Dragon Systems introduces natural speech solutions to new markets.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1997--Dragon Systems Inc., of Newton, Mass., today announced its corporate vision and new natural speech capabilities under "The Natural Speech Company" umbrella, at a press conference held at the World Trade Center. The company introduced a revolutionary breakthrough in continuous speech recognition with the announcement of its large vocabulary, general purpose, continuous dictation product, Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Additionally, a number of natural speech solutions were demonstrated, including Dragon PhoneQuery, a custom telephony solution, as well as speech output and the tools needed to build interactive dialogue systems. Dragon provides speech products for end-users and developers, as well as professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for developers who want to incorporate natural speech into their applications. "Dragon Systems Dragon Systems, Inc., was the company that created DragonDictate and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It was founded in 1982 by Drs. James and Janet Baker and bought by Lernout & Hauspie in 2000. is in business to humanize hu·man·ize tr.v. hu·man·ized, hu·man·iz·ing, hu·man·iz·es 1. To portray or endow with human characteristics or attributes; make human: humanized the puppets with great skill. 2. the interface between people and their machines through natural speech," said Jim Baker Jim Baker or James Baker, a relatively common name, encompasses a number of individuals, arranged in chronological order, by year of birth:
With its unprecedented breadth in tools, APIs, state-of-the-art technologies in major world languages in speech recognition, text- to-speech, digitized/compressed speech and natural dialogue, Dragon Systems offers its developers and integrators many customized solutions. Natural Speech Recognition Solutions -- Dragon NaturallySpeaking, General Purpose Natural Speech Dictation -- With Dragon NaturallySpeaking, users can speak general purpose text continuously and naturally, i.e., without pauses between words. Corrections can be done immediately or later without interrupting the user's thoughts. Dictation is readily handled by the extensive vocabulary. Almost anyone -- business professionals, writers and journalists, non-typists, telecommuters and employees of small offices -- can find themselves creating documents and reports with ease and accuracy. -- Natural Speech Data Entry -- Through the use of Dragon's developer tools solutions, users can complete forms quickly without typing. Forms designed for speech input are faster and easier to use than those designed only for the keyboard. Users can move to a field by simply saying its name and fill it in by voice. Speech synthesis speech synthesis Generation of speech by artificial means, usually by computer. Production of sound to simulate human speech is referred to as low-level synthesis. High-level synthesis deals with the conversion of written text or symbols into an abstract representation of or recorded speech can prompt the user for information and even repeat it, minimizing the need for proofreading Proofreading traditionally means reading a proof copy of a text in order to detect and correct any errors. Modern proofreading often requires reading copy at earlier stages as well. and verification. Speech-enabled forms created with developer tools or professional services from Dragon Systems, can speed form filling, reduce errors and simplify data entry. -- Natural Speech Dialogue -- Users are able to create interactive software that doesn't require typing or design a game that doesn't require keyboard commands Using the keyboard to navigate menus and buttons and select options. See Win Keyboard commands. . Users can speak continuous phrases and answer questions or issue commands. If a spoken request is ambiguous, the system can respond with synthesized speech or audio recordings to ask the user for additional input or clarification. For an enhanced interactive gaming experience, users can build an application that combines speech with keyboard, mouse and joystick (hardware, games) joystick - A device consisting of a hand held stick that pivots about one end and transmits its angle in two dimensions to a computer. Joysticks are often used to control games, and usually have one or more push-buttons whose state can also be read by the computer. input. -- DragonDictate for Windows and Dragon PowerSecretary for the Macintosh and MAC OS -- Users can control their PCs and Macs and work directly in their applications without touching a keyboard or a mouse. Users can dictate documents, send e-mail and even surf the Internet by voice. They can also activate menus, click dialogue buttons and easily move the mouse pointer See cursor. with just a word or phrase. -- Natural Speech Phrase Translation -- A voice-activated phrase book software can help travelers, tourist industry workers, customs officers customs officer n → aduanero/a, funcionario/a de aduanas customs officer customs n → douanier m customs officer or anyone who must regularly interact with people who speak another language. First developed for U.S. forces in Bosnia, Dragon's phrase translation system -- Multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. Information System -- allows people to naturally speak one of thousands of pre-determined phrases in their own language. A recording of a translation of that phrase is played with the correct pronunciation. -- Natural Telephony Solutions -- Over the telephone, speech is the only natural way to communicate. Dragon Systems is developing DragonTel speech recognition for use over the telephone, with natural features such as continuous speech, the ability to interrupt the computer's spoken output and the ability to recognize a caller who has called before and mentioned his/her name once. Dragon PhoneQuery, for example, is an over-the-phone database inquiry system that responds to naturally formulated spoken inquiries by spotting key words in them. -- Natural Use of Small Devices -- Users can issue commands and input data into small platforms, such as wireless devices, personal digital assistants, telephones and remote controllers, without pushing tiny keyboard buttons or learning a new way to write. Dragon Systems is developing speech recognition for small form-factor devices with limited memory, and has demonstrated the capability to enter digits and select items from a predefined vocabulary on a personal digital assistant. -- Natural Speech Developer Tools -- Developers can speech enable their applications for a more natural user interface. Dragon Systems' developer tools make it fast and easy to add natural speech capabilities to their applications. Applications based on Dragon Systems' technology can take advantage of more than a hundred thousand words, in each of seven languages, to create specialized vocabularies. -0- Dragon Systems Inc., the Natural Speech Company, is a worldwide leader in PC speech recognition. Dragon develops and markets high-performance, cost-effective speech and language technology tools that, in multiple world languages (American English American English n. The English language as used in the United States. Noun 1. American English - the English language as used in the United States American language, American , British English British English n. The English language used in England as distinguished from that used elsewhere. , French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish), enable users to create any text, issue commands and enter and access data simply by speaking. The company also licenses its technology worldwide through developers, distributors, resellers, OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) and ISVs (Integrated Software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package. Vendors). Dragon Systems ports its technology across multiple operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. -- from hand-held devices and personal computers to workstations, and is pursuing leading-edge research and development projects for computer and telecommunications applications. Founded in 1982, Dragon Systems is headquartered in Newton, Mass.; its Dragon Systems UK Ltd. subsidiary, which is focused on speech recognition for telephony and high-noise environments, is based in Cheltenham, England; Dragon Systems GmbH is located in Glashutten, Germany in the greater Frankfurt/M. area. -0- Dragon Systems, DragonDictate and PowerSecretary are registered trademarks of Dragon Systems Inc. NaturallySpeaking, the Natural Speech Company and PhoneQuery are trademarks of Dragon Systems. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. -0- Note to Broadcast: Video/Audio Available: Video footage of the press conference, interviews, plus additional B-roll will be fed from 2:30-2:45 p.m. (EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy ) and can be accessed through Galaxy C4, Transponder 10, NR Loop #102362 and Waterfront #1630. Audio is available to all radio stations by calling: 212-656-5121. CONTACT: Dragon Systems Inc. Renee L. Blodgett, 617-965-5200 x348 reneeb@dragonsys.com http://www.dragonsys.com |
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