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To: Dave Doriguzzi who wrote (1283)	7/7/1998 12:02:00 AM
From: Rick Slemmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2467

Dave: In response to the feedback portion, the author of that article later writes: Microsoft dumped something like $45 million into L&H last year. So I would expect Microsoft to eventually buy the company outright. Either that, or Microsoft will strike one of its famous deals -- you know, the kind where MS 'borrows' the voice technology with unlimited rights to use and modify that technology and resell it under its own name with no obligation to L&H. So we have a MSFT proxy. Now the question becomes: "When do we sell?" RS

To: Dave Doriguzzi who wrote (1283)	7/7/1998 1:51:00 PM
From: Goolie2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2467

Dave: I checked out the previous link, thanks for the post. What do you think of this post that was on that thread?: the "famous deal" is already done Posted by: jjfoley Date posted: Tue Jul 7 7:28:36 PDT 1998 Microsoft's Whisper engine has been released, incorporating some of the dialog boxes and "magic formatting" techniques you'll see in Voice Xpress, but decidely a different engine. Their (Microsoft's) continuous speech program has ragged edges but is serviceable for experimentation with continuous speech. Microsoft has said that a) they don't think speech is ready for prime-time b) they expect to bundle speech around 2000 c) they expect to use their own speech engine for that bundling, and everyone else (IBM, Dragon, L&H, resellers) can back off and design applications using their specifications and engine. --Jeff disclaimer: Though I work at Dragon, I speak as a user here rather than as a company spokesman