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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (2)	5/21/2000 10:19:00 PM
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lhsp combined w/dragon systems , may cause antitrust fears? As reported, if Lernout, a Belgium technology company, completes the Dragon Systems purchase, it would own 84% of the U.S. market for speech-recognition software aimed at consumers. Analysts said this high level of concentration could be a problem for antitrust regulators. Currently, Lernout has about 36% of the U.S. retail market, second behind Dragon Systems, which has about 48%. But Lernout Chief Executive Gaston Bastiaens disagreed, noting that the retail market for voice-recognition software is only a small part of the overall speech and language technology industry, in which there is no dominate company. (MORE) DOW JONES NEWS 05-21-00 10:13 PM * end of story *

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