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From: Hosea <0428870@tucson.princeton.edu>
Subject: Re: Has anyone worked w/Verbex, Dragon, or IBM?
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In article <1994May3.194030.12161@cs.brown.edu> cs141043@cs.brown.edu (Wey Ting) writes:

>	Exactly, PE400 is a hardware based solution, so it is not as
>flexible a development tool. ICSS however is a software based solution
>without any run-time license charges, so developers don't have to pay
>royalties for their applications. 
>
Ummm.  I believe IBM charges $250 a pop for run-time licenses.  The developers
kit is cheap ($80)...I think they are looking to get paid with royalities.
I agree that it is quite good... on a dx2-66 or pentium with plenty of
memory (16meg min).  Considering that you have to invest a grand in hardware
(above and beyond the 'basic' 33mhz 486 8meg setup) to get it running well,
it is comparable to PE400 in price. (PE400 will run on anything).
>>
>
>	The speed of ICSS is quite good, but I believe the new version
>they are working on now would be much better.
When will it be ready?  Sounds great. 

I also have some interesting news to report on ICSS -- it works fairly well
over the telephone, which I found surprising given the bandwidth cut.

If they continue developing it, ICSS could provide the speech-engine for alot
of ground-breaking telephony technology...




