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From: winger@waterloo.hp.com (Lowell Winger)
Subject: Re: Speech recognition s/w, h/w
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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 19:37:51 GMT
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: DragonDictate works with any ordinary text based DOS program.  To the
: application, it looks like the input is coming from the keyboard.
 
:  Last I heard, DragonDictate costs around 9 or $10000.  A stripped
: down version for around $3500.  Its called VoiceType and is also sold
: by IBM.  It can run on smaller PC's, but has an active vocabulary of
: 7000 words.

I was interested so I called up: the cost of DragonDictate came down 
to $4995 U.S. as of September -- not bad.

Lowell Winger
