IBM's release last week of its ViaVoice speech recognition product At the same announcement last week, IBM also unveiled ViaVoice, a general-purpose continuous-speech dictation product ViaVoice is expected to carry a suggested retail price of $199, and it will ship by the end of August
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Client: IBM dictation software package gives computers a voice. Two years later, Nuance merged with ScanSoft.
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In 2003, IBM awarded ScanSoft, which owned the competitive product Dragon NaturallySpeaking, exclusive global distribution rights to ViaVoice Desktop products for Windows and Mac OS X. Two years later, in 1999, IBM released a free of charge version of ViaVoice. In 1997, ViaVoice was first introduced to the general public. Prior to the development of ViaVoice, IBM launched a product in 1993 named the IBM Personal Dictation System (later renamed to VoiceType) which ran on Windows, AIX, and OS/2.
In addition, user specific text files could be parsed to tune the language model. The recorded data was used to tune the acoustic model to that specific user. Users are able to improve decoding accuracy, by reading prepared texts of a few hundred sentences. It lasts for one hour or more and can be divided in many parts. The most important process for the correct use of this software is the so-called ‘quick training, and ‘enrollment,: it consists of reading many specific words and sentences in order to make the software adapt itself to the specific users' sound and intonation features. The latest stable version of IBM Via Voice was 9.0 and was able to transfer text directly into Word.
The current version is designed primarily for use in embedded devices. IBM ViaVoice was a range of language-specific continuous speech recognitionsoftware products offered by IBM. (Redirected from IBM VoiceType) ViaVoice Developer(s)Īugust 1997 23 years ago