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July 2 Meeting Announcement
Philips
Speech Processing and Troubleshooting
Night
It's summer (El Niņo willing),
it's July, and we have another double header. Philips
will be here to demonstrate their new voice recognition software and hardware. Voice
recognition is going to be a hot computing topic over the next few years, with products
like Corel's WordPerfect 9 incorporating speech recognition. Philips was the first company
to develop natural speech recognition technology for PC-based applications. This
groundbreaking advance allows users to speak as they would normally, without pausing
between words. The company's Microsoft Windows based product line includes the new FreeSpeech 98, a speech recognition
program that combines online natural speech recognition for dictation of documents with
user control over many popular Windows based applications. You can create, edit, or format
documents and take control of your Windows environment by speaking directly to your
computer once you've installed the software. It's easy to use, and supports Office 95 and
Office 97 as well as many other popular PC applications. FreeSpeech 98 comes with a
customizable vocabulary (ConText) which is designed to facilitate the creation of
"correspondence" documents such as business letters, personal letters, memos,
short notes, email, etc. It starts with 30,000 words, including the most common terms,
phrases and names, and can be easily customized to a maximum size of 64,000 words.
FreeSpeech 98 will learn and adapt to your voice as well as to your dictation style. A
built-in tuner gives you the ability to analyze existing documents on your PC for words
that you want to add to the vocabulary. A patented dictation playback with synchronous
highlighting allows you to proof-read your text quickly and easily. Falsely recognized
words can be replaced by choosing an alternative from a list, simply
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