool. It is equipped with user-friendly features that will make our comprehensive content more accessible to even more people”.

“This licensing agreement with Oxford University Press is a great honour for Cleverlearn,” says Heinrich Pletschacher, European Country Manager of Cleverlearn in Munich. “This means we can offer our users easy access to first rate translation content.”

About Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship and education in its worldwide publishing. The preparation of dictionaries and reference books, of all types and for all ages, has been a central part of its activities for more than one hundred years. For more information, visit www.oup.com.

About Cleverlearn

Founded in 1999 in Santa Monica, California, USA, Cleverlearn Ltd. is a leading provider of English learning solutions focused on addressing the problems that today’s professionals have to hurdle in picking up English as a second language. Cleverlearn leverages the widespread use of technology in modern everyday life by working across multiple platforms - from web to mobiles to PDAs - to deliver and reinforce English instruction. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong to be closer to the growing Asian markets, while it continues to serve customers worldwide with its cutting-edge learning tools and services. For more information, visit www.cleverlearn.com

Source - http://openpr.com/news/5260.html

Etymologies are not definitions; they’re explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago…

In other words, word origins or word history - English. So, from the Online Etymology Dictionary, one etymology of the word ‘etymology’ is here. A sample:

1398, from Gk. etymologia, from etymon “true sense” (neut. of etymos “true,” related to eteos “true”) + logos “word.” In classical times, of meanings; later, of histories. Latinized by Cicero as veriloquium.

The online etymology dictionary passed the recursion test with flying colors.

Sassy singer Beyonce hasn’t just made her mark on the music biz – she’s also changed our language.

We’ve heard a rumour her trademark word, ‘bootylicious’ has made it into the dictionary.

But bootiful Beyonce isn’t too chuffed about the whole saga, according to gossips at IOL.

“I’m not very proud of that. It’s in the dictionary - it’s crazy,” says the Destiny’s diva.

“I wrote the song, but I wish there was another word I could have come up with if I was going to have a word in the dictionary.

“I don’t know what it says (officially) in the dictionary, but my definition (of bootylicious) is beautiful, bountiful and bounce-able.”

“Bounce-able”? It looks like she may have coined another word there.

Check out Beyonce’s Book of B Words – in a shop near you… never, we hope.

Source - http://www.megastar.co.uk/musicnews/news/2006/02/13/

pcNames, a domain registrar and provider of deleted domains search engine, today announced that it has created 3-character and dictionary domain search tools.

The company said that, there are 40,000 3-character and 5,000 dictionary domains listed in the search tool. These lists are made up of all available domains including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, and .us. Since manual searching through every word in the dictionary or every possible 3-character combination to find an available one is a tedious endeavor, pcNames.com has developed and released the complete list of all available 3-character and dictionary domains.

Additionally, pcNames has performed other updates such as a word variation tool and made key changes to the shopping cart. The word variation option searches for the requested keyword along with all variations of the word entered by the user.

Source - http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/

Knowledge Factory, ETL Solutions and Quidity have joined together to build a comprehensive National Address Dictionary (NAD). It will be called the Alliance NAD and is a comprehensive list of physical addresses that have been verified as correct and accurate. The physical addresses have been ascribed to their corresponding cadastres (erven), thereby allowing subscribers the ability to accurately locate the properties on a map.

“A complete NAD allows any organisation - public or private - access to the physical location of any valid address in South Africa,” says John Sikiotis, managing director of Knowledge Factory.

“Benefits of this include improved service delivery from a public perspective and an accurate understanding of where customers reside from a private industry perspective, resulting in reduced marketing expenditure, an improved understanding of customer behaviours and a robust framework for matters of legal compliance, e.g. FICA,”

Knowledge Factory primarily brings an experienced “analytics” team comprising statistical, spatial, data warehousing and data mining skills to the foray, as well as a variety of important datasets, such as a national Cadastral Address Database (CAD) of around 6.6 million records; an existing NAD of approximately 3.9 million records (4.3 million including extrapolated addresses), a comprehensive national vector map set with numerous users providing constant feedback, 12 years of deeds office transaction data; and a range of marketing insights related products such as ClusterPlus*, MarketPlus* and CensusPlus*.

ETL has expertise in all aspects of the data collection, processing and validation processes; as well as the ‘Superbase’ – a database of 20-million plus consumer records.

Quidity is a company that specialises in the development of data processing applications in a spatial environment. As such, it has particular expertise in the creation and validation of the NAD data in the spatial context.

Source - http://www.marketingweb.co.za/fast_news/909992.htm

Mid Valley Elementary third-graders received a surprise gift recently when they were given student dictionaries by volunteers from Sprint.

Betty Osborne and George Spontak, representatives from Sprint, visited all three third grade classes to present the children with their free dictionaries.

During their visit, Osborne and Spontak helped the students explore the books by conducting a word scavenger hunt. As the children paged through their dictionaries, they excitedly discovered more than just words — the books are also filled with maps, illustrations of the planets, sign language, Braille, and other fascinating tidbits of knowledge.

Sprint employees regularly hold community fund-raisers to support projects such as the dictionary give-away.

Third graders throughout the Hood River district and the Columbia Gorge will receive dictionaries.

For many of these students, it may be the first reference book in their personal libraries.

Source - http://www.hoodrivernews.com/News%20stories/013_WW_2.htm

Current info about electronic dictionary is not always the easiest thing to locate. Fortunately, this report includes the latest electronic dictionary info available.

George W Bush can’t say ‘nuclear’. Does it matter? He is the most powerful person in the world. But he is ridiculed for his vocabulary and use of words. Would you want power as well as respect? With the daily use of a good electronic dictionary you will begin to improve your pronounciation as well as your vocabulary.

From my research I know that with the latest sound technology pronounciations of difficult words are much more audible and copiable. The searches are that much quicker than they used to be and the handheld electronic dictionary now sits snugly in your pocket, unlike your old style paper dictionary.

There was a little boy who asked for a hamburger but he was never able to have it cooked the way he liked or with different kinds of filling due to his limited vocabulary. That little boy was all of us. Most of us are still unable to ask for things exactly the way we want them.

If you are like me and live in a foreign country, not having enough words to express yourself becomes even more problematic.

Sometimes the most important aspects of a subject are not immediately obvious. Keep reading to get the complete picture.

After consulting my paper dictionary I found out that microphone is spelt the same way as in English. I went up to the shopping assistant and asked for a ‘microphone’ for my PC in my best spanish accent but he didn’t understand me. I then whipped out my PDA and got it to say the word ‘microphone’ to him as a test. I thought then that these things really work.

An electronic dictionary can now be used when ever you need it as they are small, fast and and audible. They can be standalone handheld, or downloaded to your PDA and cellphone or you can use free online dictionaries.

I suggest you try out some of the free resources available that can be found on the internet. Download some free, shareware or trial software and use a few of the free online dictionaries. There are dictionaries available for topics such as languages, legal, medical, science, technical, business and math to name a few.

If you have just 7 minutes a day, use an electronic dictionary. Then you can build an executive vocabulary that grants you instant credibility and persuasive power by knowing exactly what words to say and when to say them.

Of course, it’s impossible to put everything about electronic dictionary into just one article. But you can’t deny that you’ve just added to your understanding about electronic dictionaries, and that’s time well spent.

Daniel J Lesser is the creator of best-electronic-dictionary.com. A whole world awaits with the right words in your handsFind out how you can expand your horizons at www.best-electronic-dictionary.com.

View their website at: http://www.best-electronic-dictionary.com

dlesser1972@yahoo.co.uk

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Heinle Picture Dictionary Interactive CD-ROM recognized among Best
Instructional Solutions for English Language Acquisition

BOSTON, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Thomson ELT, a leading provider
of materials for English language teaching and learning throughout the world
and part of the Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), announced its
selection as a finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association’s
21st Annual Codie Awards for The Heinle Picture Dictionary Interactive CD-ROM.
The Codie Awards is the only peer recognition program in the software and
information industry providing a unique opportunity for companies to compete
for the praise of their competitors.
The Heinle Picture Dictionary’s 124 richly illustrated lessons, complete
with audio support for all words, are fully searchable and easy to navigate.
Learners at various language levels can explore the vocabulary and contexts
most important to them as they build fluency. The program offers a wealth of
activity types that practice all skill areas at levels ranging from basic word
searches to higher-level dictation exercises.
“We are honored that The Heinle Picture Dictionary Interactive CD-ROM was
selected as a finalist for the 2006 Codie Awards,” said Sherrise Roehr,
Executive Editor for Dictionaries and Adult ESL, Thomson ELT. “Being
recognized by our peers in the Best Instructional Solution: English Language
Acquisition category is truly gratifying.”
Thomson ELT shares top honors with four others in the English Language
Acquisition category. The 2006 Codie Awards winners will be announced at a
gala event on May 16, 2006 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco,
California.
“We founded the Codie Awards 21 years ago so that the pioneers of the
then-nascent software industry could evaluate and honor each other’s work,”
said Ken Wasch, SIIA President. “The Codies have grown along with the markets
it represents, and today competition is fiercer than ever. That makes
selection as a Codie finalist a true achievement, and all the companies on
this year’s list should feel justifiably proud of their recognition.”

About The Thomson Corporation and Thomson ELT
The Thomson Corporation the Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC),
with 2004 revenues of $8.10 billion, is a global leader in providing
integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.
Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to
more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial
services, higher education, reference information, corporate e-learning and
assessment, scientific research and healthcare. With operational headquarters
in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 40,000 employees and provides
services in approximately 130 countries. Thomson ELT is a leading provider of
materials for English language teaching and learning throughout the world. It
publishes under the brands of Thomson, Thomson ELT, and Thomson Heinle. You
can learn more about ELT Advantage and Thomson ELT by visiting us on the web
at http://elt.thomson.com.

SOURCE Thomson Learning
Web Site: http://elt.thomson.com

Powerful, Intuitive, and Easy-To-Use Language Tool Features Authentic, Human Chinese Voice Pronunciation and Pinyin (Chinese Phonetic) Displays
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — 02/15/2006 — BBKUSA, a division of BBK Educational Electronics Co., today announced its new AM99 handheld electronic English/Chinese talking dictionary. The AM99 is available today for $99.99 at www.bbkusa.com.

The AM99 was designed to efficiently help English speakers learn to understand and speak Chinese. It provides accurate translation and authentic pronunciation in both Mandarin and American English — featuring a friendly pre-recorded human voice. The dictionary also provides Pinyin (Chinese phonetic) displays along with the Chinese characters. It features bi-directional English/Chinese dictionaries, idiom dictionaries, comprehensive grouped vocabulary, and common dialogue phrases for many situations. In addition, it offers five specialty dictionaries for biology, computers, business, medicine, and Chinese medicine. The AM99 also provides supplemental information to help users increase familiarity with Chinese expressions and day-to-day conversation, including examples, illustrations, phrases, usage, patterns, and antonyms.

“Business, education, and tourism industries between the United States and the ‘Greater China’ region are at its highest levels in history,” said Jin Pi at BBKUSA. “Chinese is an important language in the global economy. We invested two years of research, design, and voice recording to add a ‘human touch,’ which expedites the confidence and ability for business professionals, students, and tourists to learn and speak Chinese.”

The pocket-size AM99 features an easy-to-read LCD screen, QWERTY keyboard, and built-in speaker. The user interface and user manual are provided in English. Also, included in its package are a Daily Conversational Chinese book to help ease the learning process, travel case to protect the AM99, and headphones to learn in privacy.

ABOUT BBK ELECTRONICS CORP., Ltd.

BBK Electronics Corp., Ltd. is an award-winning, ISO9001 certified consumer electronics manufacturer dedicated to enriching people’s digital lifestyles with technology and innovation. With three state-of-the-art factories in Guangdong, China, and many distribution and service centers around the world, the BBK network employs a global workforce of more than 15,000 people.

BBK Educational Electronics Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of BBK Electronics Corp., Ltd. The company develops innovative electronic products to make learning easy and fun. Its product lines include electronic dictionaries, portable recorders, and interactive pen-based books.

source: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=109948