Talk:ESS Technology

ESS PUBLIC COMPANY?
Can't find any info for that, so I changed page to reflect.

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MX, CX, LPC and SX are not compression technologies patented by Forrest Mozer. MX, CX and LPC were acquired by Sensory when they bought the MSP50 line from TI in late 2001. SX is an proprietary compression developed in-house by Sensory around 2003. - Eric. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.183.228.19 (talk) 04:06, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Fred Chan was not an origional founder of ESS. Forrest Mozer was and Fred was hired when the company decided to make the move from a software licensing model to a hardware selling model. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.177.107.218 (talk) 23:02, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

ESS in sound cards?
I was unable to find any proof that these guys are the same ESS that made the PC-soundcards, although some people told me this (might only be Commodore-lore though! ;-). If anyone finds any link between the two ESSes, please add that information! 02:12, 15 January 2008 DeeKay64

No, there's no connection at all, as far as I'm aware. ESS in regards to sound cards stands for Ensoniq Sound System. Lord Nightmare (talk) 04:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC) And they have nothing at all to do with Ensoniq, AFAIK.Lord Nightmare (talk) 08:01, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, I was wrong. ESS Systems (NASDAQ: ESST) was indeed founded by Forrest Mozer and Fred Chan in 1984, and is the same company as Electronic Speech Systems. Yes, they are responsible for the ESS Audiodrive series of sound card chips. The company still exists to this day. Lord Nightmare (talk) 04:17, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Professor Mozer's Patented Technology
Professor Mozer's technology first appeared in the Telesensory "Speech+" talking calculator, in a chip called the s14001a, the first self-contained speech synthesizer chip. This chip was also used in a few arcade games, and MAME emulates it. (I wrote the emulation :P ) After a three-year exclusive deal with Telesensory, Forrest Mozer sold a 3 year license to National Semiconductor, and they created another chip using mozer synthesis, the "Digitalker". At first, even then, all words were encoded by hand by Mozer in his basement, but in the third year of the license, National came up with a software encoder for it. After the exclusive license expired,(National seemed to extend a non-exclusive license for a year or so) Mozer licensed the technology to his sons at ESS. Later, after ESS collapsed? (not really sure this happened this way), Todd Mozer created Sensory Circuits Inc. and licensed his father's technology again, and later that company became Sensory Inc.

According to the Sensory Inc. history pages and old datasheets, they offsered four types of compression: and a PCM/LPC based system whose name I forget. Lord Nightmare (talk) 04:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * MX (I believe this compression is nearly identical to that used on the digitalker, with some minor coding changes and possibly some RLE. Its apparently used on some alarm systems and on the Vtech talking baseball/football cards.)
 * CX
 * SX

Sensory, Inc
Sensory Inc. produced the first commercial speech recognition and synthesis integrated circuit in the mid-90s, building on the earlier experience in ESS, where Todd had also worked. Nowadays their chips are used in products from Sony, JVC, Mitsubishi and Toshiba, ranging from toys like Furby, Scamps, I-Cybie and Amazing Amanda to handsfree car phones, remote controls, alarm clocks and car stereos. Sensory's latest technology called "Doc" produces highly realistic lip movement on a software avatar, a technique that will probably be the standard in MMORPGs in the not too distant future.

This needs to be in its own article, covering Sensory Inc. and not ESS. Lord Nightmare (talk) 08:01, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Reads like an Advert
Doesn't it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.110.54.243 (talk) 10:38, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Reverted. MER-C 08:56, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

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