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From: mwong@rad.verbex.com (Maurice K. Wong)
Subject: Verbex Listen for Windows
Message-ID: <1993Jun24.194411.16746@rad.verbex.com>
Sender: mwong@rad.verbex.com (Maurice K. Wong)
Organization: Verbex Voice Systems, Inc.
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 19:44:11 GMT
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In article <C8w7II.9Ky@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> kph2q@onyx.cs.Virginia.EDU (Kenneth Hinckley) writes:
>If you're interested in alternatives try out Verbex's "Listen for Windows".  I
>don't think (?) it's quite as powerful as Dragon Dictate (it requires
>training),
>but it costs a lot less and works great under windows.  I got it up &
>running in
>less than an hour.  They have both plug-in board and "stand-alone"
>serial port 
>versions of their recognizer.  
>
>The comandy number is 1-800-ASK-VRBX.
>
>
>Ken
>
>Disclaimer:  I have no association with Verbex.  I just think their
>product is
>cool.
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Ken Hinckley (kph2q@virginia.edu)
>University of Virginia
>Neurosurgical Visualization Laboratory
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>

I would like to point out the crucial difference between Verbex's
"Listen for Windows" and Dragon Dictate: the Verbex system is for
*continuous speech* recognition, whereas Dragon Dictate is for
*isolated word* recognition; in other words, for Verbex you can say
something like "Please open the second editor window" in one breathe
and in a natural manner, but for Dragon you have to say "Please
<pause> open <pause> the <pause> second <pause> graphics <pause>
window".  Of course, the pause between words can be extremely short,
but it does have to be there.  This distinction between continuous
speech and isolated word is crucial for some applications and less so
for others, depending on how and what you want to say to the system.

Maurice Wong
