Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: Dragon,Kurzweil
From: paul.wilson@syncomm.com (Paul Wilson)
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Date: Thu,  7 Jul 94 06:03:00 -0500
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Ian, thanks for the reply.  While I didn't explore in detail the native
command and control features of either DICTATE or LISTEN, it appeared to
me that with DICTATE for Windows that at least the top menu bar
functions were under DICTATE's control when the demonstrator was showing
me the use of DICTATE within Word Perfect 6.0.  I believe I may have
even asked him whether sub-menu functions were supported without the
need to create voice macros.  Are you sure?

What is the Angoss Smartware system?  Did you mean that to use DICTATE
with a database manager such as ACCESS or PARADOX, one needs the Angoss
system?  Everyone I spoke with from Dragon indicated that no adapter
was needed for DICTATE. I'm interested in seeing whether one can use
a product like DICTATE in a time-efficient way to do data entry, query
formulation and execution (including native support for procedural
language commands and functions for that particular database software),
and report creation and execution.  I can't imagine any of these speech
recognition products are really close to having the kind of features
which would make them really useful for heavy duty database work, but
I'm curious just the same.

By the way, I saw in a recent issue of PC Week that there is an
organization with the name something like the Speech Recognition Windows
API organization (just a guess as to whether that is correct name).  The
article was referring to the fact that Word Perfect had just joined.  I
also keep seeing in articles referring to compaines like Dragon and
Kurzweil that they are partnering with companies like Word Perfect to
use their (Word Perfect's) API.  Have you heard similar things.

Would be interested in reading your article(s) when they are published
if they are in a publicationb I can get.

Cheers.

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