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From: bovik@eecs.nwu.edu (James Salsman)
Subject: Re: Which speech recognition package to choose?
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Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994 05:35:00 GMT
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In article <CIx3GC.22x@cygnus.com>, Doug Evans wrote:
> I ... need to invest in some speech recognition
> package (sigh).  I need something with the calibre of DragonDictate
> (and will invest that much to get it, if necessary), but the faq didn't 
> mention any others (that I could tell - maybe I misread some of the blurbs).
> I spend most of my day hacking.
>
> So, I'm looking for comments regarding the various reasonably high quality
> speech recognition packages out there (macros + large dictionary).
> One person I talked to did his thesis with DragonDictate and seemed to
> have a slick emacs set up.

The August 2nd MacWeek described "PowerSecretary" from Articulate
Systems Inc.  You will be looking at a ticket in the US$5,000
neighborhood including a Centris or Quadra AV.

A.S.I.'s address is:
600 W. Cummings Park, Suite 4500
Woburn, MA  01801
(617) 935-5656
FAX:  935-0490.

> The platform isn't too important.

You mentioned Emacs -- will Alpha do?

> Many thanks in advance.  Please reply via email and I'll summarize if there 
> is interest.

I am interested.  The FAQ compiler should be interested, too.  I tried
to reply by e-mail and it looked like your header read "Reply-To:
poster" instead of "Followup-To: poster".

:James Salsman
::Bovik Research
