Info on LHSPF at Comdex:
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Continuous Speech Dictation Product Integrated with Continuous Speech Control & Command Product: ÿ"We're excited to see how L&H's new Voice Xpress product can extend the power of Word 97," said Dennis Tevlin, director of Office Marketing at Microsoft Corp., "by allowing users to incorporate voice commands and dictate text directly into their documents." ÿÿThe estimated retail price for L&H Voice Xpress and L&H Voice Xpress Plus, which include software on a CD-ROM, documentation and an Andrea noise-canceling microphone, are expected to each be under $100. ÿBoth products are expected to be available in early 1998 in over 3,500 retail locations in North America, including CompUSA, EggHead, Staples and Office Depot.
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This is going to be HUGE!!
Other Announcements:
--Voice Pager
ÿÿÿÿL&H demonstrated for the first time at its Comdex '97 press conference an early prototype of its Voice Pager application, which uses L&H's unique low bit-rate voice compression technology to replay voice messages on a tiny wireless pager terminal. The Voice Pager can accept, store and replay as many as 30 voice messages of up to 20 seconds each that have been transmitted via an ordinary telephone. The Voice Pager is being jointly developed by Oi Electric Co. of Japan (a company owned 35 percent by Mitsubishi) and NDC Voice Corp., a joint venture between L&H and National Dispatch Center. It is expected to be available in the Japanese market in mid-1998.
--Internet Translation Service
ÿÿÿÿL&H demonstrated at Comdex '97 the EnglishSpanish and EnglishGerman(a) versions of its machine translation technology, which will be the basis of its Internet Translation Service. The Internet Translation Service will convert Web pages and other digitized information into a user's native language quickly and easily using machine translation technologies and L&H's linguistic resources. L&H is planning to launch a pilot service by the end of the year, and a full commercial service for the professional market in the middle of 1998. The company is expected to introduce additional language pairs, such as Arabic, French, Japanese and Chinese in 1998.
--L&H Madison
ÿÿÿÿMadison is a versatile Windows application toolbar that lets a PC "talk" so users can, among other things, listen to their e-mail or proofread documents while doing other tasks. Madison not only reads text from any Windows application using a simple drag and drop operation, but can also verbally notify users of incoming e-mails and reminde users of scheduled appointments or tasks. Madison supports American English, British English, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish languages.
--Arabic and Japanese Support
ÿÿÿÿL&H announced today that its automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) technology for third-party developers will now support the Arabic and Japanese languages. These technologies are expected to be used in a variety of applications for the Arab and Japanese markets in 1998. The Arabic language support is the result of L&H's joint venture with SAKHR Software in Cairo.
--Customer Applications
ÿÿÿÿL&H is joined at its Fall Comdex '97 booth (P2214 in Pavilion no. 2) by two of its customers, Home Automated Living (HAL), a producer of home automation software, demonstrated its HAL2000 product which is currently shipping; and Registry Magic, a company specializing in conversational applications, announced and demonstrated Virtual Operator, an NT-based, computer telephony system that combines the 'human touch' of a live person and the efficiency of an auto attendant in one turn-key solution.
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