IBM is a leading provider of speech recognition applications and developer’s toolkits. On June 11,
IBM announced VoiceType 3.0 for Windows 95. This speech recognition product includes the
following product lines: VoiceType Control 3.0, VoiceType Dictation 3.0, Voicetype Simply
Speaking, VoiceType Dictation 3.0 Vocabularies and VoiceType Developer’s ToolKit 3.0. The
VoiceType 3.0 products include support for OS/2, Windows 3.X, Windows 95, and VoiceType
Connection for Netscape 3
VoiceType Dictation uses proven technology based on more than two decades of natural
text-to-speech IBM experience. VoiceType 3.0 provides a major improvement in how you work with
your computer.
VoiceType 3.0 for Windows is a highly-accurate, large-vocabulary speech recognition program that
converts speech to text. In many cases it can recognize words that are run together, slurred, or
partially obscured by background noise. The product includes a language model that understands
common word-pattern usage.
VoiceType 3.0 includes a general office vocabulary. IBM has optimized the size of the vocabulary for
performance and accuracy. This optimization, in combination with the language model, results in
very high accuracy and fast speech recognition rate.
VoiceType 3.0 allows the user to input data into the computer even when users are required to use
their hands and eyes for other tasks. Hands are not required to operate the keyboard, and eyes are
not required to monitor the text being entered. Any correction required can be performed later or can
be delegated to another user.
