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To: Joey Smith who wrote (47204)	2/4/1998 7:03:00 PM
From: Joey Smith	Respond to of 186894

All: Another news item which will help Intel in the future. Speech recognition programs becoming more mainstream: joey Speech Recognition Tools Go Mainstream (02/04/98; 5:39 p.m. EST) By Andy Patrizio, TechWeb Speech recognition technology got a boost into the mainstream at the Demo '98 conference in Indian Wells, Calif., on Tuesday, where several advanced products and bundling deals were announced. Nuance Communications introduced Verifier, a security system that identifies callers by their individual voice characteristics. The system, set to ship in the second quarter, verifies both security codes and the individual's voiceprint. Nuance also announced a deal with Atlanta-based Syntellect, a provider of interactive systems for call centers. Syntellect is adding the Nuance6 speech recognition engine to its SpeechReco Server and Interactive Voice Response systems. SpeechReco recognizes both telephone keypad and basic voice input commands. Dragon Systems, based in Newton, Mass., announced two deals. The first, with Actioneer of San Francisco, will incorporate Dragon's NaturallySpeaking continuous speech recognition technology into Action Messenger, Actioneer's activities tracker, for quickly jotting down action items and other tasks. Action Messenger is available for palmtop devices such as 3Com's PalmPilot, and can synchronize items with personal organizers such as Lotus Organizer and Microsoft Outlook. The voice recognition-enabled version of Actioneer Action Messenger will be available later this year. Dragon's other deal, brings voice recognition to Corel's WordPerfect word processor. Corel competitor Lotus has already enabled its word processor, Word Pro, with ViaVoice, a voice recognition technology developed by its parent company, IBM, and Microsoft has enabled Word with Lernout & Hauspie's Kurzweil VoiceCommands. Dragon NaturallySpeaking will be integrated into WordPerfect Suite 8 and WordPerfect Suite 8 Legal Edition, due to ship this spring. Dragon isn't the only speech recognition vendor supporting Corel's word processor. SpeechTrieve Technology also said Tuesday that its SpeechLinks software is available for Corel WordPerfect Suites 7 and 8. Like the other voice recognition products, SpeechTrieve allows for continuous dictation into the word processor. SpeechLinks sells separately from WordPerfect Suite for $129.