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To: Earlie who wrote (40005)12/18/1998 11:12:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
Here is a recent PC Magazine review

zdnet.com

It says that Dragon is the best but still gets only about 90% accuracy.



To: Earlie who wrote (40005)12/19/1998 1:54:00 AM
From: S. maltophilia  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 132070
 
<<I expect to see truly viable and reasonably inexpensive voice recognition
systems (actually what we really want are "dictation systems") in the next year or so.
I'm a customer for certain, but again, the younger generation may not be.>>

IMO, there will be a niche market for voice/dictation systems, but no more than that. If I'm wrong, we'll need to find stocks in makers of office partition soundproofing, or, perhaps, throat lozenges.