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From: nicholso@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Melvin H. Nicholson YBH)
Subject: Re: Speech recognition s/w, h/w
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 23:10:17 GMT
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winger@waterloo.hp.com (Lowell Winger) writes:
>: 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

IBM??  Last time I talked to to CEO of Dragon Systems, she said she was
receiving affilliate funding of some sort from EXXON, not IBM.  Has
there been a transfer of control I didn't notice, or is IBM picking
up some marketing work?  (or was that just a mistake).

If Dragon Systems really was sold off/whatever by EXXON, did they dump
their other Voice project (VERBEX) too?

Mel

