Hey, You! Speak Up--Clearly--If You Want to Talk to Computers
The National Law Journal (p. B06)
Monday, June 8, 1998
THE JOKE ABOUT voice-recognition software is that it is about six months away from being truly usable--and always will be. Dictating to your computer "is like having your work transcribed by an eighth-grader," says La Jolla, Calif., sole practitioner Alfred Waldchen, who has used speech-recognition products for about two years. But the technology has made great strides lately. Mr. Waldchen, a former general counsel at a high-tech company, says it used to be like dictating to an uneducated eighth-grader. This week Corel Corp. begins shipping its WordPerfect 8 Legal Suite, which includes a continuous-speech dictation program. Microsoft says that next year its Office Suite will contain a voice-recognition component, according to InfoWorld, at www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/17/t21-17.26.htm To compare different programs, and chat about voice recognition, visit www.voicerecognition.com/
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