Clarity to Deliver Noise Cancellation Technology for Bluetooth Enabled Automotive Platforms

-- Global Auto Supplier to Use Clarity's Award Winning CVC(R) Technology for its Bluetooth Enabled Automotive Telematics Platforms for Premium Hands-free Communications and Command and Control --

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Oct. 18 -- Clarity Technologies Inc. (http://www.claritycvc.com/ ), the leading independent provider with the technology, expertise, focus and services to deliver a superior solution for improving the audio quality and performance of voice-based communications, announced today at the SAE Convergence conference held in Detroit, Michigan that global automotive supplier Visteon Corporation will use Clarity's CVC(R) (Clear Voice Capture) software technology for its Bluetooth enabled hands-free cellular access systems being supplied to automotive manufacturers throughout Europe, Asia and the US.

The use of Clarity's "CVC(R) - Clear Hands-free" CHF software portfolio includes Clarity's CVC(R) (Clear Voice Capture) technology for noise suppression and echo cancellation. Clarity created its CVC(R) - CHF product specifically for Automotive and Telematics customers. In standardized telecommunications testing, Clarity's software always scores one of the highest and is flexible enough to be included on multiple platforms in addition to having the smallest footprint in the industry.

In the automotive industry, Clarity Technologies' CVC(R) technology is in production or available in products for automotive equipment in-car cellular handsets and aftermarket hands free car-kits.

"Our award winning CVC(R) software has been selected by 5 of the top 6 automotive nameplates in the world for hands-free phones. We believe that Visteon, known globally as a leader and innovator of advanced digital signal processing technologies for audio, is taking a leadership position in the communication audio path. We expect the relationship will bring the highest level of voice quality and speech recognition accuracy in the industry and we expect to see some extremely novel deployments of hands free products in consumers hands in the very near future," said Raymond Gunn, Clarity president and CEO.

About Clarity Technologies and ClarityLabs

Established in 1998, Clarity Technologies Inc. develops and delivers software and services that improve the audio quality and performance of voice- based communication products and systems. Using its expertise and voice extraction technology, Clarity solves voice quality and performance degradation issues for today's complex audio environment, regardless of hardware, audio interface, operating system or speech recognition applications.

Clarity has 20 technology patents either awarded or pending, more than 300 years of technical and commercial experience in the digital signal processing field of audio voice communications, and has been recognized by industry influencers like Speech Technology Magazine, IEEE Spectrum, Telematics Update and the AVIOS Board at the Speech Developers Conference as delivering superior voice enhancement technology. Additionally, Clarity is the only associate member of the Bluetooth SIG that provides noise and echo cancellation technology.

ClarityLabs is a services division of Clarity Technologies Inc. and provides its customers with the ability to evaluate, select and integrate speech recognition technology for voice-based applications in addition to providing embedded services and developing an independent and objective voice quality certification process.

For more information, please contact Tom Houy, vp marketing (tomh@ClarityCVC.com) or 248-409-1400.

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