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MacSpeech, through a cooperative effort with Philips, has debuted its natural speech recognition product for the Macintosh.
MacSpeech, a developer of continuous speech recognition technology for the Macintosh platform, worked with Philips' software engineers to tailor the FreeSpeech 2000 recognition engine for the Macintosh. iListen is MacSpeech's first dictation product, using the FreeSpeech engine.
"As one of the leading speech technology providers worldwide, Philips is committed to continuously expand the application areas of speech recognition, regardless of operating systems and platforms," said Ron van den Bos, president and CEO of Philips Speech Processing. "We are excited to work with MacSpeech, a specialist in speech recognition for the Macintosh world, to bring state of the art speech recognition technology and applications now also to the Mac community."
Speech recognition technology from Philips is designed to meet a wide array of needs, facilitating the use of applications and functions such as word processing, navigation, and scripting through the...