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May 22, 2008
STR's StarCaster® technology received the important
distinction of “Innovative Excellence: Process or Product”
at the Vancouver Island Advanced
Technology Centre (VIATeC) awards. The award honored STR’s
proprietary StarCaster® Text-to-Speech
process, a technology incorporated into all of STR’s
aviation and automated broadcast-related products and services.
The StarCaster® technology has
become a benchmark for high quality voice output, raising the
bar in not just the Aviation industry but also the text-to-speech
industry in general. STR’s ATIS
System, which uses the StarCaster®
technology, has been nominated for various awards in the recent
past, in part due to StarCaster®’s essential and unequaled
process. More on the StarCaster Text-to-Speech System award
April 21, 2008
STR-SpeechTech has been selected as a finalist for the 2008 VIATeC
Annual Technology Awards. STR's StarCaster®
technology was chosen for the category of Innovative Excellence
– Process or Product. A gala awards evening honouring the
companies will be held on May 15, 2008.
January 30, 2008
Four more StarCaster® ATIS systems have been sold and installed
at U.S. Air Force Bases. Sales of StarCaster® ATIS systems continue
to grow as word of mouth on the many benefits of system makes
its way through the military.
October 12, 2007
STR announces the release of its latest dual-language StarCaster®
ATIS (Automatic Terminal
Information System), now available in Spanish. The new system
has already been purchased by two airports in Argentina. The system
has all the same essential features of the English-only version,
and now has the capability of broadcasting ATIS messages in English
and Spanish consecutively. or English on its own. StarCaster® ATIS
is a cost-efficient, superior-quality COTS hardware and software
package used to create and transmit weather and airport information
to arriving and departing aircraft.
August 21, 2007
STR has been awarded two contracts for their StarCaster® ATIS,
to be installed at the U.S. Army Airfields at Ft. Riley
and Ft. Drum. Both systems have been successfully delivered.
August 7, 2007
STR has been awarded a contract for two StarCaster® ATIS systems
for airports in Iceland. Keflavik International Airport
and Reykjavik Airport will both be receiving the StarCaster® ATIS
with data link capability.
May 5, 2007
StarCaster® ATIS has been purchased by the Reina Beatrix
International Airport in Aruba. Installation will be later this
year.
April 25, 2007
StarCaster ATIS has been selected as a finalist for Product
of the Year at the VIATeC Annual Technology Awards. The VIATeC
Technology Awards celebrate excellence in Vancouver Island’s
technology sector. It’s a unique event for hi-tech companies
to showcase their accomplishments within BC’s fastest growing
technology region. The Awards evening will be held in Victoria
on May 23, 2007.
January 27, 2007
StarCaster ATIS systems have recently been purchased by more Civil
Aviation airports, including Alexandria International Airport,
Eastman Heart of Georgia Tower, Mather Airport.
March 1, 2006
STR confirms the success of their presence at ATC Maastricht Feb
14-16, 2006. STR has strengthened its efforts in the European
market and the company is pleased with the response to their product
offerings. "Buyers are happy to know there are lower-cost, higher
quality products easily available to them from North American
suppliers."
October 2005
STR-SpeechTech announces two of its StarCaster® ATIS (Automatic
Terminal Information System) systems have been purchased by the
U.S. Army. The U.S. military has now purchased over 20 StarCaster®
ATIS systems to provide critical weather and airport information
broadcasts to pilots.
September 2005
STR-SpeechTech has won a contract with the B.C. Ministry of Transportation
to provide the Ministry with an automated Forecast Broadcast System
(FBSYS). FBSYS is an IVR (Integrated Voice Response) system that
provides weather forecasts to Ministry and Maintenance Contractor
staff via telephone.
April 2005
STR-SpeechTech announces the successful completion of StarCaster®
TWEB System installation and deployments at Automated Flight Service
Stations (AFSS) in the FAA Alaska Region. The system, using STR's
proprietary high quality text-to-speech technology, automatically
expands coded weather data and generates TWEB (Transcribed Weather
Broadcast Service) forecasts, which are broadcast via radio to
pilots by the FAA AFSS. FAA Alaska's TWEB system is similar to
the HIWAS systems operating at AFSSs in the lower 48 U.S. states.
The TWEB forecasts include surface winds, visibility, weather
and obscuration to vision, sky conditions, mountain obscuration,
and low-level wind shear. A synopsis is also provided, describing
weather systems such as fronts, high/low pressure centres and
freezing levels affecting a route. Installations at the Kenai,
Fairbanks and Juneau AFSSs were completed in April 2005.
January 17, 2005
STR-SpeechTech will be attending the ATC Maastricht Conference
and Exhibition Feb 1-3, 2005. This confirms the company's need
to expand their presence into the international Air Traffic Control
arena. ATC Maastricht is the world's leading Air Traffic Control
event, held in Maastricht, Netherlands each year. STR was nominated
for the Innovation award for their StarCaster® Automated ATIS System
at last year's conference in Maastricht. However, this will be
the first time exhibiting their products and technologies at the
show.
Up until now, STR has focused its efforts on fulfilling the automated
broadcast requirements of the North American aviation industry.
STR has recently noticed that the global market requirements are
rising up to the high-quality technology offered by the StarCaster®
Automated Text-to-Speech System.
STR will be exhibiting four of their newest products, including
a new version of the StarCaster® VOLMET system and two language
versions of the StarCaster® Automated
ATIS System. The StarCaster® VOLMET system was installed at
CFB Trenton in Ontario, Canada in July 2004, and is used by the
military to broadcast aviation weather to military aircraft across
Canada and various European sites.
STR will be demonstrating their products at Stand 824 so please
stop by to say hello.
August 31, 2004
STR-SpeechTech announce the installation and deployment of a new
StarCaster® TWEB system for the US FAA. The FAA Alaska Region TWEB
system automatically generate TWEB (Transcribed Weather Broadcast
Service) forecasts, which are broadcast to pilots by the FAA at
Automated Flight Service Stations (AFSS) in Alaska. The first
installation occurred at the Kenai AFSS, and the second and third
installations will occur at the Fairbanks and Juneau AFSSs by
the end of 2004.
July 30, 2004
STR-SpeechTech and their partner ARINC announce the installation
and deployment of 5 new StarCaster® ATIS systems for the U.S. Air
Force. StarCaster® ATIS automatically creates and broadcasts critical
weather and airport information to aircraft via radio 24x7. Seven
more systems are scheduled for installation at various U.S. Air
Force bases by the end of 2004.
July 12, 2004
STR announces the deployment of their StarCaster® VOLMET Automation
System at CFB Trenton, used by the military to broadcast aviation
weather to military aircraft across Canada and various European
sites as of July 7, 2004.
February 11, 2004
STR has been awarded a contract with DND Canada to provide a VOLMET
Automated Weather Broadcast System at CFB Trenton, using STR's
StarCaster® Text-To-Speech technology. The VOLMET broadcast is an international
broadcast of aviation weather to commercial aircraft approaching
the Atlantic Seaboard. STR also provides automated VOLMET broadcasts
in Gander, Newfoundland and New York using the same StarCaster® Text-To-Speech technology .
At the deployment of the CFB Trenton VOLMET system,
STR will provide all automated VOLMET system in North America.
The standardization of the broadcast is a great benefit to pilots
as all broadcasts will be produced by a single voice for a clear,
consistent broadcast.
February 5, 2004
STR is pleased to announce their nomination for the Innovation
Award at ATC Maastricht, the world's leading ATC (Air Traffic
Control) Conference. STR was nominated for their StarCaster® Text-to-Speech
ATIS system, which uses the StarCaster® Text-to-Speech technology.
StarCaster® ATIS allows ATC personnel to automatically create,
monitor and broadcast ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information Service)
messages to pilots before arrival and departure. The awards highlight
the contributions made towards safer skies and capacity enhancements
within the airspace management industry. STR is very proud to
be recognized for their efforts in the world wide aviation arena.
STR Awarded Contract with FAA to Automatically
Generate Forecasts
November 21, 2003: STR-SpeechTech Ltd. has been awarded a contract
with the US FAA to provide a system that will automatically generate
TWEB (Transcribed Weather Broadcast Service) forecasts, which
are broadcast to pilots by the FAA at Automated Flight Service
Stations in Alaska. The system provides pilots with a continuous
broadcast of weather information. The StarCaster® TWEB system
will replace the existing system, a very labor-intensive service
that up until now was manually recorded by FAA personnel. The
new system will use STR’s StarCaster® Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology for
message broadcasting. The StarCaster TWEB System will automatically
collect, filter, sort, verify and store text data, and then automatically
process the text data into voice output ready for broadcast. The
StarCaster®StarCaster TWEB System is a proven, cost-effective solution that
will reduce the FAA’s cost of maintaining the TWEB service. The
TWEB system in the FAA Alaska Region is similar to the HIWAS (Hazardous
Inflight Weather Advisory Service) provided in the lower 48 U.S.
states. The StarCaster®StarCaster TWEB System will reduce the FAA's cost
of maintaining the TWEB service through more efficient use of
labour resources, as the FAA personnel will no longer be required
to provide the labour-intensive TWEB recordings. The system will
also provide standardization of the TWEB recordings, since they
will be produced by a single voice that will be clearly understood
by pilots.
IDS5-StarCaster® ATIS Interface
Systems Atlanta, Inc. (SAI) and ARINC announce the successful
interface of SAI's IDS5 data display system with the StarCaster®
ATIS system supplied by ARINC to the USAF. The StarCaster® product
was designed and developed by STR-SpeechTech, Ltd., utilizing
STR's StarCaster® Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology for message broadcasting.
The interface has been installed and operationally proven at McGuire
and Wright-Patterson USAF bases. At these sites, IDS5 shares a
common workstation and display with the StarCaster® ATIS, which
is launched from within IDS5. Cooperative engineering efforts
have automated dataflow from IDS5 to the StarCaster® ATIS system for
updating the ATIS code. This product integration has resulted
in cost savings while streamlining ATC operations and reducing
controller workload.
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