ibm puts voice on palm

[Buddy Brannan]

Got this off another list, and thought others might find it of some interest:


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>> IBM Puts Voice on Palm
>> IBM announces ViaVoice version for handhelds, non-PC devices (like cars).
>>
>> by Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld
>> March 8, 2000, 6:55 a.m. PT
>>
>> At the Mobile Insights 2000 conference, IBM demonstrated its speech
>> recognition and text-to-speech technology on a Palm III personal digital
>> assistant. The Personal Speech Assistant prototype shown on stage was
>> attached to the back of a Palm III, similar to other Palm III add-ons.
>Inside
>> the PSA unit was the Embedded ViaVoice software, optimized for both the
>Palm
>> OS and an NEC embedded processor.
>>
>> In the demonstration, billed as only a technology demo, IBM official David
>> Barnes made numerous voice-command and control calls to the unit, which
>> responded by verifying appointments, taking short messages, and
>translating
>> selected words into Spanish and Japanese.
>>
>> Read the entire story at:
>>
>link http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/pcwtoday?ID=15638
>>
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