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| Ordinate Corporation Appoints Speech Industry Veteran SVP of Engineering |
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Menlo Park, CA - (March 15, 2004). Ordinate Corporation, the leading provider of automated spoken language assessments, announced
today that Matthew Lennig has been appointed Senior Vice President of Engineering.
Dr. Lennig will be responsible for managing the company’s engineering team and leading the development of Ordinate’s speech technology
and testing services. He brings to Ordinate extensive expertise from the speech technology industry.
Prior to joining Ordinate, Dr. Lennig led the engineering organization at Nuance Communications, first as Vice President and most
recently as Senior Vice President. In these roles, he was responsible for the development of all of Nuance’s software products and speech
technology. He led the development of Nuance’s speech recognition, speaker verification, and text-to-speech synthesis engines.
Dr. Lennig also spearheaded the development of the Nuance Voice Platform, an integrated environment for building and deploying VoiceXML
applications for automated voice dialog systems over the telephone.
Before Nuance, Dr. Lennig was Senior Manager, Speech Technology & Applications at Bell-Northern Research (BNR),
the R&D subsidiary of Nortel. At BNR he led the group that developed flexible vocabulary speech recognition technology as well as a
number of telephony-based speech recognition applications, including collect call and directory assistance automation.
He also led the speech recognition algorithm research team and the development team that created Nortel’s Network Applications Vehicle.
“Ordinate Corporation is in a unique position, having accomplished the difficult task of developing fully-automated spoken language tests
and services,” said Dr. Lennig. “I look forward to working with a talented group of engineers to continue Ordinate’s leadership in
technology innovation for spoken language testing.”
“Matt brings a long history of speech technology experience to Ordinate, in addition to a solid track record in managing a growing team
of engineers,” said Brent Townshend, CEO of Ordinate Corporation.
“I feel confident that Matt’s engineering leadership will power Ordinate’s momentum in the coming years.”
About Ordinate Corporation
Ordinate Corporation, a privately held company, was founded in 1996 to develop advanced language testing systems based on new techniques for using speech recognition to score spoken language proficiency. Ordinate combines recognition of spoken utterances with analysis of the manner of speaking to determine language proficiency and other speaker characteristics. Ordinate's augmented speech recognition technology, PhonePass㈢, sets a new standard in speed, accuracy, cost and convenience. For more information on Ordinate, please see Ordinate's website at www.ordinate.com.
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