Voice Recognition Software

Lets your Macintosh understand what you say, giving you a new dimension for interacting with and controlling your computer by voice. You don’t even have to train it to understand your voice, because it already understands you, from your very first word. You can speak naturally, without pausing or stopping, and even add your own words. Speaker independence—you don’t have to “train” the software, continous speech—you can talk naturally without pauses between words, flexible vocabulary that can be customized. Text- to-speech: have your computer speak the alert messages that appear on the screen, 26 different voices to choose from, including specifically designed for Mexican Spanish, adjustable voice rate. Download from Apple if not on your system disk.

ArithmeticTalk

Allows one to do addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication by voice. Designed for grades 1-5. Entry format is just like a text book. Requires MSWord™97. Metroplex Voice..

Conversa Messenger

Whether in front of your PC or on the run with your cell phone you can access e-mail, voicemail and faxes by voice. The perfect desktop messaging system for home or small businesses. No training required - Conversa's proprietary speech engine understands you immediately. With continuous speech recognition, you can talk naturally. Windows 95 or Windows 98.

Conversa Web

Voice-activated Web browsing and navigation - Just say any text link to "click" it. Say basic functions like "Go Back," Scroll Down," and "Refresh Page." No need to train the system. Conversa Web understands your voice and words immediately. Saycons activate dropdown boxes, pull-down menus, radio buttons and check boxes. Enter URLs and text fields by voiceWindows® 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 .

Dragon Naturally Speaking Essentials

An affordable introduction to continuous speech recognition for users age 9 and older. A vocabulary of 250,000 terms and more than 160,000 activewords, multiple user support.

Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred

Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred users will be able to dictate directly into Microsoft Word. Additional features include: support for a virtually unlimited number of users, text-to-speech, playback of recorded speech, hands free mouse pointer control with MaxeGrid, and MMX technology.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional

Dictate naturally into your computer at up to160 words per minute, use custom macro commands to insert boilerplate text, launch applications, fill out forms, and perform other complex tasks with a spoken word or phrase. Also available are Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal Suite and Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical Suite with specialized dictionaries.

Dragon Naturally Speaking Standard

Continuous speech recognition, supports virtually all Windows® applications, vocabulary of 250,000 words and more than 160,000 active words, navigate, format, and edit text by voice in Microsoft Word 97 & 2000, Corel® WordPerfect® 8 & 9, GoldMine® 4.0, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft WordPad, and Microsoft Chat 2.1 and 2.5, multiple user support.

Dragon Naturally Speaking for Teens

The first continuous speech recognition product specifically for teens. Has an easier user interface, easy-to-read documentation, and comprehensive on-line help to make the product easy and fun to use. Special vocabularies and voice models allow for the highest level of accuracy for young speakers.

Eloquently Stated

A Document Creation Assistant specifically designed by physicians for the purpose of producing medical records. Using voice recognition software, sophisticated database tracking, and extensive yet understandable Insertables, you can create the most 'Eloquent' of medical reports in less time than you currently spend dictating.

The Eloquent Physician™

Enables the physician and other health care providers to create accurate, comprehensive, detailed, and personalized clinical notes, medical records and correspondence, includes over 500 insertables of medical terms, diagnoses and procedures commonly used by most physicians, voice-enabled so that the practitioner has the option of utilizing it with state-of-the-art voice activation technology such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking™ or a combination of the mouse and keyboard, also functions as a data base manager and report generator.

Realize Voice

Voice command software for Win95/NT that uses Microsoft's Whisper speech recognition engine. It's very, very good (although it is not a voice dictation system like IBM's US$99 ViaVoice). You don't need to train InteractiVoice, although those with accents or speech impediments can train the software to improve accuracy. It can open, close and switch windows, click OK or Cancel, open your Address book or email -- even learn to open and close apps or documents you specify. The speech recognition is speaker-independent, which means no training is required, and is continuous so that there is no need to pause between words

Interactive Voice Assistant (IVA) from Wizzard Software

Over 22 Personal Assistants to chose from supporting over 40 of your favorite applications and online services. The assistant will appear on your computer screen and talk to you. Slip your headset microphone on (included), and you can tell your personal assistant what to do in plain English. Send, reply and dictate your e-mail all using your voice. Works with Hotmail, Outlook, Eudora, Outlook Express, Netscape, Microsoft Exchange, AOL, CompuServe, MSN and more. Search the Internet and visit your favorite web sites. Play 3 games against your computer using your voice. Bombers, 15 Squares, and Tank Battle

MathBrailleTalk

MathBrailleTalk allows teachers of the visually impaired to voice mathematics using the Duxbury Braille Translator. The voiced text and math emboss or print. This saves hundreds of keystrokes per lesson and relieves the teacher of having to remember all of those keystrokes.

MathTalk

MathTalk is a voiced math program that allows one to voice mathematics from grade 6 through Ph.D. It works with either MS Word or WordPerfect for word processing and toggles to MathType for the technical math processing.

MathTalkDeluxe

MathTalkDeluxe is a voiced math program that allows one to voice mathematics from grade 6 through Ph.D. It works with Naturally Speaking Professional.

MathTalkPro

MathTalkPro is Scientific Notebook voiced. An all purpose math program with Maple and graphing capabilities. There is a Nemeth Braille filter available for Braille.

Micro IntroVoice and Micro IntroVoice II

A complete voice input/output system which provides voice recognition of words with an accuracy of better than 98% and unlimited text-to-speech. Micro IntroVoice listens to command or data input, then responds by sending keystrokes via the serial port, and text to the onboard synthesizer for audio prompting and verification. From large networks - to the smallest hand helds, Micro IntroVoice's compact size and powerfulfeatures make it the ideal voice processor for any operating environment. MicroIntroVoice provides DOS compatibility for use with IBM AT, 80XXX and compatibles.and may also be used with OS/2, UNIX, DEC, dumb terminals, emulators , or custom OEM applications.

Philips FreeSpeech 2000

Talk to your computer and see your words appear. Dictate into Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, Netscape, Eudora, Lotus Notes--virtually any program. Speed work with voice macros--no need to dictate the same text over and over Share the software with other users--each person can store their own separate voice files and personal added words Dictate numbers, weights, and prices naturally--the program formats them automatically. Dictate in Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, and French--these languages included free. Optimized for Pentium III. Includes headset microphone

PowerSecretary

PowerSecretary is a personal free form speech dictation system which comes in three basic versions: PowerSecretary MED (medical vocabulary) Edition, PowerSecretary Power Edition, and PowerSecretary Personal Edition for WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, ClarisWorks, and FileMaker Pro. It enables you to enter text and issue commands to your Macintosh application simply by speaking. With its 120,000 word dictionary, it enables users to dictate text accurately at up to 45 words per minute. The Personal Editions are designed to operate exclusively with the particular standard application for which each is named.

VoiceType 2 from IBM

This flexible speech recognition software program is designed to input text and control DOS-based applications (such as word processors, spreadsheets, and databases). VoiceType 2's adaptive learning capability responds to each user's speech patterns. Multiple user speech files are supported on a single system. VoiceType 2 includes a large vocabulary that allows for up to 7000 user-specified words and commands, and an 100,000 word backup dictionary that aids in word prediction and spelling accuracy. There are built-in voice commands for controlling many popular applications and DOS, as well as on-line, voice accessible documentation.

ViaVoice MIllenium Pro from IBM

Uses continuous speech to control and navigate the desktop, applications, and the Internet. Input, edit and format text using "Natural Language Commands" in Microsoft Word 97 and 2000, Microsoft Excel 97 and 2000 and Microsoft Outlook 97, 98 and 2000. Dictate directly into messaging, e-mail and chat room applications. Create voice navigation macros using Navigation Macro Creator. Specialized Topics include: Cuisine, Chatters Jargon, Business & Finance and Computer. Proofread your documents with the ViaVoice Outloud text-to-speech feature. Optional Legal and Medical Dictionaries.

ViaVoice Standard

Fast text entry using natural, continuous speech. Easy-to-use speech recognition technology for talking naturally to your PC to create and edit documents. Automatic "Analyze My Voice" feature - learns and remembers how you speak. Demo available for download.

ViaVoice Advanced

Advanced Acoustic Model, enhanced correction model and personalized Attention Words can make you more productive and more efficient. Specialized vocabulary topics for Business and Finance, Computers, Chatter's Jargon and Cuisine help to increase your performance
when dictating in these subject areas.

ViaVoice Personal

Supports up to two million active vocabulary words, limited only by hard disk space. Customize and expand the base vocabulary by adding new words, ViaVoice Outloud text-to-speech feature to read text to you. Demo available for download.

ViaVoice Mac

Create a Personal Voice Model for each system user, "Analyze My Voice" teaches ViaVoice your speech patterns. "Analyze My Documents" teaches ViaVoice the context in which you use certain words and phrases. Create macros for commonly used expressions.Use Apple PlainTalk® technology to read the text of your documents aloud. Say voice commands and dictation interchangeably, without stopping dictation or requiring an attention word). Natural dictation of numbers, dates, times, measures, and prices. Multiple ways to correct and edit text.

VoiceEZcad

VoiceEZcad is AutoCAD voiced. The program will work with version 13 or 14. Developed in cooperation with an AutoCAD certified training center. Forget the keyboard, the mouse and remembering the keystrokes, voice all of the capabilities in AutoCAD.

WinVoice

WinVoice software converts Micro IntroVoice from DOS to Windows.

WhyType™ Hands-Free

Create work processing documents, E-mail, spreadsheets, faxes, presentations, etc., all by voice. Text or numbers are immediately and legibly entered into your favorite software, features a 180,000 word integrated vocabulary with specialized phrases and terms, Internet access, file management, faxing, and e-mailing features are also included, forms are combined with voice macros. By "filling in the blanks" you can significantly decrease the time you spend dictating standard text.

WhyType Legal

Features a 180,000 word integrated vocabulary with specialized legal phrases and terms. Additional words can be added quickly and easily to this extensive base. Macros and scripts allow you to bring up forms and records with simple voice commands. File management, faxing, and e-mailing features are also included.

Why Type Medical

Features a 180,000 word integrated vocabulary with specialized medical phrases and terms, macros and scripts that allow you to bring up forms and records with simple voice commands, file management, faxing, and e-mailing features are also included.

Older Products

These older products may be found at some resellers on the web. If you have an older computer or prefer discrete speech input, they may meet your needs.

Dragon Dictate for Windows/DOS (Singles, Personal, Classic, and Power Editions)

DragonDictate is a large vocabulary, speaker adaptive voice recognition dictation system capable of recognizing up to 120,000 words. It allows free form dictation into most text-based applications. It allows full mouse movement as well as text and numerical dictation and complete formatting, all by voice, completely hands free. DragonDictate uses industry standard third-party sound cards. Special add-on vocabularies for the Classic and Power Editions are available for professionals in medicine, law, business, journalism, and high tech.

Kurzweil VoiceCommands

Kurzweil VoiceCommands is a continuous speech, command and control product for Microsoft Word (97 and 7.0). It uses L&H's natural language processing technology to offer a simple and flexible speech interface to users of speech recognition. It can improve your productivity by automating routine tasks, making obscure features of Word more accessible, and by replacing time consuming sequences of mouse and keyboard actions.

Kurzweil VoicePlus

Kurzweil VoicePlus is a full-featured, voice recognition system that combines discrete speech dictation with continuous phrase command and control and enables voice control of common Windows applications. VoicePlus, with its 30,000 word active vocabulary, is appropriate for home or home/office workers who want to improve their use of Windows software applications by integrating voice, mouse, and keyboard input.

Kurzweil VoicePro

Kurzweil VoicePro is a full-featured, voice recognition system that combines discrete speech dictation with continuous phrase commands and control and enables voice control of common Windows applications. VoicePro, with its 60,000 word active vocabulary, is intended for professionals or corporate workers who have high end computer systems and want to improve their use of Windows software applications by integrating voice, mouse, and keyboard input. VoicePro enables the user to customize a large discrete vocabulary to satisfy their unique vocabulary requirements.

Choosing Voice Recognition Software

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