LERNOUT & HAUSPIE DEBUTS "VOICE EXPRESS FOR LEGAL".Lernout & Hauspie (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :LHSPF)(EASDAQ See European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. :LHSP LHSP List Hosting Service Provider LHSP Left Handed Starting Pitcher .ED) (L&H), Burlington, Mass., a worldwide market leader in speech and linguistic technologies, products and services, has launched L&H Voice Xpress for Legal(TM)- Litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. Edition, the first legal dictation product to combine continuous speech recognition and L&H's industry-leading Natural Language Technology. Tailored specifically to the legal market, the product includes a specialized vocabulary of legal terms, phrases and acronyms and a language model designed to enhance accuracy for litigation-related dictation. By allowing legal professionals to use continuous speech and flexible voice commands for editing and formatting documents, L&H Voice Xpress for Legal can effectively reduce costly transcription expenses and improve office productivity. L&H Voice Xpress for Legal allows users to access much of the functionality in Microsoft(R) Office applications, including Microsoft Word 97/95(R), Microsoft Excel 97(R), Microsoft PowerPoint 97(R) and Microsoft Outlook 98(R). The product also enables legal professionals to dictate into and control virtually any Windows(R)-based application, including Corel(R) WordPerfect(R). L&H expects to offer additional L&H Voice Xpress for Legal specialized editions in the coming months, as well as products addressing the law enforcement and insurance markets. Today's introduction follows the recent announcement of a new line of consumer and business speech software, lead by its flagship L&H Voice Xpress Professional(TM) product, available in both US and UK english versions. "With over more than 900,000 attorneys in the United States alone, the legal market represents an excellent opportunity for L&H to offer speech solutions that positively impact the bottom line," said Paula Wheeldon, product manager of L&H's legal dictation products. "Our new L&H Voice Xpress for Legal family offers the widest range of functionality and is the only offering on the market that directly addresses specialized fields of legal practice." L&H Voice Xpress products incorporate Natural Language Technology (NLT NLT abbr. night letter ), a suite of sophisticated processes that allow speech-enabled products to intelligently interpret natural speech. NLT significantly improves flexibility and ease of use by letting users employ conversational speech to navigate in and between applications and execute formatting and editing functions. "L&H Voice Xpress for Legal gives legal professionals a powerful new tool for increasing productivity, reducing costs and positively impacting the bottom line," said Brad Schwartz, Principal of Schwartz & Associates, a Los Angeles based law firm specializing in the representation of emerging growth companies. "The most important factors for adopting new technologies at our firm are flexibility and ease of use, and we're very excited about L&H's new speech software." L&H Voice Xpress for Legal Features Key features of the L&H Voice Xpress for Legal product line include: -- Continuous speech recognition -- L&H Voice Xpress for Legal products allow users to dictate at a rate of up to 140 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" , achieving accuracy rates of up to 95% or higher with enrollment and continual adaptation. -- Natural Language Technology -- L&H's Voice Xpress for Legal line of products use patented NLT to offer a flexible, easy-to-use command language and modeless operation for editing and formatting documents. -- Comprehensive, customizable vocabulary -- L&H Voice Xpress for Legal is equipped with a specialized active legal vocabulary that can be expanded to 64,000 words (220,000-word backup vocabulary). Legal professionals can easily customize the vocabulary using the Vocabulary Extender function to add specific terms, names or acronyms. -- Text to speech capability -- the L&H Voice Xpress for Legal product can read documents back to users when issued a simple command. -- Talk and Go(TM) technology -- enables users to dictate to digital recorders. Dictated text can later be uploaded into your computer using L&H Voice Xpress for Legal. L&H Voice Xpress for Legal: Pricing, System Requirements and Availability L&H Voice Xpress for Legal - Litigation Edition is available now with an estimated street price of $1,499, which includes software on a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , documentation, and a deluxe quality noise-canceling microphone. Designed for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 95, Windows(R) 98 or Windows NT(R) 4.0, minimum system requirements include: Pentium(R) 166 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. processor with MMX (MultiMedia EXtensions) A set of 57 additional instructions built into the Pentium MMX chip for improved multimedia and modem performance by performing mathematical operations on multiple sets of data at the same time (see SIMD). (TM) (Pentium II recommended); Windows 98/95 or Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3 or later installed; 64 MB RAM Windows 98/95 or Windows NT; 190 MB hard disk space. VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions. or better monitor. 16-bit sound board from Creative(R) Labs or other SoundBlaster(R)-compatible, 16-bit sound boards. The L&H Voice Xpress for Legal line of products will be sold through qualified Resellers and VARs. Interested parties can obtain more information by calling 1-800-634-8723, #5100 or visiting L&H's Web site at www.LHS (filename extension) lhs - The filename extension for literate Haskell source files. .com. Those interested in becoming a qualified reseller can call Channel Sales at 781-203-5200 or 1-800-634-8723, #5200. About Lernout & Hauspie Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is a global leader in advanced speech and language solutions for computers, automobiles, telecommunications, embedded products, consumer goods and the Internet. The company is making the speech user interface (SUI Sui (swā), dynasty of China that ruled from 581 to 618. This short-lived dynasty reunified China in 589 after 400 years of division and laid the foundation for further consolidation under the T'ang dynasty. ) the keystone of simple, convenient interaction between humans and technology, and it is blending the best of human and machine translation technology, tools and services to instantly break down language barriers around the world. L&H's products and services originate in four basic areas: automatic speech recognition (ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See voice recognition and AVSR. ), text-to-speech (TTS (1) See text-to-speech. (2) (Transaction Tracking System) Software that monitors a transaction until completion. In the event of a hardware or software failure, it ensures that the database is brought back to its former state before the attempt to ), digital speech and music compression (SMC SMC Saint Mary's College SMC Santa Monica College SMC Solaris Management Console SMC Smooth Muscle Cell SMC Small Magellanic Cloud (also see LMC) SMC Safety Management Certificate (maritime shipping) ) and text-to-text (translation). For more information, call 781/203-5341. |
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