Surf these sites: 2001 Hits the Home -- Voice recognition software (with product names HAL2000 etc.) for Windows 95/98 that supports air conditioning, telephony, infrared, Internet, X-10 and security - for use in home systems. Site gives audio examples of the interactions possible. Agent Speech Technologies -- Uses Microsoft''sŪ Agent technology to bring an animated character to your desktop to perform specified voice command tasks for you. Requires several downloads of Microsoft components for trial. Answers For Executives. -- Fast loading, informative site addressing typical questions executives might have about speech recognition for offices and companies. Contains product reviews, installation guidelines, provocative analysis of the industry for people who would rather use voice technology instead of typing. Commercial Speech Recognition -- Site name a bit misleading. It is a broad collection of site links to speech recognition companies, services, products, magazines, trade shows, books and online resources with a brief personal summary of each. Conversa Conversational Computing Corporation -- Sells application specific speech enabled products. Current products include a version of Internet Explorer which responds to voice and an office messenging system. DIGA-ME.net -- Develops products that interact with speech recognition, internet and WAP technology for the Portuguese and Spanish- speaking markets. Website has a flashy personal assistant demo. DSP Group, Inc. -- Supplier of speech recognition hardware for telephone applications. Dragon Systems -- A worldwide leader in PC and MAC speech recognition. Offerings include desktop and mobile dictation, telephony, vertical market add-ons and developers'' tools. Grover Industries, Inc. -- Provides command and control applications for internet and desktop contexts. IBM Software - Speech Recognition -- Big Blue''s ViaVoice offerings in the desktop continuous speech dictation arena. Competes with Dragon, Lernout & Hauspie and Philips. Has mobile dictation and telephony products as well. Announced July ''99 continuous speech for the Apple Macintosh products. Free Linux SDK. IMSI Software -- IMSI Utilities Group licenses IBM ViaVoice technology to produce their own line of "VoiceDirect" dictation software. Lernout & Hauspie -- An international leader in advanced speech and linguistic solutions for computers, automobiles, telecommunications, embedded products, consumer products and the Internet. Acquired Kurzweil, partners with Microsoft and Intel. High powered in telephony and language translation, trying hard to catch up in consumer products. Literacy Center, LLC -- Assists individuals with literacy goals through evaluation, educational programming, and assistive technology such as speech recognition technology. MobileThink -- Specializes in developing WAP-based solutions that are integrated with Internet information systems. Natural Language Recognition -- Simplis, Inc, a new site providing "natural language" speech recognition interface designed to simplify access to existing programs. First offering simplifies Microsoft Outlook. Trial software download. PGPfone -- Pretty Good Privacy Internet Phone allows encrypted talking over a network. Philips Speech Processing -- FreeSpeech 2000 is Philips'' latest entry to the burgeoning continuous speech dictation market. Although the software does not quite have the human factors features of, say, Dragon, it does have multi-lingual recognition for UK English, French, German, Spanish, Italian. Includes an SDK for speech enabling custom applications. Russian speech database -- Russian firm offering a large collection of .wav files containing Russain speaker samples on CD. Useful for voice and speech recognition research. Speak Freely for Windows -- An Internet phone program for talking to someone over a network, i.e., a voice chat program. No banner ads! Has encryption hooks, "answering machine," Unix/Linux versions. Free software download includes C++ source code. Also has facility to run your own phonebook addressing server so that you can find out who else is on-line just like the "commercial" chat programs. Integrates with ICQ. Good voice quality. Very popular. Speech FX -- An ongoing speech recognition project for the Apple Macintosh, currently concentrating on enhancing command and control. Speech Recognition News and Studies -- TMA Associates publishes Speech Recognition Update, an industry newsletter on the business, products, markets, and companies in speech recognition, text-to-speech, and speaker verification. The site contains headlines and recent news, as well as descriptions of TMA conferences and market studies in voice recognition. Speech Technology Center -- Russian organization providing unusual variety of speech processing products and services for R&D, voice recognition, voice verification, noise reduction in speech signals, forensic examination, signal analysis, logging and communication channel protection. SpeechTEK -- Largest speech technology business exposition in North America. Last show was in New York City October 26, 1999. Titan Technology -- Leading Russian organization engaged in developing speech recognition technology. Voice Applications, Inc. -- Knowledgeable and un-hyped web site explaining business applications of speech and voice technology.
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