Newsgroups: comp.speech
Path: lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!cat.cis.Brown.EDU!brunix!cs141043
From: cs141043@cs.brown.edu (Wey Ting)
Subject: Re: Has anyone worked w/Verbex, Dragon, or IBM?
Message-ID: <1994Apr27.161818.8714@cs.brown.edu>
Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
References: <CouJ6I.L5w@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 16:18:18 GMT
Lines: 32


>I am trying to get info on continuous speech systems which I want to
>encorporate into a program I am writing in Visual Basic.  I have
>looked at Covox, but was not impressed with the low reliability.
>
>I plan to use this on a 486 based PC running windows.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Ken

Hi Ken,


        In my opinion, IBM ICSS has the best performance, adding the fact
that it is a speaker independent, continuous speech system.

        A company by the name of A&G Graphics have developed a Visual Basic
Custom Control for interfacing with the ICSS engine. It is called Custom
Voice(TM) which comes with a Grammar debugger, Parser API, and other
additional feature. I believe they are going to release their beta in
a few days. You can try calling them to sign up. Try calling (617) 491-2869

        I don't believe any other speech recognition engines have
a Visual Basic interface, so you would need to make complicated
Windows API calls. =)


- Jane


