PRESS RELEASE – March 12, 2004

Premier Assistive Technology, a world leader in assistive software for reading and writing, announces the release of its next generation Ultimate Talking Dictionary with its new INTERLINK technology.

Ken Grisham, President / CEO explains “Our Ultimate Talking Dictionary was already the most comprehensive PC-based dictionary on the market with its advanced features such as a fully integrated thesaurus, “power search” for partial word lookup and, of course, its reading capabilities. However, we knew we could make it even better by examining how people actually use traditional dictionaries, thesauruses and other related reference materials. We already had many of those features in UTD. In our ongoing research, we discovered that not only do persons often not know how to spell a word, but many times, may only have a concept or idea of a word they are looking for without actually knowing the exact word at all. That’s where our new INTERLINK technology comes into play”.

Steve Timmer, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, explains that “With our new INTERLINK technology, we have devised a methodology that allows a person to actually find a word when they don’t know how to spell the word or even know exactly what the word is.”

“To enable us to achieve these powerful search algorithms, all of the words in the UTD are now “interlinked” in a myriad of ways to allow cross-referencing on a variety of relational levels, so that it is easy to find a word just by knowing a concept or related idea. Getting a definition of the word is great, but being able to easy find a word that you don’t know is even better. Have you ever had a word at the tip of your tongue, but just could not get it out? How many times have you said, “Well, it’s one of those “things” when you couldn’t come up with the proper word?” This is a fairly common occurrence for many individuals. They know the concept or object, but the exact word escapes them. They know what it is and will know it when they see it or hear it, but they just need help locating it. A traditional dictionary could NEVER help you with this. But now with the Ultimately Talking Dictionary with INTERLINK, you can find something by just knowing a concept or idea then navigating through word relationships until you find the exact word you are looking for.”

"For example, let’s say you want to look up a type of “cloud”, but can’t think of the name of that type of cloud. You know what the cloud looks like, the shape, the color, etc, but you still only know that it is a cloud. Just enter the word “cloud” and it will give you not only the definition of a cloud, but it will also list all the different “types of” clouds (i.e. cumulus, cirrus, etc.). In another example, you can start by looking up “sky”; you can view all the parts of the sky such as “rainbow” and “clouds”. You can then select “clouds” and then view the types of clouds. Effectively, this means you can find a word in one of multiple ways by coming at it from several directions.

"After you have your list of related words, simply use your arrow keys to navigate through the list of “types”, “parts”, etc. and listen to pronunciation of the word describing the cloud that you want. Once you hear the word you’re looking for, press the ENTER key to look up the definition of that cloud to verify that this is indeed the type of cloud you were thinking about.”

Ken Grisham continues “One can quickly see that this new cognitive cross-referencing of words more readily fits the way that many minds work in language construction. This is a tremendous leap of functionality over anything traditional dictionaries have been able to provide”.

Recapping the other Major Ultimate Talking Dictionary features are:

Use with ANY other products!! The UTD is designed to be used with any other product: word processors, email, web pages, virtually anything that contains text.

Full Digital Voice Reading: All definition and word list can be read to you using high-quality digital voices.