First Speech Recognition Product for Teens Makes Homework, Email and Chat Easier With Award-Winning Dragon Systems Software.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1998-- Dragon NaturallySpeaking(tm) For Teens, Released for Holiday Shopping Season, is Specifically Intended to be a Gift Adults Can Buy With Confidence Dragon NaturallySpeaking(tm) for Teens, the first product to offer industry-leading continuous speech recognition specifically for young adults aged 11 and older, was introduced today at AVIOS AVIOS American Voice Input/Output Society by worldwide speech recognition leader 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. , Inc. of Newton, Mass. This innovative new product features a new user interface with a new vocabulary and new voice models for speakers aged 11 and over. Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Teens was built with the help of school districts, educators, parents, and students. It can help the creative process by letting students focus on the content of their work, instead of the typing process. Homework can be done faster by eliminating the need to type. In addition, the new user interface makes it even more fun to use email packages and chat room software. "During the holiday season, Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Teens will give adults a choice gift. It is not a violent game, which some parents may appreciate. At the same time, it fills a market void by providing software that is more fun and cooler than many reference and utility products. Teens will find it valuable year-round," said Roger Matus, Vice President of North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Marketing for Dragon Systems. "Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Teens provides young adults with a great personal productivity tool that can make homework assignments, email, and chat easier and more fun," said CompUSA Executive Vice President of Merchandising Larry Mondry. Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Teens, based on the award winning family of Dragon NaturallySpeaking products, features a new user interface tailored to young adults. The interface includes a new Voicebar(R) for controlling the product and a colorful volume meter. New ease of use features include simpler elements for adding words, managing the dictionary, training the user's voice, correcting errors, training individual words, and customizing the vocabulary. It enables users to speak directly into virtually any Windows application A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well. See Windows. , and includes Dragon's widely acclaimed Select-and-Say(tm) functionality and full voice error correction support for Microsoft(R) Word 97, Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) 8, Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook (R) 98, Microsoft WordPad, Microsoft NotePad The text editor that comes with Windows. It is a very elementary utility, but gets the job done most of the time. See text editor and WordPad. (text, tool) Notepad - The very basic text editor supplied with Microsoft Windows. , and Microsoft Chat Microsoft Chat is a simple text chatting program included in the Windows NT-line of operating system, including Windows NT 3.x, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It utilizes NetBIOS session service and NetDDE. 2.1 and 2.5. Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Teens achieves high accuracy and fast performance by using the same continuous speech recognition engine found in Dragon NaturallySpeaking products. Independent reviews in major publications found the accuracy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking products to be between 95% and 98%. BENEFITS AND FEATURES --TRUE CONTINUOUS SPEECH -- Users speak naturally and at a normal pace without the need to pause between words. Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Teens allows users to dictate up to 160 words per minute Noun 1. words per minute - the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing) wpm rate - a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit; "they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour"; "the rate of change was faster than expected" and more. --WORKS IN VIRTUALLY ANY WINDOWS APPLICATION -- Users just point their mouse and click in an application. --DICTATE, EDIT AND FORMAT ENTIRELY BY VOICE -- Select-and-Say functionality allows users to select a word or phrase and make edits and error correction on the fly in Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. 97, Corel WordPerfect See WordPerfect Office and WordPerfect Corporation. 8, Microsoft Outlook 98, Microsoft WordPad, Microsoft NotePad, Microsoft Chat 2.1 and 2.5. --NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMANDS -- Easy-to-use and easy to remember commands can be issued in a natural way to edit and format text in Microsoft Word. --BESTMATCH(tm) TECHNOLOGY -- Provides improved accuracy recognition on systems with faster processors and larger memories. --LARGE VOCABULARY -- Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Teens has a total vocabulary of 230,000 words with 62,000 active. The vocabulary is tailored for young adults. Each word contains spelling, pronunciation and language usage information for high accuracy. --LEARNS AND ADAPTS TO THE USERS VOICE -- New training geared towards teen users takes less than a half an hour to complete and 6 features reading selections from 3001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel , and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the . , Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Roald Dahl (IPA: /ˌroʊld ˈdɑːl/) (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a UK novelist, short story author and screenwriter of Norwegian parentage, famous as a writer for both children and , Speech & Stage Fright stage fright Performance anxiety, see there by Mark Twain, Captain of Battery Park by Eugene Pool and Alice-in-Wonderland by Lewis Carroll among other popular selections. --INCLUDES HIGH QUALITY NOISE CANCELLING MICROPHONE -- A new headset with ergonomic features designed for teens is included with the product. AVAILABILITY, SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS AND PRICING Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Teens is scheduled to start shipping in October. Targeted to the consumer, it will be sold through purchase warehouse clubs, mass merchandisers, and retail chains. It has a list price of $59.95 US. Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Teens supports Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. 4.0. It requires a 133 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium Processor IBM compatible PC, 32 MB RAM for Windows 95, Windows 98 and 48 MB RAM for Windows NT. Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Teens supports a broad range of built-in audio and industry standard sound cards, including Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 and compatibles, as well as notebooks with built in 16-bit audio. Proprietary speech cards are not required for either desktops or portables. Users should refer to the latest compatibility list on the Dragon web site before they install the program: www.naturalspeech.com or www.dragonsys.com. 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 (including American English, British English, French, 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 Vendors). Dragon Systems ports its technology across multiple operating systems and hardware pl computers to workstations, and is pursuing leading-edge research and development projects for computer and telecommunications applications. Users should refer to the latest compatibility list on the Dragon web site before they install the program: www.naturalspeech.com or www.dragonsys.com. For pricing and availability information, customers can refer to the Dragon web site or contact Dragon Systems at info@dragonsys.com. For tech support issues, customers can call 1-617-965-7670 or email support@dragonsys.com. Founded in 1982, Dragon Systems is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts; 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 Munich, Germany. Dragon Systems and VoiceBar are registereds trademark of Dragon Systems, Inc. NaturallySpeaking, Select-and-Say, BestMatch, NaturallyMobile and the Natural Speech Company are trademarks of Dragon Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. CONTACT: Dragon Systems, Inc. Renee L. Blodgett 617/796-0348 reneeb@dragonsys.com |
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