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Media X Technologies

The technologies represented within Media X will impact nearly every aspect of our lives over the next decade. But Media X is not just about the future, it is also influencing today’s products and applications. Through an established tradition of technology transfer at Stanford, in recent years Media X researchers have made key contributions in the development of leading commercial products including:

• Bell-Northern/Nortel: Interface for hand-held communication devices
• BMW: Voice-activated control software for BMW's 7-Series cars
• Command Audio: Conversational interface for digital radio broadcasts
• Compaq: Large screen computers
• Electronic switching device ("Total Access Port") for enabling disabled access to computers
• Extempo: Imp Character Technology
• EyeTech Digital LLC: Quickglance
• Finali: Conversational interfaces for customer care and corporate training
• General Magic: Voice user interfaces using automatic speech recognition
• General Motors: OnStar System
• HP: Human-computer interface for oscilloscopes and other instruments
• Immersion, Inc.: Haptic interface products
• LC Technologies, Inc.: Eyegaze system
• Microsoft: Actimate talking toys
• Microsoft: AutoPC
• Microsoft: Conversational interfaces for multi-task software
• Microsoft: Office 97
• NCast: high-resolution graphics with high-definition video for capture, distribution, and replay of high-quality multimedia productions
• NTT: Idea-Deriving Information Retrieval System
• OMRON: Voice user interfaces using automatic speech recognition
• Qwaq Forums: immersive environment for research collaboration
• Synapse Total Access System for disabled access to information
• US West: Voicemail interface
• Virtual Technologies, Inc.: Haptic interface products
• W3com: Internet and Web tools and performance instrumentation
• YY Software: Natural language technology for automatic email responses