Tokyo, March 20,2006 — Yamaha Corp. (Head Office: Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Pref.; President: Shuji Ito) will begin extended operation of "SMAF GLOBAL" website for Latin America market. The "Yamaha SMAF GLOBAL" website has opened December,2002 to provide global support for the SMAF mobile phone ringing melody format. The company will begin providing advanced SMAF production tools at free of charge for Latin America content developers via the Yamaha SMAF GLOBAL website and to provide how-to information via the website.
Outline of the Service:
Name
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Yamaha SMAF GLOBAL
Details of operation
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Providing a variety of services to developers of SMAF content for SMAF-compatible mobile handsets being sold in regions throughout the world. The service will include free download of the advanced authoring tools, voice libraries, ringing melody sample files and game effect sample sounds on content production.
The Yamaha SMAF GLOBAL site is a support site for developers producing contents compatible with the mobile phone ringing melody format "SMAF (Synthetic music Mobile Application Format)" developed by Yamaha. Over 300 models of SMAF-compatible mobile handsets have already been sold in regions throughout the world, enabling many users to enjoy high-quality ringing melodies. Yamaha has been operating a site, "SMAF OFFICIAL", targeting mainly the Japanese market since early in 2001. "Yamaha SMAF GLOBAL," which will provide support for regions around the world, will incorporate download pages for the advanced authoring tools and libraries , "Hint and Tips" for quality SMAF content production as well as lists of known SMAF-compatible handsets sold in various countries.
Products to be Provided:
Yamaha will provide the following tools and libraries to support developers producing high-quality SMAF contents. The completed SMAF files can be played back on SMAF-compatible mobile handsets equipped with Yamaha's sound synthesizer LSI.
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SMAF converters
This tool enables easy conversions from MIDI files to SMAF files.
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SMAF authoring tools
An advanced authoring tool for SMAF files. Also enables stream copying and sound editing, and allows users to confirm the actual sounds using an emulator.
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SMAF Phrase authoring tools
An advanced authoring tool for SMAF Phrase files, which are ideally suited for sound effects and background music for Java/Brew games. Enables sound editing, and allows users to confirm actual sounds using an emulator.
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WAV File converters
This tool enables easy production of SMAF files from WAV files.
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Sound libraries
Enables a wide variety of FM sounds and Wavetable (PCM) sounds to be added to the authoring tool.
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SMAF Phrase sound effect libraries
Offers shooting sounds, missile sounds, and other contents in SMAF Phrase format for JAVA/Brew programmers.
SMAF:
SMAF is the abbreviation of Synthetic music Mobile Application Format
SMAF is the data format specification designed by Yamaha, which has a main purpose to define the data expression of the multimedia contents for mobile device. The basic portion of SMAF specification is designed to play the sound data conveyed by Yamaha LSI sound chip. It is now mainly used as an the ringing alert melody of a mobile phone.
SMAF also supports an extended feature which can define display sequences of texts and graphics. SMAF can synchronize the sound sequence with pictures and texts easily. With this feature, it is now used as data expression of the multimedia contents including Karaoke. Moreover, since SMAF has a very flexible structure like a container, SMAF has a specification which can be expanded for future use.
For further information, please
contact YAMAHA CORPORATION Public & Investor Relations
Group,
Public Relations Division
Mr. Mike Tanaka
