Hi Steve,
NaturallySpeaking is music to the ears of those who hate to type. Once you tune NaturallySpeaking to your voice--an easy process--all you have to do is fire up and start talking. . .It's neat, and it works. . . .NaturallySpeaking is as close to magic as you get on a personal computer.
--Fortune Magazine-August 18, 1997--
Recognizing large-vocabulary continous speech, the way we normally talk, has long seemed a goal unreachable till some Jetsonian future. . .until now. Dragon NaturallySpeaking, from Dragon Systems, Inc. is the first program I have seen that really does let you dictate to a personal computer in an unforced way. . .[It] gives us the first real glimpse of a day when we will interact with our computers through speech.
--The New York Times - July 8, 1997--
revolutionary. . .innovative. . .will have impact on the industry.
--BYTE- June 4, 1997-
pcvoice.com
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...In the 1990's voice activated software, a.k.a. speech recognition, emerged as the vanguard in word processing technology. The early pioneers in this field were poorly received for a few reasons. First, the hardware on the market was not yet up to the task. For instance, Kurzweil A.I. introduced VoiceRAD when 386 processors were standard operating equipment but insufficient to drive the software. The result was a barely functional system which generated negative word-of-mouth about voice recognition.
...Kolvox is the only company which does not produce its own voice recognition engine or platform but rather embellishes the underlying engine from either Kurzweil, Dragon or IBM.
voicerecognition.com
>>Corel's foray into yet another unproven area where they intend to hype the potential in order to keep Cowpland in office, and appease the shareholders short term.<<
This will not appease me. All I'm saying is Voice Recognition software's time has come. It will never be of much use in programs like AutoCad or Photoshop but for a producer of a word processing program it is "must have."
Regards,
Kurt |
