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Available exclusively at Staples
L&H VoiceXpress™ Ultimate Suite
First product to combine continuous speech recognition,
language translation, and voice-powered accessories
The L&H VoiceXpress Ultimate Suite combines the compa-ny's
award-winning continuous speech dictation software
with automatic translation in five languages and a suite of
voice-powered accessories for controlling the PC and navi-gating
the internet. The new software suite will be intro-duced
across the U.S. in April by Staples, the largest opera-tor
of office superstores with more than 900 locations.
Designed especially for business professionals, the L&H
Voice Xpress Ultimate Suite has a unique set of key features:
L&H Voice Xpress — Create, edit and format documents
in Microsoft Word 97/95, Excel 97, PowerPoint 97 and
Outlook 98. Users can dictate up to 140 words per minute
into virtually any Windows application with 95 percent or
greater accuracy. The customizable 30,000-word active
vocabulary can expand to 60,000 words.
L&H Power Translator Pro — Sentence-based transla-tion.
Users can translate
documents or email mes-sages
instantly in Lotus
Notes Mail, Microsoft
Mail, Microsoft
Exchange and
Microsoft Outlook.
TalkingTools™ —
A toolkit of voice-powered
accessories. Voice WebFinder™
lets users ask a natural language question like “What is the
population of the United States? and WebFinder will find an
answer. Voice Scheduler™ enables users to easily create
appointments and review schedules by voice. Voice
AddressBook™ lets users find contacts and send e-mail mes-sages.
Voice Calculator™ is a completely voice-enabled cal-culator.
Voice Clock™ finds the current time anywhere in
the world with atomic accuracy.
For more information about either of these products, visit
the L&H web site at www.lhs.com or call (800) 380-1234.
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A Talking Parrot CyberPet
L&H Talking Max™
The world's first virtual pet. Talk to him and he talks back.
You can even train Max the parrot to obey commands in dif-ferent
languages.
You've never seen anything like this on your PC before.
L&H Talking MAX™ is a hilarious talking pet for personal
computers. Raised on a virtu-al
parrot ranch especially for
computer users of any age,
Max uses L&H's advanced
voice pattern recognition
technology to understand a
speaker regardless of sex, lan-guage,
or accent. He then
learns to associate phrases
with specific actions and can
engage users in complete conversations.
L&H Talking MAX “lives” in a user's PC. After installa-tion,
Max is “born” on the desktop, named, and assigned a
personality: calm, lively, or hyperactive – any of which can
change depending on his mood. Users can teach Max
words, phrases, or complete dialogues. The Basic Training
Wizard allows users to quickly train the parrot to say more
than 50 phrases. The product also includes humorous con-versation
scripts on sports, weather, and politics.
Max can also learn to respond on cue to certain words
and to say specific phrases when he performs certain tasks.
For example, users can tell Max to fly into his on-screen
feeding room for a snack, enter the bathroom for a bath,
and even draw the shower curtain to relax in the tub. As a
bonus, users can also convert L&H Talking MAX into a
screen saver that will peck “holes” in the computer screen,
paint pictures, and all the while keep up a lively banter.
At any time, users can check on the parrot's mood, age,
weight and educational progress. If he's sick or depressed,
it's probably because the user failed to feed him a balanced
diet of porridge and bananas, or maybe made his bath water
too hot or too cold, or starved him for conversation and
interaction. It's not easy owning a parrot like Max!
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