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To: Steve Johnston who wrote (576)	4/19/1998 11:08:00 PM
From: A. Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1094

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 ===================================================== ...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

To: Steve Johnston who wrote (576)	4/29/1998 12:10:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 1094

Why would anybody want to keep such an incompetent individual employed at any level, let alone as CEO of this incredibly shrinking software company? It's truly a sad commentary on the business climate in that region that such utter incompetence could go unattended for as long as this has been. They have been hiding behind the shield of Microsoft's dominance long enough and it's really beginning to wear thin. Anybody company could purchasing a software product in Microsoft's market space and blame their failure on Microsoft itself. Doesn't Cowpland realize what a cheap substitute for achievement that is? That shallow, hollow shell of a man should do his shareholders a favor and retire.